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Development Programme

Developing professional, competent, and ethical directors that can effectively serve on boards. Are you READY for a board seat?

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Boards & Directors

'The business of serving on boards.'
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Advisory Board Programme

Creating advisory boards for SMMEs, NPOs and other organisations.

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& Directors Masterclass

What actually happens in a boardroom? What does a director really do — and what can you earn serving on one? Get honest, practical answers from people who sit on boards every day. Join our free virtual masterclass on Zoom, no cost and no obligation, and find out what it takes to build a board career.

📅 Tuesday, 20 October | 18h00 – 19h00 | Virtual via Zoom

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Shareholder Governance

Being a director isn't the only role that carries governance responsibility — shareholders do too. Our Shareholder Governance Advisory helps you get the fundamentals right:

Share structure
Shareholder agreements
Share certificates
Company MOI
AGM & shareholder meeting services

Do you know what it means to be a shareholder? Take our free Shareholder Questionnaire and find out.

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Duvera’s Rules

196 rules for governing a board; and the shareholder meetings that sit behind it; the way it’s actually meant to work, not the way the textbooks describe it. Duvera’s Rules distils what good governance looks like in practice, across the issues that actually trip boards and shareholders up:

The chair’s real job, and where it ends
How to challenge management without becoming the problem
Conflicts of interest, committees, and paper trails that hold up
Running a shareholder meeting that actually works; notice, quorum, resolutions, voting
When to escalate, and when to let management run
What “good governance” looks like when nobody’s watching

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