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A practical guide to landing your first corporate board seat. Interviewing for First-Time Board Service: read successful strategies for meeting the unique challenges of interviewing for a directorship.

For over 18 years, Egon Zehnder has been tracking boardroom diversity around the world. The 2022–2023 Global Board Diversity Tracker captures the progress that has been made in 44 countries.

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?

At the board level there have been steady improvements in DE&I, 1 in 3 new hires being women and 27 percent of board seats being held by female directors globally, as found by our Global Board Diversity Tracker 2022-2023. Read about these three lessons to break barriers and advance female leadership in the boardroom.

In our work with boards around the world, we believe diverse boards lead to deeper discussions, more perspectives and better decision-making. In this article, we take a look at the board diversity landscape in Greater China and other countries and how gender diversity has impacted financial performance.

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.

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

Boards are making progress in representational diversity—slowly. However, most boards in the UK and around the world are still overwhelmingly white. To discuss this sobering reality, we partnered with the Executive Leadership Council to gather more than 40 board-ready executives (majority of those ethnically diverse in the UK) to share their thoughts on increasing visibility, getting noticed, appointed and integrated into boards.

We partnered with the Executive Leadership Council to gather more than 40 board-ready executives who shared their thoughts on increasing visibility, getting noticed, appointed, and integrated into boards.

25 early service corporate directors and four experienced board leaders talk about how to move from board member to board leader.

Egon Zehnder released its 2022-2023 Global Board Diversity Tracker, revealing corporate boards have made some progress on diversity, but inclusivity needs improvement.

A report released by Egon Zehnder has found that while boards are prioritizing sustainability, there is room for improvement for driving ESG agendas.