The board biography builder, Diversity on Board

Start with the header of your page: who you are and where you stand today. A committee reads it in seconds, and it should need no interpretation.

Full name

Current role

Organisation

Based in

Languages

Governance credentials Your director training or certification, including any of the programmes listed within the pathway. You may leave this blank: the absence of a formal qualification is not a barrier to appointment in most markets.

Write one sentence a board member could repeat accurately after the meeting has ended. Name the decisions you would help the board to take, rather than the job title you hold.

Your one sentence

Worked examples, tap to start from one

Set out your career in two or three sentences: what you have run, at what scale, and which decisions you owned rather than advised on. Numbers persuade a committee more than adjectives do.

Your career in brief

Sectors and skills The subjects you can speak to with authority, separated by commas and held to six or fewer. The suggestions below use the categories a board skills matrix scores against.

Your governance experience counts more broadly than you may assume: chairing an audit subcommittee or serving as a trustee is genuine evidence. A committee will test which of your appointments carried statutory authority and which were advisory, so state the difference yourself.

Your board and committee experience

Committee readiness The committee you are ready to join on appointment, with your evidence in one line. This is frequently the first question a chair asks of your page.

Your directorships and independence The directorships you hold and your independence position, in one line. Overboarding and conflicts are the two questions a nomination fails on quietly, and this line answers both before they are asked.

The review reads your draft as a nominations committee would, against eleven standards. It is not a gate: you can export at any time, and the standards show you what remains open.

Your board biography