Trends in Board Leadership

Board work has become fashionable

Boards are becoming more active and more involved in business decisions. They replace their CEOs more often and take an active part in strategy making. Tom Jacobsgaard – an experienced executive and board member, currently CEO of the Board Leadership Society in Denmark (Bestyrelsesforeningen) – and CBS Professor Steen Thomsen – will introduce us to the dilemmas facing modern boards:

  • The board’s role in strategy setting
  • Replacing the CEO
  • The board as a team

Working with professional board members, Steen and Tom have developed a number of board training programs for Danish boards and their companies. Together they run all the CBS Executive Corporate Governance and Board Leadership Programs at CBS Executive. For those that are interested in the CBS Executive Board Leadership programmes, it will also be possible to speak directly to Tom Jacobsgaard about these.

After the presentation, we hope you will join us for drinks and light snacks.

 

About the Speakers:

Professor Steen Thomsen is chairman of the Center for Corporate Governance at CBS. He specializes in corporate governance as a teacher, researcher, consultant, commentator and practitioner. He can rightly be called one of Denmark’s biggest expert in the field of corporate governance and board leadership. His academic publications include some 30 international journal articles and 3 books on the subject. Please follow this link to read more about Professor Steen Thomsen or visit his website.

Furthermore, Professor Steen Thomsen teaches at the Full-time MBA program in Corporate Governance, and is the lead faculty for the Corporate Governance and Board Leadership Diploma programmes at CBS Executive.

Tom Jacobsgaard CEO of the Board Leadership Society in Denmark (Bestyrelsesforeningen), which is a non-profit membership organization that holds the mission to develop boardwork and enhance value creation in businesses and to provide state-of-the-art corporate governance and board leadership.

Further, Tom is the Program Director of all Corporate Governance and Board Leadership Diploma programmes at CBS Executive and has a long career as a professional board member.

 

Registration:

You are welcome to bring a guest for this MBA event. Please use the registration box above to register. The deadline is 24 March, 2015 at 10:00. Drinks and light snacks will be served.

Registration is on a first come first served basis but send us an email at apd.mba@cbs.dk to enquire about available seats.

 

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