Convincing the sceptics: diversifying your board

Session Aim: You’ll leave equipped with multiple strategies to talk to your board about the need to diversify.

Ever felt like you’re the only trustee in the room who is trying to champion a more diverse board?

Lots of trustees who join our sessions are personally passionate about improving their recruitment processes but feel despondent that the rest of their board don’t share their enthusiasm.

Join this panel discussion to hear from trustees who were in this position and how they successfully convinced the sceptics. We’ll also speak about looking after yourself in this process, and ponder to what extent it should be down to any single trustee to have to convince the sceptics.

We hope you’ll leave this session with a confidence boost and different ways to talk to your board about why diversifying the board is beneficial - with the ultimate aim being that it happens!

This session is open for anyone to join, but we think trustees and charity staff who are approaching recruiting for trustees and considering how they could improve their processes might be particularly interested.

The session is £10 to attend.

You can buy a weekly pass for access to all of the Festival of Trusteeship events, including this one, for just £25. An early bird price of £15 ends on the 31st August. Head to this to purchase the weekly pass. After you've bought the pass, you'll receive the links to join all festival sessions.

Network/Membership Organisations - If you are a network and/or membership organisation who you like to bulk buy tickets to offer to your members, we can do this via an invoice and unique code. Please contact us at [email protected] to arrange this.

This session will take place on Zoom. The joining link will be sent in the Eventbrite confirmation email. You will also receive email reminders from Eventbrite 2 days, 2 hours and 10 minutes before the session starts. These reminders will also include the joining link.

The session will be recorded and be shared with you so you can rewatch.

If the session uses slides, we will send these to all who have booked a ticket following the session. Our panel sessions don't use slides. If having the slides prior to the session will make it more accessible for you, please email [email protected] and we will gladly send them to you.

As an attendee, you can enable closed captions during the session. For panels, we 'spotlight' panelists so the view stays consistently on those speaking. If you have booked a ticket, please contact [email protected] if there are other adjustments we can make to the session to make it accessible to you.

Join us for a jam packed week of 15 live events from Monday 4th November to Friday 8th November 2024. To celebrate Trustees' Week, our Festival of Trusteeship will bring together a huge amount of trustees, aspiring trustees, charity staff and governance specialists to take time to consider, reflect, plan and action all things trusteeship and governance. You can see the full programme of events here

All of our sessions designed for aspiring trustees are free. All other sessions are £10 to attend. Our weekly pass, £25 for access to all sessions, is incredible value. We are able to run the festival at a low-cost and, hopefully, as a result more accessible, thanks to our wonderful sponsors Ecclesiastical.

Reward Your Board - We believe that the Festival of Trusteeship is a wonderful and low cost way to support your whole Board with their personal development as trustees, as well as an opportunity to consider wider governance issues which may impact on your organisation.

We'd love to reward your board if more than 2 trustees would like to attend the Festival. Please complete this very short form to gain a 25% discount code on weekly passes for all your board members to encourage them to join the Festival.

If you have any specific questions about the Festival, please contact us at [email protected].

Getting on Board is on a mission to change the face of trusteeship. Our Festival of Trusteeship is just one of the ways we are working towards that.

We recommend taking a look around our Eventbrite page to see if our other sessions are of interest. You can also head to our website for more information about everything we offer.

We are a very small charity packing a punch, but do rely on sponsorship and donations to provide the sessions we do. We'd be very grateful for any donations for our work. You can donate via our justgiving page here

If you have any questions about our work, or would like to discuss bespoke training, please get in touch with us by emailing [email protected].

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