Closing The Confidence Gap: Why Even Great CEOs Feel Like Frauds
(and How to Fix It)
Presented by Preston Poore
November 26, 2025
3pm EST
You may feel confident in your board role, but your day to day habits in the boardroom could be quietly increasing your personal liability.
In this Boardroom Insider Webinar, Ralph Ward shines a light on the risks most directors and chairs never see coming. From the way you handle online meetings to what ends up in your minutes and email trail, you will learn how everyday board routines can create personal exposure. Walk away knowing where the real landmines are and how to protect yourself and your organization.
Meet Ralph Ward
Ralph Ward is an internationally-recognized writer and commentator on the role of boards of directors, the secrets of how benchmark boards excel, gaining a board seat, and the future of governance worldwide.
Ward is the publisher of the online email newsletter Boardroom INSIDER, the worldwide source for practical, first-hand advice on better boards and directors.
He is author of the books Board Seeker: Your Guidebook and Career Map into the Corporate Boardroom (2018), Boardroom Q&A (2011), The New Boardroom Leaders (2008), Saving the Corporate Board (2003), Improving Corporate Boards: The Boardroom INSIDER Guidebook (2000), and 21st Century Corporate Board (1997).
Ward is a CPD-certified trainer, and speaks internationally on board and governance topics, and presents a “Boardroom Masterclass” seminar worldwide, with recent programs in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. His media appearances including CNNfn, C-SPAN, Voice of America, Bloomberg Money Show, National Public Radio, Marketplace, and CNBC (U.S. and U.K.).
Ward has also edited The Corporate Board magazine, the international journal of corporate governance, since 1990. He writes and comments on boardroom matters for a number of other publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Across the Board, Crains, Vital Speeches, the Detroit Free Press, Barrons and INC.com., and serves on several advisory and non-profit boards.
