Board-seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Boardroom

Board-Seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Boardroom is the first practical guide written specifically to help board-ready leaders and executives gain the knowledge, resources, and confidence to shape their personal ＂onboarding＂ program. Assess your experience that makes you valuable to a board-there’s more than you think. Shape this into a powerful outreach portfolio, such as board resume, online image, and personal pitch. Gain the targeted network and mentors you’ll need, especially your boss! Learn step by step how board searches really happen and how to master each stage. Prepare for the board interview and vetting process, and get ready for your first board meeting. With leads, links, checklists, and first-hand success stories, Board-Seeker spells out each step you’ll take into the boardroom-and beyond.

Ralph Ward is an internationally recognized speaker, writer, and advisor on the role of boards of directors, how ＂benchmark＂ boards excel, setting personal boardroom goals, and the future of governance worldwide. He publishes the online newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, and also edits The Corporate Board magazine. He is author of five acclaimed books on boards and governance, including 21st Century Corporate Board (1997), Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom INSIDER Guidebook (2000), Saving the Corporate Board (2003), The New Boardroom Leaders (2008), and Boardroom Q&A (2011).