Advanced Governance: Strategic and Generative Conversation
Move beyond fiduciary checklists and unlock the collective insight, experience, and creativity of your board. Grounded in the Governance as Leadership framework, this workshop equips you to shift boardroom discussions toward the issues that matter most.
You’ll learn practical ways to weave generative and strategic conversations into your board culture, gain tools to foster thoughtful inquiry and consensus-based decision making, and discover how to transform routine discussions into meaningful dialogue that drives real impact.
Suggested Participants
Board members and senior staff (for example, Executive Directors/CEOs, Managing Directors or Operations Managers).
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:​
- Describe the three modes of governance
- Identify important fiduciary, strategic and generative questions to discuss as a board.
- Implement meetings tools that support complicated and complex conversations at the board table.
Benefits
- A creative space to discuss and address how board conversations could be.
- Signs that indicate to your board an opportunity to engage in a generative conversation.
- Reflection around how to create more space in meetings for generative and strategic thought.
Topics Covered
- Governance as leadership
- From oversight to inquiry
- Generative by design