Course description

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Course Outline

Understanding Governance as Leadership

We will explore a conceptual framework that proposes an approach to consequential and meaningful governance, starting by distinguishing a board’s ‘steering’ from its ‘rowing’ contributions.

Principles and Practices for Effective Governing

In this module, we will consider how to create the conditions for good governing in the boardroom, and continue building our conceptual understanding of governance as leadership by exploring the case of Gallaudet University.

Leading While Governed, Part I

In the first two modules, we focused on what your board can do to govern in a more meaningful and consequential way. In this module and the next, we focus mostly on the types of leadership you as an executive can exercise in order to help your board govern more effectively. We will also continue exploring governance as leadership, this time by returning to Gallaudet University as it prepares to hire a successor to its first-ever deaf president.

Leading While Governed, Part II

In this module, we will consider the executive challenges of leading alongside an engaged board, including the idea of ‘danger and opportunity zones; and prepare an action plan you can use to begin applying the lessons and insights you have found most important to you during the course.

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