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LEAD A SUCCESSFUL NON-EXECUTIVE CAREER Qualify as a Non-Executive Director 6 month course | London & Hong Kong
About the Today’s non-executive directors face a host of
new pressures, challenges and expectations of
Financial Times
accountability and performance. With the acceleration
of globalization, business leaders are pressed to keep
up with the global corporate governance reforms.
Non-Executive Within such diverse product markets and geographies,
board members need to be prepared to best represent
Director Programme the interests of shareholders and stakeholders, as
ignorance can be costly.
The Financial Times Board Director Programme (FT
BDP) offers learning courses and networking events to
support aspiring, new and current non-executive
directors who are looking to develop their career.
With more than 12 years of experience, the FT Board
Director Programme’s community includes over 2,800
professionals.
Run in London and Hong Kong, our programmes bring
high-profile, experienced and dynamic tutors who are
experts in their field. They bring with them a wealth
of real-life experience illustrated in their individual
sessions and the interactive case studies.
Whether you’re an individual looking for your next
challenge, or to add extra value to your existing
executives through training and networking, the
Financial Times Non-Executive Director Programme
is uniquely positioned to excel.
Find out more at bdp.ft.com
2ABOUT THE FINANCIAL TIMES
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DIPLOMA
The Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma is The Diploma is right for you if:
a formally accredited, level 7, postgraduate qualification, • You are thinking of making a move into your first
for aspiring and existing non-executive directors. non-executive director role, particularly if you do not
already have board experience
Offered in both London and Hong Kong, this six-month
course is tailored to provide non-executive directors • You have been newly appointed to a board
with the tools they need to maximize company value • You are already a non-executive but want to
and ensure long-term sustainability. The programme increase your knowledge and skills
covers the whole range of skills needed for any non- • You have experience working at a senior level
executive role, fulfilling new executive education
requirements for board members, enabling them to Please note you must have a degree, professional body
confidently bring competence and credibility to the or equivalent education
board and master board power dynamics.
In a competitive industry, this diploma will enable you
to differentiate yourself from other candidates for
increasingly sought-after board positions.
ABOUT OUR ALUMNI Top Industries
12.45% Financial Services
Type of NED Role
7.10% Banking
44% NED
6.22% Business Services
18% Chairman
6.22% Management Consulting
16% Board Member
13% Trustee 5.79% Professional Services
3% Committee Member 5.35% Education
36% female
10% Other 64% male
2.84% Charity
1005 44% 41% On average our Combined, our UK alumni
Diploma obtained NED roles are currently in alumni hold sit on 477 boards as
graduates after the diploma a NED role 2 NED roles Non-Executive Directors
Source: FT NED Diploma Graduates Survey 2019
3About the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
THE DIPLOMA
The 5-module diploma is delivered online to ensure Why choose the Financial Times Non-Executive
flexibility in your studies. There are two compulsory Director Diploma
workshops as part of the course where participants will • Acquire a recognised formal qualification to help
have the opportunity to learn from and interact with you secure new roles
a panel of experts in their respective fields. The first • The FT provides an online platform with access to
half-day workshop at the start of the course will provide learning materials and a support tutor
an introduction to the topics covered, whilst the second • Get complimentary access to exclusive speaking
workshop will span over two days, focusing on the all- and networking events
important issue of effective boardroom behavior. This • Join a growing number of graduates in our cross-
workshop provides the perfect context for participants cultural Alumni network
to network with each other and develop their skills on • Study in your own time and comfort
an individual basis as well as within a group.
The modules
1. The Effective Non-Executive Director
2. Director’s Duties and Liabilities
3. Board Structure and Performance
4. Audit and Financial Reporting
5. Risk Management and Internal Control
Assessment methods I really enjoyed the course
The course modules are assessed separately. Module
1 consists of a learning log submission as well as a - the quality of teaching
boardroom prep and boardroom dilemma. Modules materials, the very learned
2, 3 and 4 are assessed by a case study submission,
and module 5 is assessed by a 3-hour controlled-
and personable tutors
assessment based on a set of accounts, taken at the and the super efficient
end of the course. Each method will make up a third of administration were all
the candidates final pass/fail grade.
exceptional. The FT NED
KEY BENEFITS Diploma is very much the
• Improve your board performance by dealing with
real-life issues that may occur during your tenure
‘gold standard’ - incredibly
• Develop the skills necessary to challenge executives rewarding and thought
and contribute to an effective board culture provoking. I feel that I
• Gain confidence, broaden your knowledge of the role
of the board and challenge your own way of thinking have grown.
• Increase your individual marketability, helping you William Tuffy, Chairman, Miromore
get onto stronger boards
• Develop an international network of outstanding
alumni
• Improve your understanding of personal strengths
and weaknesses in relation to board dynamics
4About the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma
OUR TUTORS IN THE UK
Murray Steele Alison Gill
Workshop Director and Joint Joint Workshop Presenter and
Workshop Presenter Co-Author of Module 1 – The
Murray has held over 25 NED and Effective Non-Executive Director
chairman positions in almost every Alison is a Director of Bvalco Ltd,
type of organisation. He is currently a consultancy business specialising
Chairman of LINX - the London Internet Exchange, in board effectiveness. A psychologist by background,
Octopus Apollo plc – one of the largest listed VCT’s she works with FTSE 100 Chairmen and their boards
in the UK and Surface Generation – a fast growing coaching non-executive directors and improving
high tech engineering company, and a non-executive boardroom dynamics. She has been a tutor on the FT
director of James Walker Group. Non-Executive Director Diploma since its inception
and authored the sections on boardroom behaviour
Murray is the Course Director for the FT Non-Executive
and dynamics.
Director Diploma, the FT’s flagship NED Development
Programme.
Bob James Sarah Boulton
Tutor Chair
Bob is a Fellow of the Institute of Sarah has held a variety of non-
Chartered Accountants in England executive board roles over the last
& Wales (FCA). He is currently 14 years and she also provides
engaged as a tutor on the FT governance advice and board
NED Diploma course and serves as treasurer for a support to a range of public, private and not for profit
pensioners’ association. Bob graduated in Cohort 12 of organisations through Healthy Board Services and
the FT’s Non-Executive Director Diploma in 2014. Capsticks. Her board experience to date has included
serving as non-executive director, Audit Committee
Chair and Chair of five different NHS trusts.
Cosette Reczek Tony Stubbs
Chair Tutor
Cosette Reczek is Chair, Audit Tony is a Fellow of the Institute
& Risk Committee and Member, of Chartered Accountants in
Board of Trustees for UNICEF England & Wales (FCA) and has an
UK. Cosette has held a variety of Economics degree from University
NED, advisory and leadership roles, operating at the of Bristol. In 2007, Tony took a franchise in Executives
executive level in the UK’s largest banks. earlier in her Online, a leading interim management provider, which
career. The focus of her most recent work includes led to the development of his own business, Transpire.
board effectiveness and governance reviews, interim He has recently been engaged as Tutor on the FT NED
management, and transformation. She founded and Diploma course and serves as Finance Director for a
leads Permuto Consulting to advise and support others fast-growing healthcare business and on a number of
pursuing such efforts, and teaches at Cass Business Charity Boards as well as running Transpire.
School, City University of London.
5About the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma
OUR TUTORS IN HONG KONG
Diana David Steven DeKrey
Head of programme Workshop leader
Diana currently leads the Financial Prof. Steven J. Dekrey is Associate
Times Executive Education Dean and Adjunct Professor of
initiatives in Asia-Pacific, including Management at HKUST. He is the
the flagship FT Non-Executive founding director of the Kellogg-
Directors Diploma, and focuses on angel investing at HKUST EMBA Program and continues to direct this
Sarana Capital. She is an INED at DaVinci Labs, on world #1 ranked program. He is also Director of the
the advisory board of NEST.vc and on the Board of Saudi Arabia MBA Program which he initiated in 2012
Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce with Saudi Aramco.
Hong Kong. She is a past elected Vice Chairman of the
Executive Board of the Society of Publishers Asia. Diana
holds a FT Non-Executive Director Diploma.
Raymond Reed Baker
Instructor
Ray has a deep interest in
corporate governance, as both
The FT NED Diploma is
an academic and practitioner. truly an excellent course. It
He began his career with strikes just the right balance
PricewaterhouseCoopers, in their assurance practice,
and then moved on from the firm to advise over one between direct instruction
hundred organisations on governance, accounting and online learning - allowing
or internal control related matters. His clients have
included a range of organisations operating in the sufficient flexibility for the
United States, China and Europe, with a more recent learner to adjust to his/
focus on Sarbanes Oxley advisory services for public
companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX and
her work schedule. I found
OTC capital markets. the instruction, reading and
He has an MBA and PhD in Accounting, from the online material challenging,
University of Hong Kong, along with a Bachelors relevant and up-to-date.
Degree in Accounting, from The Pennsylvania State
University. Ray is also an actively licensed Certified A completely worthwhile
Public Accountant. investment.
Stephen P. Groff, Vice President, Asian
Development Bank
6About the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma
UPCOMING ENROLLMENT DATES
COURSE DATES
UK Cohort 39 UK Cohort 43
Induction Workshop 5th March 2020 Induction Workshop 18th November 2020
Two Day Workshop 13th and 14th May 2020 Two Day Workshop 4th and 5th February 2021
Controlled Assessment 14th September 2020 Controlled Assessment 18th May 2021
Asia Cohort 13
UK Cohort 40
Induction Workshop 17th September 2019
Induction Workshop 4th June 2020
Two Day Workshop 7th & 8th November 2019
Two Day Workshop 15th and 16th July 2020
Controlled Assessment 17th March 2020
Controlled Assessment 3rd December 2020
Asia Cohort 14
UK Cohort 41
Induction Workshop 10th March 2020
Induction Workshop 8th July 2020
Two Day Workshop 14th and 15th May 2020
Two Day Workshop 2nd and 3rd September 2020
Controlled Assessment 22th September 2020
Controlled Assessment 13th January 2021
Asia Cohort 15
UK Cohort 42
Induction Workshop 15th September 2020
Induction Workshop 16th September 2020
Two Day Workshop 5th and 6th November 2020
Two Day Workshop 11th and 12th November 2020
Controlled Assessment 23rd March 2021
Controlled Assessment 16th March 2021
FEES
UK: £5,500 excl. VAT*
Asia: £6,500*
The FT Non-Executive Director Diploma cost includes assessment fees, attendance at the
workshops, networking sessions, and access to online learning materials and support. Delegates will
also receive exclusive access to our regular networking evenings including speaking sessions with
recognised thought-leaders.
*includes application fee
For more information or to book your place in the UK contact William Peake
on +44 (0) 20 7873 4909 or william.peake@ft.com
For more information or to book your place in Asia contact Hannah Carmichael
on +852 2905 5541 or hannah.carmichael@ft.com
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