Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 42 minutes ago
In this insightful keynote, Simi shares her journey into becoming a board member at various organizations. After sharing basic knowledge about how boards operate, she dives into how she became a Board member at a non-profit and more recently Board member at a Corporate Board.
Simi shares her tips and tricks to embark on that journey, emphasizing the crucial role of building the right connections and shutting down preconceptions that you must be C-level or Exec to land board roles.
She concludes with a long Q&A session answering a dozen of questions from the audience.
00:00 Introductions
00:22 Understanding Board Positions and Roles
04:42 Personal Journey to Board Membership
08:10 The Secret Sauce to Landing a Board Position
10:30 Life After Landing a Board Role
11:57 Key Takeaways and Concluding Remarks
13:18 Q&A Session
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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.
In this insightful keynote, Simi shares her journey into becoming a board member at various organizations. After sharing basic knowledge about how boards operate, she dives into how she became a Board member at a non-profit and more recently Board member at a Corporate Board.
Simi shares her tips and tricks to embark on that journey, emphasizing the crucial role of building the right connections and shutting down preconceptions that you must be C-level or Exec to land board roles.
She concludes with a long Q&A session answering a dozen of questions from the audience.
00:00 Introductions
00:22 Understanding Board Positions and Roles
04:42 Personal Journey to Board Membership
08:10 The Secret Sauce to Landing a Board Position
10:30 Life After Landing a Board Role
11:57 Key Takeaways and Concluding Remarks
13:18 Q&A Session
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This talk was recorded at Elevate 2023, Plato's flagship engineering leadership conference hosted in San Francisco on Nov 7 and 8 2023.
