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Supporting Inclusive Boards Programme – What Have We Learned 

An interactive workshop for supporting board diversity, in support of the higher education governance community.

The Supporting Inclusive Boards programme engages governance professionals in enhancing and sharing thinking, noting the importance of the role of the governance professional in implementing change to improve Board Diversity. 

It builds on the two Supporting Inclusive Boards programmes that have been run for the last two years and consolidate learning and challenges for a wider audience.  

We also take the opportunity to invite governors to encourage governance professionals and their governors to explore the challenges together, to hear the same messages and to collaborate on solutions and next steps. 

An Advance HE member benefit

Supporting Inclusive Boards Programme – What Have We Learned is open to colleagues at Advance HE member institutions. If you are interested in participating please book your place for the upcoming interactive workshop.

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Podcast

Kim Ansell and Tesse Akpeki share challenges and learning from two Supporting Inclusive Board programmes which have been part of our member benefit offers in the previous two years. They will ask what is next? The podcast will be shared in December.

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Interactive Workshop

Kim Ansell and Tesse Akpeki share challenges and learning from two Supporting Inclusive Boards programmes which have been part of our member benefit offers in the previous two years. They will ask what next and engage the audience in discussion groups to share learning and good practice.

Interactive Workshop: Supporting Inclusive Boards – what have we learned

Date: Thursday 18 January 2024 | 1:00 - 2:30pm
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Blog

Following the workshop, Kim Ansell and Tesse Akpeki share challenges and learning from the SIB programme.

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Insights from the 22-23 The Supporting Inclusive Boards Programme

Our second network series for supporting board diversity explores the podcast led by Kim Ansell and Tesse Akpeki, who discuss encouraging participants to challenge board diversity and inclusion practices at their institutions.

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Insights from the 21-22 The Supporting Inclusive Boards Programme

As Advance HE publishes its Diversity of governors in higher education report, the second in the series, Kim Ansell reflects on the ‘Supporting Inclusive Boards’ initiative in 2021-22 and Advance HE plans to continue the important work of supporting inclusive Boards.

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Project Facilitators

Tessé Akpeki

Senior Associate Consultant, Wellbeing and Resilience Leadership Initiative

Tessé served as an Equal Opportunities Commissioner, a Non-Executive in the NHS (13 years), a governor of International Students House (ISH) and served as a chair of the Governance and Nominations Committee of ISH until December 2019. 

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Kim Ansell

Senior Consultant, Governance and Leadership, Advance HE

She has worked across higher and professional education providing support to groups at all levels including senior leadership teams and Boards, to facilitate change, strategic thinking, planning and performance improvement. Kim has recently led the Advance HE membership-themed month on the topic of Transforming Organisations from student to board. 

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