Stakeholder Management for Boards

Understanding and managing stakeholders has become central to high-quality corporate governance, particularly as organizations are increasingly interdependent with a wider range of stakeholders around them.

Effective stakeholder management enables boards to identify, evaluate, and manage changes in their global business ecosystem that may have significant implications for their business strategy and their capacity to implement it. Yet many boards struggle to understand the complex dynamics presented by stakeholders and the strategic implications of stakeholder management.

With IMD’s Stakeholder Management for Boards, you will gain new insights into the broader stakeholder environment, how to integrate market and nonmarket strategies, and best practices for boards to ensure the organization and senior executives are attuned to the risks and opportunities. Through the program content’s theoretical and practical approaches, you will gain a more sophisticated understanding of stakeholder management and learn diverse tools that you can immediately apply to your organization to achieve best-in-class practices.

You can join the program for a standalone learning experience, or as part of one of IMD’s board diploma pathways .

Explore the role of key stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, and employees, and how to effectively engage with them.

Gain a robust understanding of nonmarket players: the dynamics, risks, opportunities and how to add value in this space.

Learn to navigate diverse and often incompatible stakeholder demands while aligning organizational purpose with key performance indicators (KPIs).

Learn how to ask the right questions and identify new opportunities, particularly in the nonmarket landscape.

Successful completion of this program takes you one step closer to joining IMD’s powerful alumni network.

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