The ATLAS Leadership series is a collection of free educational webinars open to the public and specifically created to help improve the effectiveness of boards of directors and their leaders.

Maximizing Board Effectiveness
Frustrated with board meetings and your board not reaching its full potential? You’re invited to the next ATLAS Leadership Series webinar with James C. Galvin, renowned author of the book, "Maximizing Board Effectiveness." With his extensive experience, he’ll provide tools help you identify your board’s type, recognize common pitfalls, and confidently steer your board toward maximizing its contribution to the organization.
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Navigating AI Transformation: A Board's Guide
Join AI expert Tim Kapp as he offers invaluable insights into how boards can leverage AI capabilities for organizational success. Learn about AI’s far-reaching implications, strategies for embracing AI-driven change, and leadership practices for guiding their organizations.
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Get the Most from Your Board Retreat
Retreats are time- and labor-intensive, and expensive. Make sure you’re putting the right effort into board retreats to make them fun, worthwhile, and productive for all involved. It’s imperative to plan the best, most effective board retreat possible. But what exactly does that entail?
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Board Succession & Refreshment Planning for Continuity
From identifying potential successors to developing board-ready candidates to crafting an effective succession plan, there’s a litany of choices, opportunities, and unique considerations for boards and their directors.  
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Board Evaluations, Assessments & Annual Planning
Evaluating your board and developing an annual plan takes a careful balance of analyzing past performance, maintaining present-day priorities, and understanding coming challenges. BoardWise CEO Donna Hamlin provides practical frameworks for both.
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Evaluating ROI for Tech Investments
Explore ways to use ROI, then walk through an example to practice identifying costs and benefits, including important ones that are difficult to measure. Leading this session will be Karen Graham, a technology strategist with more than 20 years of experience in tech consulting.
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Cyber-ready Board Leadership
Join cybersecurity expert Chris Hetner, distinguished board director Betty Devita, and leadership guru Stuart R. Levine as they unpack critical cybersecurity regulations, proven strategies for cyber-readiness, and the makeup of an effective technology committee.
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AI's Future in the Boardroom
Ready for the sea change that AI will bring to board governance? Susan Stenson, CEO of Independent Audit, joins OnBoard co-founder and CEO Paroon Chadha and CPO Martyn Chapman for a discussion on the potential for AI to fundamentally transform the boardroom.
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Masterclass: The Role of the Board Chair
Dive deep into the pivotal role of the chair in the boardroom. Led by industry experts, Seamus Gillen and OnBoard CPO Martyn Chapman, this masterclass provides the knowledge, insights, and strategies you need to drive impactful change and lead your organisation to new heights.
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Get More from Your Board's Committees
Learn how to make committees the workhorse of your board in this exclusive lesson from Erik Hanberg, a non-profit governnance consultant and author of the best-seller "The Little Book of Boards."
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Building a More Diverse Board
Joined by Breen Sullivan and Kat de Haën, co-founders of the Fourth Floor (soon to be known as The Fourth Effect), a board seat exchange and director network for up-and-coming women directors.
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Build a Board Culture That Thrives
Brenda Lauderback, board chair of Denny’s Corp.; D’Anne Hurd, independent director and senior NACD faculty member; and Stuart R. Levine, independent director and CEO of Stuart Levine & Associates, discuss the importance of cultivating a strong boardroom culture.
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Improving Board Accountability
Join OnBoard co-founder and CEO Paroon Chadha and special guest Marion Macleod as they discuss how boards can track and demonstrate their accountability to the organisations they govern and its members.
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Transform Your Board’s Decision-making
Join OnBoard’s Chief Product Officer Marytn Chapman and author, board consultant and ValueAlpha CEO Seamus Gillen for a critical look at how boards can improve and accelerate decision-making performance.
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Modernizing Your Board’s Approach to Data and Technology
Wayne Sadin, veteran CTO leader, analyst for Acceleration Economy, and NACD-certified director, explores how boards and their leaders can identify threats, highlight opportunities, and plan for change in data and technology.
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Improving Board Diversity, Composition Planning, And Succession Efforts
New mandates, such as Nasdaq’s diversity reporting requirements and California’s board composition requirements, underscore the new focus on these important goals
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Barriers To Board Diversity
Increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a top priority for boards everywhere, but are organizations prepared for barriers that may interfere with implementing this critical component of board composition?
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A Road Map For Developing Board Intelligence
As boards across the world continue their nimble adaptation to digital-only meetings, many directors wonder: What’s next? And, how will these changes impact the future of board work?
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How Effective Is Your Board?
As Australian boards continue to face scrutiny over a raft of hot-button issues, their remits have gone well beyond performance and compliance. The board of today must be able to identify its blind spots and find the necessary mix of skills, expertise, and culture to rise above new challenges.
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Is Cybersecurity Your Board’s Achilles’ Heel?
A discussion between Mick Cobb, Chief Technology Officer at OnBoard, and Nick Merker and Mason Clark, Intellectual Property & Technology Practice lawyers at Baker & McKenzie LLP, as they discuss the board’s role in cybersecurity oversight.
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How Technology Impacts Boards
In this special edition of the ATLAS Leadership series, watch as OnBoard Vice President of Marketing Rashmi Bijai and Codex DNA Chief Financial Officer Jennifer McNealey reveal the latest data from OnBoard’s annual Board Effectiveness Survey for 2022.
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Choosing the Board's Duty of Foresight
Join OnBoard and Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAEfor a provocative learning session with fresh perspectives on how boards can choose the duty of foresight and integrate next practices to help them shape a different and better future.
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Right People Right Culture
we discuss the people aspect of improving board effectiveness, including how to selectively use words and language to engage fellow directors, improving diversity, and ensuring your board features the right skills and experiences to achieve mission success.
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Abandoning the Governance Status Quo
It’s been more than 100 years since Robert’s Rules of Order was originally published and many modern boards still operate using its playbook. However, when organizational agility and adaptation are valued, why does board governance appear to be impervious to change?
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Great Chairs Make Great Boards
Board governance consultant Stuart R. Levine is joined by a panel of experienced NACD.DC board directors to discuss the hard skills, soft skills, and essential practices it takes for effective board leadership.
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The Art of Asking Questions in the Boardroom
Asking the “right” questions in the boardroom fosters a culture of curiosity, inclusivity, and accountability, and drives better decision-making and outcomes for the board and its stakeholders. Join Lyn McDonell of The Accountability Group for an exploration of the interrogative.
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Featured Articles

A Conversation With Ram Charan: Boards That Lead
Ram Charan, author of the bestselling book Boards that Lead, discusses the shared leadership of boards and executives in a fireside chat with OnBoard co-founder and CEO Paroon Chadha.
How to Improve Board Diversity, Composition Planning, and Succession
Board expert and author Peter C. Browning explores improving board diversity, composition planning, and succession efforts in a fireside chat
Board Management Software, Remote Meetings Are Here to Stay
OnBoard surveyed more than 400 board leaders worldwide on how their boards performed in 2021. Here’s what they said.
The Right Technology Drives Improved Board Effectiveness
More than 400 board leaders to shed light on the areas in which boards thrived in 2021, where they struggled, and where they plan to go in the coming years.
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