ECSE-PBC Governance CPD Webinar Series

Leadership: What Makes a Great Board Chair

Summary/Purpose: Evidence of why ineffective leadership manifests in the wrong culture in the Board and the organisation and therefore delivers a Board that is not leading effectively and ultimately the impact will show on the bottom line, directly impacting the business’ long term sustainability.
The global financial crisis created evidence that compliance can tick the box and culture can destroy the business and not deliver the duty of care to the customer. Implications of culture are often felt globally, as felt in the aftermath of the BP Deep Water Horizon disaster.

Content: Stakeholders are at the mercy of all the leadership roles throughout an organisation. Some recognise this within the hierarchy and management of the company, but the Board seems to think that it is immune from delivering a negative impact on the business and its many stakeholders.
The session will cover how easy it is to lead ineffectively but importantly that it is totally feasible that change can occur with effective outcomes materialising very quickly. The difficult part is recognising what needs changing, accepting the change journey and ensuring that the actions taken will deliver the desired improved outcome of effective leadership.

Benefits: As humans we have a biased view on our abilities, it can range from being invincible, over positive, self-deprecating or completely undermining. We are all leaders in one way or another, we may be the Chair, be on the Board or work with the Chair, and we recognise, that from the “outside”, we can more clearly identify the strengths and weaknesses of a Chair than they are realistically able to do.
Learn how to self-assess against a balanced framework, how to respect challenge and support and recognise the value of peer learning or mentoring.

Who should attend: Board chairs, company directors, company secretaries, and chief executives.

Registration: The webinar will be delivered on March 16, 2022 at 12PM UTC-4. To register click here.

Your Facilitator

Sharon, who is based in the UK, is a Chartered Governance Professional and has been a Fellow or Associate of the UK Chartered Governance Institute for over 40 years.

Sharon is also a Chartered Director of the IoD and holds an MBA and a number of Financial Services and Regulatory qualifications.

She is on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Company Secretaries and Chairs their Membership Committee. She is currently the Chairman of the South African Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the Council of Foreign Chambers in the UK.

She is CEO of the Genius governance group of companies and runs foreign exchange risk management services to corporates.

Sharon listed her first company on the Stock Exchange and is responsible for the creation of a number of complex “software as a service SaaS” products. One range being a support to risk and compliance evidence, controls and management.

She lectures for the final Level 7 exam for Company Secretaries of the Chartered Governance Institute and lectures for the Corporate Governance Institute on their NED program.

Sharon has authored many pieces on governance focusing on the presence, impact and management of boardroom dynamics, speaks at international conferences, leads on governance webinars and runs workshops and case studies to support turnaround governance learning.