Best Practices for Recruiting Board Directors

Navigating the search process for finding a new board member is a time consuming process if you go it alone

Best Practices for Recruiting Board Directors

Typically, the process for finding a new board member consists of tapping into your existing and probably, somewhat homogeneous, network. The problem with this is the inability to tap into new talent pools, not to mention the time it takes to narrow your search down to available candidates and possibly, the lack of diversity and breadth of experience in your network. 

theBoardlist has been helping PE firms, VC’s, founders, CEOs, board directors and enterprise companies across all industries build their boards since 2015. We are the leading talent database of diverse board directors. And we’re here to help you too. 

Navigating the search process for finding a new board member is a time consuming process if you go it alone. Check out theBoardlist’s search platform today of over 22,000+ diverse candidates, as well as these resources we’ve curated for you: 

YCombinator How to Create and Manage a Board
Entrepreneur 10 Tips for Forming a Board of Directors
Private Company Director Best Practices for Recruiting New Board Members
Business Insider How to Recruit a Board of Directors
Egon Zehnder The Board Director Hiring Process
Harvard Business Review What Makes Great Boards Great
Management Today How to hire a great board of directors
Upcounsel Build Board of Directors: A Simple How to Guide for Startups

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