Boardroom Ready: the Executive's Guide to Presenting, Persuading, and Leading When Stakes Are Highest

A board meeting can turn on one question: What are you asking us to decide?Senior executives bring analysis, experience, and carefully prepared presentations to the boardroom. Yet a strong presentation does not always lead to a clear decision. Directors also need to understand the recommendation, the risks behind it, and how management will respond if its assumptions prove wrong.Boardroom Ready is a practical guide to those moments. Through fictional boardroom scenarios and exercises you can use before your next meeting, it shows how to make a clear request, present options and trade-offs, answer difficult questions, and handle disagreement without becoming defensive.The book also addresses conversations about transformation, AI and cyber risk, disappointing performance, and crisis. Its final chapter helps executives considering a board seat understand the different responsibilities that come with it.For CEOs and senior leaders who work with boards, Boardroom Ready offers a way to prepare for consequential conversations-and help the room move toward a sound decision.