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18th Annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference
The theme of the 18th annual Kravis-de Roulet Leadership Conference recognizes the critical leadership role that corporate boards can and do play. It will provide timely insights into current boardroom trends, best practices for leadership, and the major challenges facing leaders in the boardroom today. Is it possible to create a healthier balance of power between the CEO and the board? These are some of the critical issues and questions that this conference will examine.
We are witnessing a dramatic growth in the use of lead directors and in the appointments of non-executive chairmen.
- How effective are these leadership roles?
- Who among directors is best suited to play them?
- What are common dilemmas they pose to their incumbents?
Important shifts have also begun to occur in the leadership role of board committees.
- What practices facilitate genuine committee leadership?
- How can committees more effectively play their leadership role of
- Evaluating the CEO’s leadership?
- Choosing appropriate CEO successors?
- Evaluating their leadership as a board?
Regulations following the scandals of Enron and WorldCom have introduced layers of complexity to ensure greater compliance and oversight.
- How have these regulations changed boardroom dynamics?
- Have they helped or hindered corporate boards to lead more successfully?
- Have they altered a longer term concern about the health of the organization to a short term focus on compliance?
Boards and management face new opportunities and challenges from private equity groups, pension funds and shareholder activists.
- How should boards lead in these situations?
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