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Lab Description

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Good governance significantly reduces the threat of safety, legal, performance, and warranty issues that can affect your organization.
  • Strong and effective boards help ensure organizations can respond agilely to external environmental changes.

 

What is good governance? What are the duties, legal responsibilities, and ethics expected of board directors? How can your board respond agilely to external changes and make an impact? 

Dive into the essentials of board governance with Realize Strategies governance expert Jenn Fong. With years of experience in collaborating with organizations to analyze the practice, people, and dynamics issues underlying their governance problems, as well as helping governance teams bring the solutions to life and increase their effectiveness, Jenn will teach participants the "secrets" of effective governance practices and culture as well as workshop participant questions and scenarios.

Direct Access to Industry Experts

Our Live Learning Labs offer you direct access to our practicing industry experts. Bring your questions and scenarios to examine during our intensive workshops for direct feedback and advice from your instructor.

Our 3-hour workshop includes collaborative exercises and discussions, tangible takeaways, sector insights, and instruction by our experts in governance, leadership development, and organizational development.

Who Is This For?

  • Current, new, or incoming directors

  • CEOs looking to better understand how to work with their boards

  • Human resources and organizational design specialists from the private or public sector

Benefits For You

  • Understand what is good governance and effective leadership

  • Evaluate the duties, legal responsibilities, and ethics expected of board directors

  • Align board and organizational purpose, vision, mission, and culture

  • Explore key principles for effective governance and well-functioning Boards

Instructor

All of our instructors are experts in their fields and practicing consultants, bringing you the latest insights and best practices grounded in research and current trends.

Jenn Fong

Consultant and Senior Instructor

Jenn Fong is a governance professional who takes a people- and purpose-driven approach to her work. Her expertise includes board and director evaluations, governance restructuring, and governance policy development among others. She explores her client’s pain-points with a collaborative mindset, analyzes the practice, people, and dynamics issues underlying their governance problems, and helps governance teams bring the solutions to life and increase their effectiveness. Jenn has helped a wide variety of clients including small, medium, and large not-for-profits, crowns, regulated professional bodies, as well as societies/associations.

Lab topics

  • Understanding Governance

  • Board and Director Roles and Responsibilities

  • Key Governance Responsibilities

  • Board and Management

  • Culture and Dynamics

Open Sessions

Governance Essentials Lab (Fall 2023)

Oct 31, 2023 | 9AM - 12PM PT

Governance Essentials Lab (Spring 2024)

April 16, 2024 | 9AM - 11AM PT

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Private Workshops

We can bring our expertise directly to your team or one on one, in-person or virtually. Each workshop can also be customized to fit your team’s unique needs or structure.

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