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    High Performance Boards

    Helping your board be its best

    On campus program

    High Performance Boards

    Helping your board be its best

    Location Lausanne

    Length 3-day program over 4 days

    Fee CHF 12,500

    Next program starts 26 February 2024

    Discover the best practices in board governance and enhance your board effectiveness

    Inspired by the latest research and drawing on more than 40 years of board education experience, IMD’s High Performance Boards is essential board member training for issues related to supervisory board performance and effectiveness.

    Together with peer board members and prominent chairpersons from around the world, you learn about successes and failures and explore best practices in depth. You also identify the strategies, structures and processes that make boards the driving force behind their company’s success.

    Join the leading Directors’ education program since 1977 and see how you can make a positive difference to your board.

    Optimize board performance

    Identify best practices and gain the tools to implement them to maximize board effectiveness.
    Foster a positive board culture

    Cultivate a constructive and collaborative board culture for enhanced governance.
    Ensure seamless succession

    Strategically plan and manage leadership transitions for long-term success.
    Navigate board crises

    Master crisis management techniques to effectively steer the board through challenging times.
    Manage risks and opportunities

    Identify and evaluate risks, and maximize opportunities through board involvement.
    Elevate your board’s strategic capacity

    Enhance the strategic capability of your board.
    Discover the learning journey
    You and your class

    High Performance Boards is for non-executive board members and chairpersons from medium- to large-sized private or public enterprises, non-profit organizations, foundations, or governmental entities.

    Your class is carefully selected to ensure a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience.  Read more about the admission criteria.

    72%

    BOARD MEMBER

    28%

    CHAIRPERSON

    51

    AVERAGE AGE

    26

    INDUSTRIES

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    The program has increased my effectiveness as a Chairman, and taught me the importance of setting the agenda and addressing concerns, maximizing the board’s time. The peer learning is of the highest caliber, especially when combined with an impactful mix of theoretical learning and real-world practice.

    George Vadakkekara Executive Chairman, Thejo Engineering Limited, India
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    90% of boards fail to be of real value to their executive teams. In these times of increasing complexity, boards are confronted with a multitude of new risks and challenges. The need for more sophisticated board governance skills has never been greater to adapt swiftly and effectively.

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    Didier Cossin Program Director
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    High Performance Boards series – A conversation with Michel Demaré.
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    Guest speaker session – The new digital landscape
    Next start & Fee

    Length: 3-day program over 4 days, on campus

    Very limited availability
    Dates
    26 Feb – 29 Feb 2024
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3-day program over 4 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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    Dates
    29 Apr – 2 May 2024
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3-day program over 4 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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    Dates
    17 Jun – 20 Jun 2024
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3-day program over 4 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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    Dates
    7 Oct – 10 Oct 2024
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3-day program over 4 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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    Dates
    25 Nov – 28 Nov 2024
    Location
    Lausanne
    Length
    3-day program over 4 days
    Price
    CHF 12,500
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