Award-winning Non-Executive Director and best-selling author Jo Haigh will bring an interactive workshop which will leave you with a first-class toolkit to begin or expand your journey into a non-executive portfolio career.

With an increasing appetite for a portfolio career whatever stage in your life you are, having a seat or more on various boards can be an attractive, lucrative and highly enjoyable alternative, compared to a full-time executive position.

This online workshop will provide an introduction to the world of the non-executive director (NED) and aims to provide you with real first-hand practical tips on what the role actually includes and importantly how to access them.

With over six million business in the UK, opportunities exist in a variety of organisations such as: Supporting the board of an entrepreneurial owner-manager, joining a public body, such as an NHS trust, on their largely NED predominant boards), sitting on a housing association board, or for a more altruistic position, on a not for profit or charity or even an academy school (where a business background can add so much to the value to the organisation).

What the workshop will cover:

• Explore why you want to be a non-executive director
• What are the essential skills you need to perform at world-class level?
• Getting noticed including: A killer NED CV, highlighting your position as a thought leader and how to stand out from the crowd
• Pre-appointment due diligence
• Contracting with the organisation and protection tools including: what to put in a contract and what is a reasonable fee and commitment.

The Business Masterclass Series:

This workshop is a part of a series of four interactive workshops being presented by Jo, covering essential skills and insights for directors. The other workshops in the series are:

• How to Build a Board of World-Class Directors
• Understanding Finance for Non-Financial Directors
• A Director's Guide to Being the Best in The Business

The cost to attend each workshop individually is £225. If you registered for all four workshops separately the cost would be £900. However, this is reduced to £750 for advanced bookings when registering for the whole series - which is a £150 discount. To book on to the Masterclass Series please click here. Please note the same dates apply.

About the host:

Jo Haigh is the CEO and founder of fds, which is a boutique corporate finance house and has bases in London, Birmingham and Yorkshire. Since 1989 Jo has bought and sold approximately 400 companies, specialising in owner-managed companies.

In the 90s Jo created a specialist director training division, which has been highly successful since inception. She is a regular presenter on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions for prestigious organisations across the UK and Europe.

Jo has been presented with many prestigious industry awards such as the IoD Yorkshire & North East regional awards Non-Exec Director of The Year, the Business Service Award on behalf of the CBI, First Women Awards, The Sunday Times NED of the Year, in association with Peel Hunt and Business Advisor of the Year from the IoD. In addition, Jo is also the author of seven business support books.

Jo also provides board support via her Non-Executive Director appointments for a number of prestigious companies based across England and the Isle of Man and has held over 40+ Non-Exec roles throughout her career.