Thanks to everyone who came along to the March Take on Board breakfast, and thanks in particularly to our fabulous speakers Anthea Green and Monique Conheady.
Key messages
- Use your contacts. You don’t need 300 of them, just five that matter.
- Develop a one page resume.
- It could take 6-12 months to find the right role for you, maybe more. Be patient.
- Assess your appetite for risk and do your due diligence on any organisation you are considering joining as a non-executive director (NED).
- A common – but not the only – pathway is to join a a not-for-profit board, then a government board and then a commercial board.
- Don’t be the chair as your first NED role!
Feedback about the breakfast
- Tips and hints from working directors
Hearing the real stories – strengths and weaknesses - Interesting speakers
- Two speakers and each with varied stories
- Hearing from speakers, especially their practical tips/experience
- Interesting speakers
- People speaking candidly from personal experience
- Speakers were both fantastic
- Great speakers – honest, forthright, practical
- Good presentations by both speakers and good structure having Q&A at end
- Passionate speakers – inspiring
- Fantastic speakers
