Women Corporate Directors Call to Action

I just returned from the Women Corporate Directors Global Summit in New York - one of the most interesting and inspiring meetings I've attended in years.  Directors of both public and private companies from around the world gathered to discuss pressing issues of governance and risk...from managing CEO succession to the importance of cities, to the pending water crisis.  First-rate discussions.

The WCD also issued a "Call to Action":

"WCD Challenges Every Leader to Actively Help Bring More Women onto Corporate Boards, and to Build Diverse Boards that are Multi-Gender, Multi-Skilled, Multi-National, Multi-Ethnic, and Multi-Generational"

1.  Build the pipeline through Advocacy and Mentorship
2. Assure every director slate includes at least one woman.
3.  Declare Board diversity a necessary component of good governance.
4. Turn CEOs into champions and Change Agents
5. Expand the pool.
6. Provide specific Board training.
7. Sponsor more research.
8. Report and write about the issue.
9. Refer women to Board seats.
10. Exercise all of your rights as a shareholder. 

Organizations concerned about the future cannot afford to not use all the brainpower available  -- read the whole "Call to Action" --
http://www.womencorporatedirectors.com/associations/9942/files/05-18-11_WomenCorporateDirectors_Call_to_Action_release_FINAL.pdf