BRINext SCHEDULE

Introduction and Welcome Networking

Check-in and Tips for Refreshing Your Board Journey

This workshop encourages the participants to check-in with one another as part of their ongoing journey to the boardroom. Seasoned directors share their tips and best practices to motivate participants and help them successfully navigate this stage of their board journey.

Governance 201: Navigating the Hard Issues

This practitioners' led session will provide much-needed guidance on all things board committees from oversight, to regulations, and overall duty of care, learn what you need to know.

Board Committees: The Evolving Responsibilities and Best Practices

Understanding the changing landscape of board committee responsibilities and best practices, this session will inform participants what to look out for from a strategic lense. 

A Director's Primer to Serving on the Audit Committee

This workshop will cover the general role and function of members serving on the board Audit Committee. Speakers will address what first-time directors should expect when serving on the committee, questions to ask, practices to ensure, etc.

Managing Disruption in an Ever-Changing Business Landscape

The only thing that is constant changes. The boardroom can be a microcosm of larger challenges confronting the business landscape today. From the pandemic to climate change and cybersecurity breaches, hearing from seasoned directors on ways boards can prepare and respond to and climate change are just a few of the disruptions affecting the world today.

Creating Transparency in the Compensation and Human Capital Committee

From growing competition for talent to a changing and shrinking workforce, the board Human Capital Committee is facing its fair share of challenges. Join our speakers in identifying compensation trends and innovative approaches to a growing body of challenges. 

Demystifying the Work in the Nominating and Governance Committee

This session will help participants gain a greater understanding of the growing work of the Board Nominating and Governance Committee. Panelists will share insights and know-how on the work of this committee, especially to advance board diversity. 

Competing Stakeholder Perspectives

Managing the expectations of key stakeholders is becoming increasingly challenging in today’s business landscape. Evolving practices are setting new standards for transparency, engagement, and participation. Hear from leading directors on this most timely of topics facing corporate boards. 

Tips to Excel Along Your Board Interview Journey: Hear from Board Search Professionals

This panel consists of board search professionals sharing behind the scenes tips to help BRI executives successfully interview for board opportunities. 

Mentoring Dinner

The Mentoring Dinner is designed to connect BRI executives with seasoned directors and board influencers that can coach them and exchange ideas to support their journey to and in the boardroom. 

The State of Latinos on Boards: Prospects and Strategies for Executives

Learning from the Activist Investor Playbook to Make You a Better Director 

Corporate governance experts will explore navigating investor activism. What do directors need to do to avoid having their companies be the target of activist investors? And, if they are a target, how do they build a game plan that is in the best interest of the company and shareholders? How are boards successfully dealing with activist approaches, including proxy contests? How is the activism landscape changing and why is board diversity increasingly part of the discussion? How can learning from case studies and the activist playbook make you a better director? What advice do our experts have for board-aspiring executives?

Fireside Chat with David Solomon and Megan Hogan

A conversation on the importance of board diversity, highlighting Goldman Sachs‘ diversity initiatives.

Mock Board Meetings: A Case Study on the Activist Investor

Corporate governance experts and scholars will facilitate a case study with BRI executives and explore what having an activist investor in a boardroom looks like, what it means for the board and what directors should do about it.

Closing Program and Featured Speaker 

Wrapping up the 2022 Spring BRI program, our featured speaker will reflect on how board-ready executives can create their game plan to guide their boardroom journey.