Where you are in the pathway
Stage 1 · The Foundation
Governance Maturity™
Develop the judgment, stewardship mindset, fiduciary awareness, and enterprise perspective required for effective board service. Maturity is the substrate on which every other governance capability is built.
Programs & Products
Develop your maturity
- Governance Maturity™ Assessment & Debrief
- Governance Maturity™ Coaching
- Governance Maturity™ Accelerator
- Governance Learning Path™
Prerequisite
Governance Experience Profile™
Before the assessment, we capture your governance experience to contextualize your results. This profile is informational and does not affect assessment scores.
The Assessment
Governance Maturity™ Assessment
Part I
Quantitative Assessment
Ten governance competencies scored on a maturity scale.
- · Fiduciary Judgment
- · Strategic Oversight
- · Risk Awareness
- · Financial Acumen
- · Independent Thinking
- · Stewardship Mindset
- · Ethical Judgment
- · Boardroom Discipline
- · Stakeholder Perspective
- · Learning Orientation
Sample maturity score
3.6 / 5.0
Part II
Reflective Inquiry
Long-form prompts that surface judgment, ethics, and stewardship in your own words.
- — Describe a time when you demonstrated fiduciary judgment.
- — Describe a difficult governance decision you faced.
- — How do you distinguish governance from management?
- — What strategic questions do you naturally ask in the boardroom?
- — What types of enterprise risks do you notice first?
- — What principles guide your governance decisions?
- — What does stewardship mean to you?
Part III
Governance Reflection
Purpose, intention, and legacy — the "why" behind your board service.
- — Why do you want to serve on a board?
- — What kind of board do you hope to serve?
- — What governance issue matters most to you?
- — What legacy do you hope to leave through governance?
"I will know I have become a mature governor when…"
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