When board capital is fully optimized, the board’s role extends beyond mere oversight
to actively shape the firm’s performance, inform strategy, forge relationships, and access resources.
Benefits:
- BCP’s program is customized to your specific needs, goals, and targets through a structured, full-spectrum approach.
- You’ll walk away with a pivot strategy roadmap tailored to current job market insights, a rebranding strategy, and easy-to-amend career documents with instructions on how to edit to each board inquiry.
- Move at your own pace. BCP’s program phases can be bought separately or discounted as a package.
- Explore BCP’s portfolio of Premium and A La Carte services designed to further strengthen your board readiness and competitive positioning.
Board Readiness (Phase 1)
Goal: Position yourself beyond board qualified to board ready. Gain self-awareness of your motivations, desired impact, and transferable skills to develop a pivot strategy based on skills, career achievements, personal values, and market opportunities.
- Discovery: You’ll complete a Discovery Questionnaire on employment history, community volunteer, nonprofit, and corporate board service, hard and soft skills, sector experience, achievements, likes, dislikes, concerns, core values, and goals.
- Follow-up: A 90-minute Zoom session to conduct an analysis of your board readiness, identify your main strengths, shortlist realistic new options, and set goals.
- Takeaway: A customized-to-you board strategy roadmap.
Rebranding (Phase 2)
Goal: Develop a personal brand to effectively communicate your board value.
- Discovery: BCP performs a Limited Targeted Digital Forensic Review to identify where and how you, affiliated organizations, current boards, and employers are presented online to assess the potential impact on your professional perception. All statements we include in your board documents must be verifiable: achievements, company descriptions, board and volunteer service, and education.
- Follow-up: Design a rebranding plan and identify steps to position you as a viable board candidate.
- Takeaway: We’ll shortlist potential solutions to close experience gaps and ensure your new board value statement clearly demonstrates your value to the enterprise.
Board Assets (Phase 3)
Goal: Create a curated package of personal marketing documents tailored specifically toward board service. We’ll include examples that prove how you are unafraid to be part of the hard conversations that result in sound decision-making, progress, and accountability.
- Board CV: Professional writing of a two-page resume that highlights your transferable skills and achievements to prove your board value.
- Board candidacy bio: A one-page career narrative tailored to highlight what you can bring to the table.
- LinkedIn alignment: A complete refresh of your LinkedIn profile, including a compelling new headline, board-centric summary, work experience, skills section, and tips for elevating visibility.
- Cover letter board template: Formatted with instructions to easily customize.
- Takeaway: Easy to parse documents that are front-loaded with your most outstanding leadership examples.
Board Search Strategy (Phase 4)
Goal: There are many different kinds of Boards: corporate, private company, nonprofit, advisory, private equity, venture capital, quasi governmental, and family-owned businesses, to name just a few. Where do you fit?
- Discovery: BCP will help match your skillset, goals, ethics, and experience to the types of boards that will benefit from your expertise.
- Follow-up: Together, we’ll curate a shortlist of best-fit organizations and design a strategic outreach plan grounded in targeted high-impact networking methods. No mass applications, no cold outreach, no costly search firms.
- Takeaway: A path to new and often overlooked network outreach methods.
Interview Strategy (Phase 5)
Goal: Learn how to tailor your answers to interviewer expectations: solving problems, communicating clearly, and being prepared.
- Follow-up: Prep in advance to deliver professional and positive answers to “difficult” questions on resume gaps and career hiccups that may emerge. Demystify interview “storytelling” by shaping answers that showcase your skills, knowledge and expertise targeted to the board’s mandates.
- Takeaway: An customizable interview prep worksheet.
Premium Service: Digital Career Portfolio
Goal: Create an online hub where you can be discovered, control your own narrative, and direct inquiries with no connection limits.
- Discovery: A questionnaire and 90-minute session with BCP and Web Pages That Sell to identify what you hope to accomplish with your site (goal), how you want to be perceived (branding), and the story you want to tell (narrative and images.)
- Follow-up: Working together, we’ll choose and secure your site name, develop a color palette, design or choose your logo, set up your server registration and personal e-mail, choose a website design template, secure images, write targeted storytelling narratives, and upload to live.
- Takeaway: A customized site where you can easily update your resume, post blogs, start a Substack, announce upcoming webinars, appearances, publications, and answer inquiries.