Boardroom Bound® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) national public service
that stands for better governance AND diversity in the boardroom.
We matriculate independent, diverse candidates from our
Boardology™ Institute and promote them for board service.
Mission: Fostering good governance, independence
and diversity in the 21st century corporate boardroom.
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Board Appointments! Boardroom Bound® has built an alternative pipeline that takes independent, diverse candidates into private/public boardrooms. We operate in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Washington, DC and are expanding into St. Louis and the San Francisco-Bay area in 2008. To See List of Appointments |
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St. Louis University – John Cook School of Business
Signs-on as an Alliance Partner
Boardroom Bound® welcomes the John Cook School of Business to our 35+ member Alliance Partnership.
The business school is hosting Boardology™ 400 – the Boardroom Bound Pipeline Seminar on campus March 13-14, 2008 to support the school’s AWL (Advancing Women in Leadership programs) initiative. Saint Louis University is a Jesuit, Catholic university ranked among the top research institutions in the nation. The Wall Street Journal listed SLU as one of the country's top 50 schools straight-A students are "scrambling" to get in to. The University fosters the intellectual development of over 12,000 students on campuses in St. Louis, MO and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi. Learn more about SLU at www.slu.edu.
Boardroom Bound Founder Issues $208 Challenge for 2008
December 7, 2007 - (Washington, DC.) Linda K. Bolliger, Founder, Boardroom Bound®, issued a Call to Action challenging those who want better governance, independence and diversity in the corporate boardroom to step-up and make a $208 financial contribution in 2008. “When everyone does a little, a lot gets done!, says Bolliger. Funds will be used to help the program expand the Boardology™ Institute. Request a donation form at bbinfo@boardroombound.biz.
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Post-Enron, corporate board service requires more independence in board members and needs a fresh perspective at the table to begin regaining the public trust lost in recent corporate scandals:
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Opportunities to make a difference. Teach others AND influence company
ethics
• Increased influence through extensive networking
• Compensation ranging from $5-45,000 annually – first appointment (The Conference Board 1999 Report)
Who Qualifies for Boardroom Bound…
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Those who are serving on their first corporate board
• People who are on the corporate fast track in leadership positions,
or who own their own firms
• Top advocacy group leaders and trade association officials; Cabinet
level and elected officials
• Those who have never served on a board but have business & leadership experience and aspirations for
private & public board service
Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom
Only 20 per cent of the world can actively remember America’s internal struggles with building the Nation’s human capital…the step necessary for the Nation to benefit from by being able to add diverse skills and talents into the workforce. Part of America’s challenge today is to build on the development of the diversity movement. And to begin to implement Diversity Best Practices in all phases of American life, especially in business in order to begin exchanging the business culture of the elite to the diverse generations to follow, which is…in corporate practices…the step that will move the Nation along into the next frontier of using its 20th Century investment in diversity to grow and prosper in the 21st Century.
By Arthur A. Fletcher, Ph.D., Linda K. Bolliger, M.A. and Sylvester E. Williams III, Ph.D.
Louis A. Holland, Founding Partner & Investment Strategist,
Holland Capital Management LP and the Lou Holland Growth Fund.
“I found it to be an excellent seminar…career altering experience for me and radically changed how I am managing my career strategy. The network of people that I was exposed to was priceless.”
Barbara Smoot, FSA - Vice President, In-Retirement Business Development, Nationwide Financial
Noted after attending the November 2-3, 2006 Boardology 400© Pipeline Seminar held during the League of Black Women’s Annual Conference in Phoenix