Course overview

Staying up to date and showing your proficiency in the legal and corporate governance of a business is a prerequisite associated with being a Non-Executive Director (NED). This course focuses on your responsibilities whether you are a first-time or experienced NED.

Share experiences with other senior professionals and receive coaching and cutting-edge insight that you can immediately apply to your business.

 

Key topics include

  • The legal responsibilities of boards and directors
  • Corporate governance
  • Characteristics of effective boards and NEDs
  • Removing directors
  • Issues of remuneration
  • Q&A with an experienced NED and more

 

What will delegates take away?

  • A core understanding of corporate governance and legal responsibilities
  • Approaches and techniques to help you become an effective NED
  • Opportunity to share experiences and network

 

Course Director

Murray Steele

Murray Steele

Course Director

Murray holds Bachelor's and Master’s Degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Glasgow; an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and an accounting qualification from the Institute of Certified Accountants. He currently delivers NED development programmes for the Financial Times, BVCA and EBRD. Over 10,000 people have attended his NED Programmes both in the UK and internationally.

His practical experience ranges from being a NED of the Airline Division of British Aerospace which had revenues in excess of £1 billion to a nominee director of 3i. He was Chair of Orchard Hotels, a start-up hotel company which he created with a colleague in 1985 and sold successfully to a listed company in 2002. Currently, he is Chair of Octopus Apollo VCT, one of the largest in the UK; Surface Generation, an advanced manufacturing company; spotlite, a social media platform which is a safe space for children and a NED of AUGA Group, Europe’s largest organic food producer, which is listed on the Vilnius Stock Exchange. In total, he has held over 20 Chair and NED positions and led three successful exits.

 

 Course testimonial

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"The course provided both an excellent technical and practical grounding for new and current NEDs. I participated originally as a refresher, yet was very pleased to find I had further enhanced my skillset through the combination of excellent course leaders and material."

Simon Elvidge, EOS Investment Management

 

CPD accreditation

This course is CPD accredited by the CPD Certification Service for 13 hours. By attending this course, you will receive a digital certificate from Diplomasafe. This certificate allows you to share and save your new CPD accredited qualification on LinkedIn, adding instantly verifiable credentials and strengthening your professional profile.