Conscious Governance

Steering Your Organization with Conscious Awareness.

These changing, challenging times call for conscious Board leadership that goes well beyond conventional "policy-making", and focuses on performance and strategy.

Conscious Governance in its widest sense refers to how any organization is run with conscious awareness. It is what the Board is responsible for in terms of strategic decision making and sustainability of the organization.

This resource provides governance tools and resources to assist you to address challenging governance issues with awareness. These tools will assist your Board in crafting a conscious leadership structure and approach that will effectively improve performance.

Board succession planning and skills analysis The Board should have the right mix of skills and attributes to develop and monitor the organization's affairs both now and into the future.


Board Induction Strategies A well designed Board induction process will help to ensure that new Board members are aware of their role and responsibilities, understand the organization’s objectives and operations, and contribute to the Board's culture and decision making processes.


Board charters To govern consciously the Board needs a Board charter that clearly outlines roles, responsibilities, ethical expectations and operational details of the Board.


Advanced Board governance strategies An innovative look at governance describing ways that Boards and Board members can add value to the organizations they serve with conscious awareness. This has a number of detailed tools and techniques that truly make a difference to the Board process.


Board policies Board policies designed to help Boards, CEOs and staff leaders advance their organizations, make better collective decisions, and guide individual actions and behaviors.


Board evaluation processes Board evaluation processes to help Boards determine how well they are carrying out their responsibilities and identify areas that will move them to the next level of performance.


Board committees The governance committees of the Board add immense value by enabling the Board to strategically investigate in depth, ask questions before issues are brought to the Board, strategically manage the Board, CEO and senior leadership team, and provide operational information in a focused, strategic manner.