BoardNavLogo Design Contest

Dear Designers, please stop simply throwing the two words together. Your design has to have a meaning, some symbolism and thought given to what we're trying to do. PLEASE read the description, do some due diligence on board dynamics, and really think about a senior executive struggling to find the right path to join and contribute/add shareholder value on the RIGHT (vs. simply any) corporate board. Thanks, DN

Every year, thousands of sitting and retiring senior executives undertake board seat searches that are overwhelmingly unsuccessful, even though they are highly qualified and capable. Why? The resources available to these individuals are underwhelming.
• The search industry is exclusively designed to serve former and sitting CEOs of large companies;
• Fortune 1000 board seats are rarely available, and outside the Fortune 1000 most board seats aren’t placed through search firms; and
• Advice from large public companies and service providers that cater to them completely misses the mark because most executives’ first board seat is not likely to be a Fortune 1000 company.

Statistically, the likeliest landing spot for your executives is on the board of directors of a small-cap company (roughly 80% of public companies are classified as small-cap, generally defined as a company with a market capitalization of between $300 million and $2 billion). Successfully securing a small-cap board seat is a function of two critical factors:
• Optimizing and nurturing relationships in a way most of your executives might not have done during their careers, and
• Understanding the nuances of small-cap corporate governance.

Unless the executives understand how and why small-cap directors are typically appointed, their chances of successfully securing boards seats remain low. It’s the reason why thousands of highly qualified prospective directors never successfully garner board seats.

Optimizing and nurturing relationships along with a pragmatic, in-depth understanding of small-cap corporate governance are the prerequisites for successful board searches for your executives. But until now, no content or programming has ever focused on these statistical success parameters.

What if the seasoned executives had a Public Company Board GPS – a guided path to:
• Accurately understand the dynamics of a “day in the life of a public company board member;”
• Astutely be attuned to the principle motivation for joining a board of a public company;
• Appropriately align a public company board seat with one’s professional acumen;
• Understand the significant challenges and opportunities of a smaller public company board;
• Design a highly customized and personalized Smart Board Journey™;
• Internalize the significance of strategic relationships and bridge relationship creation to relationship capitalization – the essence of Relationship Economics®;
• Create a rolling 30-60-90-day plan to begin their search;
• Understand and appropriately plan for specific skills and behaviors ensure the success of their search;
• Prioritize the needs and aspirations of the small-cap board and CEO;
• Top mistakes to avoid – as repeated by the prevailing market approach to securing board seats;
• Alternative creative paths to consider.

Welcome to BoardNav and it's Smart Board Journey(TM).