Board Governance Program | Conference for Community Bankers

Address Current Banking Challenges: The Board’s Role

Effective leaders need to challenge conventional ways of thinking and empower their teams to identify their role in achieving business objectives. It is crucial for leadership to be agile and diverse to navigate the financial services industry. Get an overview of emerging industry challenges and how diverse boards can address them effectively. 

Build a High-Performance Board

An intentional and healthy board culture is a unifying force that builds trust and encourages candor. Boards must proactively adapt their own culture and use it intentionally to drive great performance. Building on the 2023 NACD Blue Ribbon Commission report, learn key recommendations on assessing, diagnosing and refining culture, and evaluating behavioral norms and responsibilities.

Focus on Corporate Governance, Board Succession and Liability

Every board needs a refresh on best practices. In this session, review board charters and structure, risk management with a regulatory focus and succession planning. Focus on the importance of board governance and diversity, and how regulatory scrutiny affects board composition and decision-making. Learn to mitigate director liability by focusing on practical strategies to enhance board effectiveness and compliance. 

Leave Nothing Unspoken: Risk Appetite

The worst risks are reactive rather than proactive and can lead to de-risking for fear of breaching unspoken guardrails. Learn about a clear risk appetite statement that gives management permission to operate within parameters – empowering boards and bank leadership to make decisions to balance risk versus avoid it.

Navigate Change in an Uncertain World

New forces in the banking industry range from digitization to AI to the tsunami of regulatory requirements, and they all add up to a need for savvy change management. Learn how boards and management must expand their scope of inquiry, recognize vulnerabilities and opportunities and navigate change.

Pose a Credible Challenge: The Board's Role

A fundamental responsibility of directors, whether they're board newcomers or veterans, is to pose a credible challenge to management. Learn how directors are harnessing this discipline and carrying it with them through all facets of board service, from training to committees to the board room, and applying it to all topics that may arise, from concentrations to capital to innovation.