Building a healthy board culture is hard. It’s slow, it’s often frustrating and it’s also the thing that determines whether everything else you’re trying to do actually works. As the saying goes, culture eats strategy for breakfast, and it’ll eat your mission statement too, if you let it. Too many boards drift toward dysfunction: quiet resentments, trust deficits and meetings that feel more like negotiations than partnerships. This session digs into what it actually takes to avoid that cliff: shared stewardship, a real commitment to the greater good and the groundwork most boards never get around to laying.

You’ll leave with practical ways to build trust around your board table and ideas you can bring to your very next meeting.

Meet Our Facilitator

Paul Klein

Paul Klein is a teaching associate professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz School of Business, where he teaches law and ethics. He began his career as a mediator for the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations and has led trainings for organizations including Alcoa, Heinz and the Pittsburgh High Technology Council. He also serves as an elected member of Allegheny County Council.