Date Posted: October 6, 2018

Presenter: Adam Epstein (Founder, Third Creek Advisors, LLC)
Level: Introductory
Length: 45 minutes
Class Format: Pre-recorded Video Seminar
Registration Fee:

Author of the #1 best-selling corporate governance book on Amazon, The Perfect Corporate Board, Adam J. Epstein is a former institutional investor who has advised dozens of boards, and has been featured in the WSJ, Bloomberg, and on Nasdaq Livestream and CNN.

Mr. Epstein has spoken globally more than 100 times in the last several years about corporate governance and interfaced with countless prospective public company board members.  Unfortunately, most of them have been unsuccessful in their searches, despite being highly qualified.  

This program fills a conspicuous void in the governance landscape; it provides extremely frank, actionable observations about the repetitive mistakes that keep prospective board members… off public company boards

Topics covered include:

• There are 1000s of qualified current/former operating executives, service providers, academics, and veterans looking for their first public company board seats
• However, the overwhelming majority of those searches are unsuccessful
• Dispelling some of the rampant misinformation that derails searches right out of the gate
• Most prospective board members are actually focused upon a market they’re all but mathematically foreclosed from
• The numbers dictate that first-time public company directors are likely to end up in a particular corner of the U.S. capital markets, but few are fishing in those waters
• Unfortunately, even those who are focused on that corporate ecosystem often don’t sufficiently understand its gating idiosyncrasies
• What it means to undertake a truly “intentional” board seat search, and why those candidates are more successful
• Rightsizing your expectations is a crucial precursor to a successful search
• Those candidates who eliminate these 5 key mistakes are on their paths to finding what could well be the best job they’ve ever had

Unlike many who speak about boardroom issues, Mr. Epstein is definitely not speculating.  Through his firm’s work, he is in Nasdaq- and NYSE-listed company boardrooms weekly and sees exactly how those issuers are choosing – and not choosing – new board members.

This program was developed by Mr. Epstein exclusively for BoardProspects members.