Leading Effective Boards and Meetings

Impact Boards EM is pleased to invite Chairs’ Circle members to an exclusive high-level webinar, Leading Effective Boards and Meetings, with speakers Professor Stanislav Shekshnia – renowned corporate governance expert, INSEAD Professor, and an active chair and board member of both public and private companies and Jens Harsaae – a Danish national who has been a fulltime non-executive since 2013 on the boards of companies in Tech, FMCG, Consulting and B2B sales and service.

This session is designed specifically for board chairs and senior board leaders who wish to deepen their mastery of board dynamics, decision-making and high-impact meeting leadership in today’s complex governance environment. Drawing on decades of global boardroom experience, the speakers will share practical frameworks, real-world insights and proven techniques that distinguish good boards from truly effective ones.

The discussion will be an engaging and dynamic conversation, combining thought leadership with practical, real-life boardroom experience.

Key themes will include:

• What makes a board genuinely effective

• The chair’s role in shaping board culture, trust and accountability

• How to lead high-quality board discussions and avoid common boardroom pitfalls

• Decision-making under uncertainty

• Maximising the impact of board and committee meetings

This closed-door session for Chairs’ Circle members only will be highly interactive and will offer a rare opportunity to engage directly with one of the world’s leading authorities on governance and board leadership.

Moderator:

Olga Pascault, Co-Founder and Chair, Impact Boards EM

About the speakers:

Stanislav Shekshnia is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD, co-director of Leading from the Chair and Scandinavian Executive Institute Executive Board and Advanced Board development programs. His research concentrates on leadership, leadership development and effective corporate governance at emerging markets and organizations. Shekshnia is the author, co-author, and editor of 11 books, including Leading a Board (2nd edition, 2021), CEO School (2018), Athletic CEOs (2018), and more than 50 articles on corporate governance, entrepreneurship, leadership, people management and intercultural management.

Stanislav is a senior partner at WH advisors (Dubai) and provides advice and personal coaching to business owners, senior executives and executive teams. Since 2001 he has been an independent chair and director at a number of companies in the USA, France, Russia, Ukraine, The Netherlands and Serbia.

In 1991-2002 he held positions of CEO, Alfa-Telecom, President and CEO, Millicom International Cellular, Russia and CIS, Chief Operating Officer of VimpelCom, Director of Human Resources, Central and Eastern Europe of Otis Elevator. Stanislav has a Ph.D. and Master's Degree in Economics from Moscow State University, and an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.

View his LinkedIn profile here

Jens Harsaae is a Chair at Abacus Medicine Group, LanguageWire, Pascal Audio and Ridango. He is also a Non-Executive Director at NIRAS and Dear Future. Prior to this, he was a partner and managing director of the Boston Consulting Group, leading the Copenhagen office of BCG and acting as the firm’s global topic leader for marketing and other go-to-market related topics.

He started his career in Brand Management with Procter & Gamble and worked with responsibility for brands and categories in the Nordics (Stockholm), Germany (Frankfurt) and Western Europe (Geneva) before returning to Denmark.

In addition to his board work, Jens acts as advisor to private equity funds and as a lecturer on the non-executive education programmes at BICG (Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance) and SEI (Scandinavian Executive Institute) in collaboration with INSEAD. He is a member of the advisory board of Board Network in Denmark and has been chairing their annual board conference since 2014.

View his LinkedIn profile here