Maarten Schäfer

When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board's Performance

Executive Summary Evidence that board diversity benefits firms is mixed. A 2015 meta-analysis of 140 research studies…

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Gender Parity in the Boardroom Won't Happen on Its Own

We're making progress, but it is too slow. That's the key finding of the sixth edition of Deloitte Global's Women in…

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You've Committed to Increasing Gender Diversity on Your Board. Here's How to Make it Happen.

After years of asking corporate directors about the importance of diversity in the boardroom, we've got some good news…

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How Diverse Is Your Board, Really?

Influenced by state legislation as well as the efforts of institutional investors and other diversity advocates…

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So Women on Boards Are a Bad Thing Now? | Ellevest

That sound you heard last week was some wailing and gnashing of teeth over a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on…

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How Women On Boards Is Sparking An Industry-Wide Movement Towards Greater Gender Diversity With…

On February 27, 2020, Women on Boards Project (WOB), a nonprofit with the mission of empowering female business leaders…

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Forbes Insights: Momentum Builds For More Women On Boards

For the first time in history, all-male boards of directors are going the way of the buggywhip, as more and more…

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Women On Boards: How To Close The Gap

Credit Karma, Canva, and Grab.* What do these companies have in common? All of these companies have either female CEOs…

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How Women Will Save The Future, One Corporate Board At A Time

Getting more women into the corporate boardroom has been a high priority governance issue for several years globally…

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8 Ways To Position Women For Corporate Boards

When Jocelyn Mangan joined the board of Papa John's, she joined the ranks of a select group: women on corporate boards…

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Council Post: The Rise Of Women In Corporate Boardrooms

My recent keynote topic at a Women Corporate Directors event was "The Brains of the Board -- How to Drive an Effective…

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More Women And People Of Color Appointed To Corporate Boards But Pandemic And Biases May Reverse It

Women and people of color have been appointed to more non-executive director roles on corporate boards. Measures to…

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Maarten Schäfer

“I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.”