Individual directors and chair effectiveness: What it really takes
Date: 21 Oct 2025
This webinar unpacks what truly drives individual director and chair effectiveness in today’s complex governance environment.
Gain real boardroom insights from a seasoned governance expert who has helped hundreds of boards, chairs and directors improve their performance. You’ll explore the mindsets, behaviours, and relationships that separate functional from exceptional performance. It’s going to be an interactive session where your thoughts and opinions will help shape the discussion.
Your first task? Complete this short 4-minute director survey before the webinar. Your responses will be combined with others, and the collective results will be shared during the webinar.
You’ll learn:
- What more than 24,000 comments about 1,250 directors tells us about the effectiveness or otherwise of individual directors.
- How to use the DRIVE (Direction, Relationships, Insight, Values and Execution oversight) framework to help you become a better director.
- Why a Chair has an outsized impact on a board; and how to make that an impact for good.
- How you as a director can have an outsized positive impact on your board.
Key details:
Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Canberra: 1pm to 2pm
Adelaide: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Brisbane: noon to 1pm
Darwin: 11.30am to 12.30pm
Perth: 10am to 11am
Location: Online
Price: FREE!
About Board Surveys and its partnership with ICDA
Board Surveys specialises in providing fit-for-purpose surveys that empower organisations to assess and enhance their board performance and effectiveness. With a user-friendly self-service platform, clients can efficiently manage their survey processes, ensuring cost-effectiveness and control.
Board Surveys also offer optional extras such as light touch reviews of committees and individual directors and expert governance advice to help drive and sustain improvement.
All the board effectiveness categories measured by Board Surveys have been mapped to ICDA’s numerous tools, templates and training courses on Board Surveys website. This ensures that you have a clear roadmap towards improvement following the completion of your board survey.
About the speaker
Nicholas (Nick) Barnett has over 35 years of experience as a governance expert, director, business leader, and consultant. He is the Executive Chair of Board Surveys and Insync Boards and non-executive Chair of Pro Purpose. He was previously Chair of Ansvar Insurance, First Samuel, and Ambit Group. He has served as a director of Mission Australia and Stillwell Motor Group. Previously a partner at KPMG Australia, he is also a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD). Nick has conducted more than 250 board reviews ranging from Bank of Queensland, Snowy Hydro and World Vision to National Golf Club. He has also authored three books and numerous reports and articles on governance, leadership, culture and board effectiveness.
What's a Webinar?
A Webinar is a seminar that's conducted over the internet.
Viewers watch a remote presentation on their own screens at a set broadcast time and can participate by typing and submitting questions they would like answered by the presenter.
Our Webinars are recorded and a copy is sent out to every registrant by default. So if you aren't able to watch the Webinar live at the scheduled time, you don't need to do anything - we'll send you a copy you can watch at your own pace on your own screen.
Why Webinars work
You'll learn at a time that suits you
If you can't join us at the scheduled time, we will automatically send you a recording you can watch at your own pace.
You can ask your burning questions
Our Webinars include a 45-minute presentation followed by a 15 minute interactive Q&A session where you'll call the shots. You do so by typing your questions during the Webinar.
You don't need an IT degree
There's no complicated software involved. You just need a reliable internet connection to participate. We'll email you instructions at each step too. Simple!