Why do so many board recruitment drives end up with the same type of candidate, no matter how good the intentions going in?
High-performing boards tend to treat recruitment and succession as connected disciplines rather than one-off exercises. When boards do this well, the candidate pool widens naturally, but in periods of financial pressure and uncertainty, that discipline often quietly slips. The flexibility and inclusion gains organizations spent years building can go with it.
In this 60-minute session sponsored by Ideals Board, Amélie and Stéphanie from PWN London, alongside Jeanne from PWN France, will draw on PWN’s own experience as a federated organization to explore what genuine representation at board level requires.
They’ll discuss how organizations can build it into recruitment and succession planning rather than treating it as an afterthought.
