Burak Kocer

Family business Thinking Column posts by Burak Kocer
adding independent directors to your board

Leaving Your Comfort Zone: Adding Independent Directors To Your Board

The Board of Directors is where the will of owners turns into action. It is also one of the most challenging steps to take for a business owner as they may be advised to do things differently. To be more specific, in almost all family business governance assignments that I have been involved globally, the top of actionable items list has been to add independent directors to the board. Yet only a small portion of business owners easily adopt this idea to change the board composition…