Chairperson Accelerator Programme
Launching in October 2024
Cohort 2 - Launching in Q1 2025
Register here for 2025’s run if you are an aspiring or newly-appointed board chair with at least eight years of board experience.
For more information, please email [email protected]
About Chairperson Accelerator Programme
The Chairperson Accelerator Programme is a board leadership programme designed to prepare first-time board chairs and directors slated as potential chairs to lead effective and high-performance boards. The advanced programme is spread across six weeks and takes participants through a comprehensive professional development journey, which includes psychometrics, board simulation exercises and professional networking.
Delivered by Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and Heidrick & Struggles (H&S), the holistic programme seeks to equip participants with the skills and mindset needed to steer an organisation’s direction and strategy. This programme will tackle key topics around the role of the chairperson and management of effective dynamics to ensure a high-performance board.
Faculty
Markus Wiesner
Partner, Head of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Emerging Markets, Heidrick & Struggles
Dr Markus Wiesner is a trusted adviser to senior executives and boards on strategic organisational and human resource (HR) matters, with a proven ability to link strategy to the people agenda and create bottom-line business results. With more than 20 years of experience in consulting, his technical expertise spans across board evaluations, board development, organisational design and change, leadership assessment and development, culture shaping and top team acceleration. He has completed projects in more than 30 countries with major global and regional organisations. Most recently, his consulting work focuses on helping boards and senior teams to improve their collaboration and effectiveness. Dr Wiesner is a Chartered Director (Institute of Directors, London), board member and board adviser. He is a faculty member at the GCC Board Directors Institute.
Patrick Dunne*
Experienced chair and board member
Mr Patrick Dunne has helped chairpersons across a wide range of sectors in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America to transform the effectiveness of their boards. He is chair of board consultancy Boardelta and founding chair of the EY Foundation and charity Education Sub-Saharan Africa. He has extensive experience in developing social enterprises, including Leap Confronting Conflict where he is Patron. A member of the Higgs review and author of the award-winning book Boards, he has helped to establish many successful courses on board skills including for the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, Invest Europe and the Financial Times. Mr Dunne was awarded an OBE in the Kings Honours list in 2023 for services to charity and philanthropy in Africa and the UK.
*Subject to faculty availability