Global Competent Boards Designation (GCB.D) and certification

This session helps directors deepen their oversight of integrity, ethical conduct, and corporate behavior in an environment where trust is increasingly fragile. Through real scenarios, directors examine where oversight often breaks down and how to strengthen the systems that protect reputation and culture.

Focus points:

• Strengthen board oversight of integrity risks that emerge in fast-moving or high-pressure situations
• Identify early warning signals of misconduct and weak ethical culture
• Clarify how boards can support management while maintaining independent judgment on ethical issues

This session equips boards to oversee insurability as a core governance responsibility. Directors explore what is driving rising premiums and shrinking coverage, how underwriters assess organizational risk, and how board decisions on people, operations, and strategy influence the company’s ability to secure and maintain insurance in an increasingly volatile market.

Focus points:

• Understand how insurers evaluate corporate risk and the signals they watch for at the board level
• Strengthen oversight of the company’s insurability, including emerging exclusions and gaps in coverage
• Anticipate how climate, cyber, litigation, and governance failures affect insurance availability and cost

This session explores how a clear, credible purpose strengthens strategy, risk oversight, and organizational performance—especially in moments of uncertainty.

Focus points:

• Connect organizational purpose to strategy and board decision-making in ways that define what the company will and will not do
• Surface the real drivers of resilience, competitiveness, and stakeholder confidence—and ensure they are understood and monitored at the board table
• Use purpose to guide difficult trade-offs, clarify priorities, and strengthen judgment in complex, ambiguous situations

Directors look at how expectations are shifting and how boards can engage with clarity, transparency, and confidence. The session explores approaches that help directors avoid greenhushing, greenwashing, and reactive communication.

Focus points:

• Prioritize the expectations that are most material to the organization
• Strengthen the board’s ability to support credible, consistent communication
• Navigate tensions between competing stakeholders without losing focus

Directors examine how supply chain risks have become strategic issues that shape cost, resilience, and trust. The discussion focuses on practical oversight of human rights, compliance, geopolitics, and operational continuity.

Focus points:

• Identify where supply chain risks concentrate and how they escalate
• Evaluate whether the organization has the visibility it needs across critical suppliers
• Strengthen board oversight of human rights, labor practices and regulatory exposure

This session focuses on the skills, behaviors, and structures that define an effective, forward-looking board. Directors explore what needs to evolve in board culture, information flows and individual preparedness to remain effective in a rapidly changing environment.

Focus points:

• Assess whether the board’s structure and skills match future needs
• Strengthen board culture, challenge and decision-making discipline
• Improve how information is prepared and consumed for better oversigh

Directors explore how geopolitical forces are reshaping markets, supply chains, regulations, and long-term strategy. Through practical exercises, the session focuses on how boards strengthen preparedness, challenge assumptions, and guide the organization when global dynamics shift rapidly.

Focus points:

• Build confidence in evaluating and governing geopolitical risks
• Use scenario thinking to improve strategic discussions and preparedness
• Strengthen risk information, reporting and escalation practices

This session focuses on how boards assess resilience and ESG-linked risks and opportunities -all of which influence credibility with investors, lenders, and stakeholders.

Focus points:

• Distinguish between noise and the ESG signals that truly influence financial and strategic outcomes
• Use ESG insights to enhance board foresight and improve the quality of strategic judgment
• Ensure the board oversees the right communication to avoid credibility gaps and build trust

Directors explore how climate and nature considerations are shaping business models, risk assessments, and fiduciary expectations. The session focuses on decision-useful insights rather than technical reporting.

Focus points:

• Understand how climate and nature risks affect resilience and opportunity
• Assess the credibility of transition plans and organizational readiness
• Integrate environmental considerations into core board discussions

Directors examine how technology, including quantum technology, AI and cyber resilience influence strategy, trust and accountability. The session focuses on what boards must understand and the questions that reveal whether management has a firm grip on digital risks.

Focus points:

• Strengthen board oversight of AI use, data governance and cyber readiness
• Identify vulnerabilities that often remain hidden until a crisis
• Improve the board’s ability to balance innovation with responsible oversight

The session brings a governance lens to human capital issues often overlooked at the board table - how culture actually shows up in behaviours, how leadership strength is judged, and how executive pay and incentives signal what the organisation truly values.

Focus areas:

• Identify the indicators that reveal true culture and leadership health
• Strengthen succession oversight and workforce planning
• Improve board conversations about wellbeing, performance and accountability
• Strengthen oversight of remuneration and executive pay using a modern outlook

Directors explore how board dynamics influence judgment, trust, and the quality of decisions, especially during pressure. The session focuses on behaviors; tone and the practical steps boards take to lead well in uncertain or volatile moments.

Focus points:

• Strengthen relationships, challenge and trust at the board table
• Improve decision-making discipline under pressure
• Understand how boards guide organizations through crises with clarity and steadiness