Insights: Assess Your Board Culture

These articles provide an overview of strategies for conducting board assessments that include culture, examples of positive board chair behaviors, establishing inclusive board norms, effectively mentoring new directors, and valuing differences to proactively ensure longevity and carry your board into the future.

Small Steps Can Lead to Big Changes
This interview with Lori Nishiura Mackenzie highlights the work of this very playbook; a collaboration with the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab and the California Partner's Project. By highlighting the 'small wins' approach, this playbook attempts to begin to close the gap between inclusive teams and corporate boards in order to achieve a major cultural shift.

2022 RRA Global Board Culture and Director Behaviors Study
Russell Reynolds Associates has assembled a series of research papers covering crucial topics for executives to consider in improving their board effectiveness, chair leadership, and how boards have implemented inclusive practices to benefit their overall success.

2024: The Year of the Strategic Board
Boardspan provides 12 directly applicable strategies for ensuring that your board is proactive rather than reactive, ensures retention and longevity of positive relationships on boards, how to stay abreast of the current corporate climate, and how to prepare for the future of your board.

Conducting Effective Board Assessments
The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance presents practices for well-executed board assessments that can help provide real insights into how a board operates and how directors work with one another. Assessments that include both quantitative and qualitative aspects and lead to actionable takeaways are difference-makers for good governance.