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MAY 17, 2023
POSE the ESOP Board
Article
| Education
Are ESOP Boards of Directors really that different?
FEB 15, 2023
The Waiting Game
Article
| Education
Best Practices for Board Candidate Follow Up
JAN 18, 2023
In The Board's Shadow
Article
| Education
How Shadow Boards raise the fiduciary Board's performance
MAY 18, 2022
The Poison Pill Defense
Article
| Education
Does a Shareholder Rights Plan always benefit the shareholder?
OCT 20, 2021
The Great CEO Swap Out
Article
| Education
As pandemic restrictions lift, CEO change will accelerate...
AUG 18, 2021
The Pre-IPO Board
Article
| Education
Preparing The Board of Directors Early in Anticipation of Going Public...
JUN 16, 2021
The Lake Wobegon Board
Newsletter
| Education
Are Boards overestimating their abilities and underestimating stakeholder repercussions?
MAR 17, 2021
The Risk & Values Alliance
Newsletter
| Education
Are Boards Forgetting The Basic Interrelationship of Risk and Values?
JAN 13, 2021
More Grits, Please!
Newsletter
| Education
The Growing Importance of Resilience in Next-Gen Directors...
JUL 15, 2020
Getting Back To Board Basics
Newsletter
| Education
How Boards Can Remain Grounded and a Calming Factor in an Increasingly Turbulent World...
OCT 16, 2019
Do You Do The D&O?
Newsletter
| Press Release
What Board Directors Must Know Regarding Indemnification and Insurance... << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 18, 2019
Creating a Cybersecurity-Savvy Board
Newsletter
| Press Release
A Ready-To-Use Framework For Intelligent & Holistic Engagement.... << Click on the title to read more >>
AUG 14, 2019
The ESG Challenge
Newsletter
| Press Release
How Boards Are Adapting To Environmental, Social, & Governance Issues...... << Click on the title to read more >>
MAY 15, 2019
The Art of Respectful Dissent
Newsletter
| Press Release
How tactful questioning elevates decision-making..... << Click on the title to read more >>
APR 17, 2019
The Board's Focus On HIAR
Newsletter
| Press Release
The Importance of the Employee Lifecycle - Hire, Inspire, Admire, Retire..... << Click on the title to read more >>
MAR 12, 2019
Amazon, Politics, and the Board
Newsletter
| Press Release
Skillfully maneuvering in a politically charged environment...... << Click on the title to read more >>
FEB 13, 2019
The Non-Executive Chairperson
Newsletter
| Press Release
Chairing the Board with an independent viewpoint....... << Click on the title to read more >>
JAN 16, 2019
The Board Decisioning Process
Newsletter
| Press Release
Adopting an effective & repeatable Board decisioning process... << Click on the title to read more >>
DEC 5, 2018
Top 5 Mistakes Board Candidates Make
Newsletter
| Press Release
Avoiding These Pitfalls Can Greatly Increase Your Chances of Appointment..... << Click on the title to read more >>
OCT 3, 2018
Do You Deal In Trust?
Newsletter
| Press Release
Elevating 'Trust Capital' within your Board & organization..... << Click on the title to read more >>
JUL 25, 2018
Repackaging the Board Observer
Newsletter
| Press Release
The expanding role beyond formal funding rounds....... << Click on the title to read more >>
APR 26, 2018
On The Board of Public Opinion
Newsletter
| Press Release
Recent woes highlight the more public role of Boards... << Click on the title to read more >>
MAR 21, 2018
This Is Us
Newsletter
| Press Release
A Board's reactive preparedness benefits the company it serves...... << Click on the title to read more >>
FEB 28, 2018
Creating Your Board Pitch Book
Newsletter
| Press Release
Representing Your Board's Brand to Attract Top Talent...... << Click on the title to read more >>
FEB 14, 2018
The Camel Committees
Newsletter
| Press Release
How a simple Board Committee 'tweak' reaped huge rewards..... < Click on the title to read more >>
JAN 25, 2018
A Brief History of Strategy
Newsletter
| Press Release
Strategy's inextricable link to the Board..... < Click on the title to read more >>
JAN 10, 2018
The Entrepreneurial Board Member
Newsletter
| Press Release
How an entrepreneurial thought process elevates Boards.... << Click on the title to read more >>
NOV 28, 2017
The Story of Company Values
Newsletter
| Press Release
How Roy E. Disney stuck to his Values and saved an empire.... << Click on the title to read more >>
OCT 18, 2017
Beware Zombie Directors!
Newsletter
| Press Release
Zombie Board Directors are real ...and they lurk within many public, private and nonprofit Boards .........<< Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 27, 2017
Cracks In The Company Foundation
Newsletter
| Press Release
The Board's role in identifying and addressing foundational risks hidden within private companies... << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 7, 2017
The Nonprofit Board Dilemma & How To Fix It
Newsletter
| Press Release
Nonprofit Boards and their organizations still experience exponentially higher risk in their effectiveness and efficiency. Time for a change... << Click on the title to read more >>
AUG 23, 2017
Is Your Board Thinking DPO?
Newsletter
| Press Release
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates that you have a Data Protection Officer (DPO) - Are You Ready?... << Click on the title to read more >>
JUN 21, 2017
Uber, Sexism & The Board
Newsletter
| Press Release
A Company's Culture Starts With The Board... << click on title to read more >>
JUN 7, 2017
Why Boards WannaCry
Newsletter
| Press Release
The Growing Burden of Cybersecurity on Boards............. << click on title to read more >>
MAY 31, 2017
LIFARS announces New Chairman of the Board
Announcement
| Press Release
Mark A. Pfister has been named the new Chairman of LIFARS effective June 1, 2017 ............. << click on title to read more >>
MAY 12, 2017
Boards and the Cybersecurity Challenge
Interview
| Press Release
Read Chairman & CEO Mark A. Pfister's interview by one of the top Digital Forensics and Cyber Investigations companies, LIFARS..... << Click on the title to read more >>
APR 27, 2017
3 Common Struggles of Private Company CEOs
Newsletter
| Press Release
Where most CEOs spend a majority of their time on a daily, weekly and monthly basis is incorrect and not properly balanced... and it is extremely obvious when viewing the performance of their companies......... << Click on the title to read more >>
APR 18, 2017
Business Radio Interview
Radio Interview
| Press Release
Our Chairman & CEO interviewed on 'Recalculating Radio'... << Click on the title to read more >>
JAN 12, 2017
Titans of Industry Lecture Series
Board Member
| Press Release
Mark A. Pfister to be a guest speaker at NYC's Union League Club on February 8th ...............<< click on the title to read more >>
NOV 11, 2016
If Not Now, When? A Tribute to Our Veterans
Blog
In honor of Veteran's Day, Colonel Jack Jacobs and all the men and women who have served in our Nation's Military...... << Click on the title to read more >>
OCT 31, 2016
Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid...
Blog
As it is the eve of All Hallows Saints, when things go bump in the night, it could be a good time to think about facing the scary and not-so-scary facts regarding your business and the technologies afforded to it...... << click on the title to read more >>
OCT 27, 2016
Lakshmi, Goddess of Prosperity
Blog
Many of our friends are celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights, this week. Perhaps the symbolism of this celebration is a good metaphor for the notion of taking stock..... << click on the title to read more >>
OCT 21, 2016
People, Planning, Profitability and Pumpkins
Blog
Here's hoping your company is rich in its harvest this season and primed for the year ahead. Plan for people, plan for progress and by all means plan for profitability... And don't forget the pumpkin pie!.... << click on the title to read more >>
OCT 12, 2016
Integral Board Group's Newest Board Member - Kenny Polcari
Board Member
| Press Release
At Integral Board Group, we know that we are only as good as our people. We strive to engage only top talent who are known experts in their fields. Join us in congratulating Kenny Polcari.... << click on the title to read more >>
OCT 10, 2016
Discovery and Conquest - Giving Is Good!
Blog
In fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
And found this land, land of the free, Beloved by you, beloved by me... << click on the title to read more >>
OCT 7, 2016
Blended is Better
Blog
The purpose of a Board of Directors is to support the Chief Executive's plan, provide strategic oversight and governance and insure shareholders and/or investors that their best interests are being looked after and that, ideally, profitability will result. << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 29, 2016
Hail to the Redskins, Hail Victory
Blog
Here's Heidi Diamond's take on what her beloved Redskins are doing to insure building a winning culture so, like their fight song says, they may "hail victory." << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 23, 2016
Don't Throw a Hail Mary: Scale With A Board
Blog
Are you ready to scale your business? Don't do it alone! Using an Advisory Board or Board of Directors to strategize a successful scaling process takes the pressure off small and midsize private companies trying go it alone. << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 15, 2016
No More Pain & Suffering
Blog
As the long suffering 'off the grid' entrepreneur, Richard, in HBO's comedy, Silicon Valley, our young friend has had to contend with a less than helpful VC, a contentious team wrapped up in their worry about share dilution, a VC anointed CEO, pivots, takeovers and bought and paid for upticks. Those that watch the critically acclaimed program feel Richard's pain. And I'm betting there are many CEO's out there that wish they had the help and cohesive thinking that a unified Board of Directors could provide... << Click on the title to read more >>
SEP 15, 2016
Integral Board Group's Newest Board Member - Heidi Diamond
Board Member
| Press Release
At Integral Board Group, we know that we are only as good as our people. We strive to engage only top talent who are known experts in their fields. Join us in congratulating Heidi Diamond.... << click on the title to read more >>
MAR 5, 2016
Reaching Your Company's Generational Resonance
Newsletter
| Press Release
For the first time in history, leaders and employees from 5 generations are interacting daily in the workplace... and this is an incredible concept to imagine. How do you successfully create and lead an environment with so many varying motivation, communication and work-style needs?
NOV 19, 2015
Why Age Discrimination Hurts Your Mom the Most
Published Quote
| TheStreet
This published 'TheStreet' article quotes Solange Charas, CHRO and Board Member of Integral Board Group offering insight into considerably stronger evidence of discrimination against older women as compared to older men.
NOV 16, 2015
Why Men Have More Help Getting to the C-Suite
Published Article
| Harvard Business Review
This published Harvard Business Review article (with co-author Solange Charas, CHRO and Board Member of Integral Board Group) offers insight into the genesis of mentor/sponsor relationships and provides advice about how all stakeholders (men, women, and organizational leaders) can make the playing field more fair.
NOV 11, 2015
Fashion Rental Sites Serve as Test Spaces for New Brands
Published Quote
| Ad Age
Mara Perlmutter, Retail Expert Board Advisor at Integral Board Group, is quoted in a recent Ad Age article regarding growing disruptive business models with upsides for both the retailer and manufacturer.
JUN 16, 2015
Mark A. Pfister Earns Professional Director Certification
Honorable Mention
| Press Release
Mark A. Pfister was awarded the Professional Director Certification from the American College of Corporate Directors, a public company directors education and credentialing organization.
APR 27, 2015
6 Ways to Coach Your Company's Teams to Be Champions
Published Article
| Entrepreneur Magazine
Just like managing a great sports team, managing a great workplace team requires talent, strategy and that certain "magic" that brings it all together. However that illusive magic doesn't have to be a mystery anymore. There's actual science that can be used to enhance your team and its effectiveness...
DEC 15, 2014
The Concept of a Board Service Provider (BSP)
Published Article
| College Publication
How a Board Service Provider model elevates businesses. Published in the Fort Schuyler Maritime Alumni Association Quarterly Newsletter.
NOV 24, 2014
Leveraging Market History to Guide Your Business
Newsletter
| Press Release
Role-Playing in Various Market Conditions - The importance of putting yourself through the simple exercise of evaluating your company's current projects/services and transporting yourself to a 100% customer's viewpoint.
SEP 25, 2014
Board Service Providers Taking Off
Honorable Mention
| Law Journal
Integral Board Group mentioned in UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge's Journal of Law, Politics, and Culture.
AUG 11, 2014
Project Management's Tie To Strong Leadership
Newsletter
| Press Release
Exceptional leadership is a noble quality to strive for and it is typically the most stated attribute when discussing a successful CEO, executive, board member or entrepreneur. Is leadership something you are born with or something you cultivate?
JUN 12, 2014
Boards and the 'Baby Boomer' Retirement Effect
Newsletter
| Press Release
Has enough strategic consideration been given to the significant business leadership experience, expertise and clout that will exit U.S. business organizations, and their boards, during the relatively short Baby Boomer retirement transition?
APR 8, 2014
Are Your Advisors Truly Advising?
Newsletter
| Press Release
The right Advisors are likely what your business is lacking to effectively grow and compete.
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