Jill Griffin’s Earn Your Seat on a Corporate Board: 7 Actions to Build Your Career, Elevate Your Leadership, and Expand Your Influence will take years off your learning curve.
Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge” author, veteran public-company board director and branding expert, Griffin has written the book that pulls back the curtain on the selection process and shows you how to land your seat.
The book provides seven succinct actions to take. It will teach you how to:
- Test Your Readiness for Board Service
- Craft Your Board Search Strategy
- Find Boards That Will Welcome You
- Attract Boards to You
- Network with Influencers
- Ace Your Board Interviews
- Vet Your Board Invitation
Griffin combines her extensive knowledge of the business world, personal branding, and years of personal board experience with advice from a multitude of wise counselors and experts to produce a book that offers a hopeful message to board aspirants and a practical guidebook to get there.
And, because women are invaluable to any board’s success, the book has a special strategy chapter that teaches the skills every woman needs to capture her seat.
Ready to turn your ambition into action and become a corporate board director? This book will show you how.