Board KickStarter Breakfast

Board KickStarter Breakfast- March 2015

Speakers: Anthea Green and Monique Conheady

Take away 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 NED.

• A common - but not the only - pathway is to join a a not-for-proft board, then a government board and then a commercial board.

• Don't be the Chair as your first NED role!

Feedback about the speakers:

• "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"

• "the speakers"

• "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"