Securing Your First NED Role – Webinar 1 – Getting Ready

Impact Boards EM and NED Career Services are co-hosting a Fall Webinar Series with Mike Clancy, founder of NED Career Services, beginning in September 2025. 

The first webinar in the Fall Webinar Series, Getting Ready, will take place on 11 September 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 UK time. This will be followed by two further webinars Your Elevator Pitch and CV and Networking in October.

What are the Fall Webinar Series?

The Fall Webinar Series is a series of 3 webinars, 60 mins each, geared towards our Aspiring Directors' Circle members i.e. aspiring board directors who are looking to start their non-executive career with a board appointment in parallel with their executive role or embarking on a Portfolio Career focused on non-executive appointments. 

When starting your corporate non-executive career, aspiring board directors will be repeatedly told two things. Firstly, the hardest part is to secure your first role and secondly, to secure that first role networking will be essential. Our Fall Webinar Series is designed to help our Aspiring Directors' Circle members become networking ready. The series will cover the key topics and issues you will need to think through to maximise the chances of your future networking being successful.

Webinar 1 – Getting Ready

11 September 2025 at 13:00 UK time

Webinar 2 – Your Elevator Pitch 

2 October 2025 at 13:00 UK time

Webinar 3 – CV and Networking 

23 October 2025 at 13:00 UK time

What will be covered in Webinar 1 – Getting Ready?

This session will cover Motives, Preparation and Career Review. 

Motives 

No one is told to be a non-executive director. It is a career choice you have made. 

• People will want to know why you want to do it – you will be asked this question. 

• How effective is your answer? 

• We will explore push and pull factors around this fundamental point.

Preparation 

Without previous non-executive experience, you will be promoting your NED potential. Preparation will enhance your potential and you will have to be pro-active. 

• Do you genuinely understand the role? 

• Have you mastered the “theory”? 

• What are your options to educate yourself and become informed?

Career Review 

This is the start of your positioning as a NED. Looking backwards to identify the value you bring from your skills and experiences as an executive. This will largely determine your potential contribution as a NED.

• We introduce you to a four-part framework to help review your career to date.

• We provide an exercise to help you conduct a skills and experiences audit.

Why work with NED Career Services and Mike Clancy for embarking on your Portfolio Career? 

NED Career Services was founded in 2018 and is now a market-leader in executive to non-executive career transition services, having worked with over 75 individuals who have embarked on a portfolio career journey. Mike Clancy is a member of the Financial Times Board Director Programme faculty and presents one of the leading workshops in the FT’s programme for aspiring NEDs. He is also an ambassador for Nurole and WB Directors, both leading online communities in the UK board director space. 

This webinar is for Impact Boards EM Members only. If you are not a member, you can sign up here and register. Recordings of the webinars, after they take place, will be available to all subscribed members on our website.