Thought Leadership | Board Directors & Chairs

Key insights from our nine-month Directors Development Program, a collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing to enhance boardroom effectiveness.

Drawing from experience working with boards and cybersecurity executives, explore insights to enhance your readiness to land your first board seat.

We gathered business challenges and top skills CISOs are tapping into to keep the organization safe from cyber-attacks while operating innovatively.

Egon Zehnder's insights on board readiness; key focus on corporate governance & ESG, tech's strategic importance, and women representation in boards.

Egon Zehnder appoints Charles Gray as Co-Leader of U.S. CEO & Board Practice with Lisa Blais to leverage global best practices, perspectives, & tools.

Physical disability is often overlooked when it comes to diversity discussions, and most boards are still at early stages of maturity on the topic. We gathered some of the UK's top board chairs for an open conversation on the topic.

In this e-book, Dr. Moudy Elbayadi, author of Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone, offers a concise and practical playbook for boards of directors to improve their understanding of cybersecurity issues and challenges and prepare for potential attacks.

Egon Zehnder's Global Board Diversity Tracker shows rapid progress in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and rise of female leadership in top ranks.

President Lincoln appointed three of his rivals to his cabinet. To outsiders, this seemed like a dangerous move, and that’s a profile in courageous leadership. Does this present a functional framework for building Boards – or not?

Six things CTOs and CIOs can do to prepare for board service.

Since the turbulent summer of 2020, significant strides have been made across the world to diversify boards. The next level of the work is to move beyond counting numbers to reaping the business advantages of balanced representation.

Progress has been made on getting more underrepresented minorities onto corporate boards, but this same level of progress hasn’t translated to committee chair and board chair/lead director roles.