adsDEAR ASPIRING DIRECTOR
A board seat is not a trophy. It is an exchange.
There is a particular conversation I have been having with increasing frequency.
A woman arrives accomplished, credentialed, ready for her next chapter. She has built something, led something, or sat in a C-suite long enough to know the terrain. And she has decided, with clarity and conviction, that her next milestone is a board seat. She says it the way women say things they have earned the right to want: with quiet certainty, with the confidence of someone who has already done the harder thing.
I listen. And then I ask the question that changes the temperature of the conversation.adsads
