Hello, and welcome to this course on better boards make for better business. My name is Blair cook, and I'm a professional accountant by training. But I'm also a many time corporate and nonprofit director. I've also served in many rules as a chief financial officer. I'm a leading thought leader, and a professional and executive educator. This course is all about how to make your board of directors more effective.

Let me give you just a quick preview of the things that we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the directors and their roles and responsibilities. Then I'm going to talk about three board leadership roles that need to be present for you to be able to maximize the value of your board. Next, we're going to talk about how you set a very effective and efficient meeting agenda. Next, we're going to talk about ways management should be communicating the right information. The right way.

Then we'll talk about the board's role in setting the business strategy. And finally, to wrap things up, we'll talk about how do you maximize the value from your board of directors. This is a great course for anyone who is a director on a board, or someone who is an executive that reports to a board. I hope you'll join me in taking this course and I think you'll find that there's a lot of insights and ideas here that will help you in your next board meeting. My name is Blair cook and click on the first lesson to begin