Engaged Directors, Effective Boards

Welcome to the
New Jersey Chapter of NACD

The New Jersey Chapter of NACD is dedicated to supporting area directors' efforts in becoming strategic assets and sources of competitive advantage at this time of unprecedented change and challenge for boards. In addition, we are pleased to provide our members with focused opportunities to help New Jersey become a great place for business.


NACD's Mission
Founded in 1977, the National Association of Corporate Directors is the only non-profit membership organization dedicated exclusively to serving the corporate governance needs of directors and boards.

NACD's mission is to achieve improved corporate governance through better board practice.

By offering education, information, conducting independent research, and disseminating leading practices, NACD provides resources for increasing director and board effectiveness.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

This Year's Blue Ribbon Commission:
Board and Shareholder Communication

The NACD-NJ program season will close with a truly special dinner event featuring Barbara Hackman Franklin, one of the most accomplished business minds and corporate governance experts in the country sharing her unrivaled insight on the topic of board and shareholder communication – also the subject of the report due to be released this fall.

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[THIS EVENT STARTS AT 5:00pm ]

Upcoming Seminars

» New England Chapter Event
   June 10, 2008
   TBA
» The Lead Director: The Job Defying Description
  June 12, 2008
  Boston, MA
» Comprehensive Strategies for Setting Pay:
The Science and Art of "How Much"
  June 24, 2008
   Webcast
» Entire NACD Event Calendar

Coming Soon To Corporate Governance: Common Sense
By Mark Sickles, President, NACD-NJ

In order to transform corporate governance into a “common sense” chain of logical conclusions worthy of our highest praise, we need to break the chain of conventional wisdom and past practice. The key ingredients to this breakthrough opportunity are the courage and commitment to challenge basic assumptions and the traditional ways of doing things. Let’s start by challenging one of governance’s best known sacred cows: “noses in, fingers out.”

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New Jersey Chapter 2008 Sponsors
Founding Sponsor
JH Cohn
Annual Sponsor
Fairleigh Dickinson Battlia Winston Peapack-Gladstone Bank Gibbons PC
Marsh Frederick W. Cook Peapack-Gladstone Bank KPMG

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