Overview
The Henley MA Board Practice and Directorship (MA BPD) is a post-experience, practice-focused programme that aims to enhance your value as a board director.
Focusing on governance and strategic oversight as a board-level stewardship responsibility, the programme provides you with the knowledge and skills to support effective judgements in board-level decision-making and promote longer-term resilient governance.
Each board and the organisational context it faces is unique. As a result, the MA BPD considers what it takes to deliver highly effective boards, director behaviours and governance frameworks across different sectors and settings.
The programme is delivered by expert academic faculty, with insights from highly experienced board practitioners. It also draws extensively on the top-team governance research conducted at Henley Business School, which covers more than 19,000 boards across 37 countries.
The Henley MA Board Practice and Directorship is offered in stages with partner organisations in the UK and Europe. Please see the 'Our partners' section for more information.
To find out more about this programme, please contact Henley's programme advisors at [email protected].
Details
- Format: Self study
- Cost: £10,000 per stage
- Duration: 24 months
- Students who successfully complete the Masters programme will automatically be awarded CGIUKI Affiliated Member status.
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What you'll learn
The PGCert, PGDip and MA BPD is offered in three progressive stages and draws on Henley’s extensive board and top-team governance research that extends to more than 20,000 boards across 40 countries.
With this Masters level qualification, the CGI is adding a unique offering to its portfolio of director and board-level training and skills programmes – for understanding board member roles, delineating board with management and owners, effective board engagement and dynamics, and the latest in governance best practices for ensuring rigour in director stewardship as high order contributions and evidence informed decision-making and outcomes.
Henley will also be offering short attendance only, non-qualification programmes in partnership with CGI, designed to address key emerging gaps as latest developments in directorship expertise such as in digital; finance; sustainable finance; fintech and board dynamics.
Suitable for
Designed for experienced practising board members (Chair, C-suite, SID, NED) from across the private, public and third sectors, the MA Board Practice and Directorship is a post-experience, practice-focused, part-time programme focusing on governance, strategic oversight, board dynamics and how to lead a high performing board.
The programme is delivered by expert academic faculty with extensive international experience, with insights from highly experienced board practitioners.
Content
This course is delivered by Henley Business School. Extensive details of the MA are available on their website.
Below is a summary of the three constituent modules that makeup the Masters in Board Practice and Directorship.
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Postgraduate Certificate 8 months, |
Director development and understanding your board • Module 1 (2 days): Building Board and Director Effectiveness • Module 2 (2 days): Investor Relations, Governance and Innovation • Module 3 (2 days): Handling Risk at Board Level
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Postgraduate Diploma 8 months, |
Board dynamics and offers mentoring for you as a • Module 4 (2 days): Board Information and Communication
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Masters* 8 months, |
Specialist sector expertise (private, public and third sectors), and applied research into a real-world board-level governance issue • Module 6 (2 days): Research and Analytical Skills for Board Directors
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*For the full Masters programme, all modules (180 credits) must be completed