You’ll be welcomed to the programme and begin connecting with fellow participants, while exploring the navigation and tools of your Online Campus. Be alerted to key milestones in the learning path, and review how your results will be calculated and distributed.

You’ll be required to complete your participant profile, confirm your email address for the delivery of your digital certificate, and submit a digital copy of your passport/identity document.

Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during programme development.

Explore the pivotal role of directors in fostering sound governance through independent insight, oversight and strategic influence.

• Outline the key characteristics of typical and alternative corporate board structures
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of different board structures in various corporate settings
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of independent directors
• Determine the skills required to act as an effective independent director in a dynamic setting
• Articulate the importance of maintaining independence as a board director

Examine the director’s duty to act in the interest of balancing shareholder value, stakeholder interests and ethical considerations.

• Explain the implications that fiduciary duties have for directors
• Describe how factors included in the fiduciary duty have changed over time
• Identify the constituencies that benefit from the actions of directors
• Interpret how independent directors influence corporate decisions for the benefit of shareholders and long-term business success
• Articulate the ways in which directors' decisions impact value creation for shareholders and other constituencies

Delve into the legal obligations of independent directors to uphold reasonable care from baseline obligations to specialist scrutiny and awareness of critical red flags for oversight.

• Determine the basic standards of competencies and engagement that all directors need to satisfy to ensure they carry out their legal obligation
• Illustrate how the objective minimum presents itself in real-world terms and how individuals fail to fulfill this requirement
• Compare how specialised legal standards are applied in different jurisdictions impact different directories
• Analyse how failure to meet obligations as a director could lead to legal consequences
• Investigate governance warning signs and the material impact on a director's oversight duty
• Select the appropriate response for a breach in governance, compliance or safety protocol

Unpack the nature of conflicts of interest – including their disclosure and management – to ensure ethical, transparent decision-making by board members.

• Articulate how directors should identify and respond to actual or potential conflicts of interest
• Distinguish how directors should respond to conflicts of interest in different scenarios
• Compare the differences between various forms of conflict
• Attribute the appropriate form of conflict of interest present in any given instance to ensure governance is upheld
• Deduce whether or not the disclosure process is applicable to an instance to ensure good governance

Interrogate corporate climate risks disclosure, strategic trade-offs shaping corporate resilience, value and safeguarding stakeholder interests.

• Analyse the key dimensions of corporate climate risk and considerations for independent directors
• Justify the type of climate risks corporates should prioritise to ensure long-term sustainability
• Assess the material impacts of climate risks on corporate operations and key financial metrics
• Reflect on corporate decisions to fund specific climate risk mitigation initiatives over others
• Evaluate the effectiveness of oversight approaches that executive boards take towards corporate climate risks

Explore legal frameworks, governance risks and questions that shape governance oversight related to the emergent use of AI in the boardroom.

• Investigate the impact of AI’s emergence and ethical use of AI within companies
• Deduce how directors need to exercise oversight to ensure the valuable AI use
• Analyse the impact and value that AI presents to businesses and various stakeholders
• Decide how best to approach AI challenges from an independent position
• Critique board approaches to AI related governance issues and their outcome on the business and stakeholders