  HOW DO YOU UNLOCK THE ALPHA FROM DIVERSE BOARD DIRECTORS? WHAT DO BOARD CHAIRS HAVE TO DO TO ACCESS THE MAGIC FROM DIVERSE BOARD DIRECTORS? WHAT DO DIVERSE DIRECTORS NEED TO DO TO BE INFLUENTIAL? WHAT ARE THE HALLMARKS OF DIVERSE THINKING? HOW DOES BEING DIVERSE IMPACT ON DIVERSE THINKING? WHAT DO FELLOW DIRECTORS NEED TO DO TO SUPPORT DIVERSE DIRECTORS? HOW DO YOU GROW YOUR DIVERSE THINKING CAPABILITIES? Following on from the Top Diverse Board-ready Directors List 2021 and the Emerging Directors supported by the Ministry of Ethnic Communities, the Superdiversity Institute wants to ensure that diverse directors are influential once they get appointed onto boards, so they have longevity and thrive and succeed. The Superdiversity Institute in exclusive partnership with Frank & The Knowledge Hunters want to research and dig deeper into these issues. Join us for a zoom series starting on Wednesday 27 October 2021 from 12-1pm where a panel of diverse thinking chairs and directors speak about these issues. Your contributions will be written up and posted on the Superdiversity Institute’s website to grow the knowledge on this important issues. To register click the Register Here button below. Please follow the link and enter your details and a zoom link will be sent to the email provided closer to the date. Register Here for the Zoom Seminar Further announcements will be made on the next Diverse Thinking Capability Audit of New Zealand Boardrooms. You can read the first Audit here: http://www.superdiversity.org/research-reports/reports/diverse-thinking-capability-audit-of-new-zealand-board-rooms-2018/ The Super Diversity Institute is excited to announce a new partnership. Frank & The Knowledge Hunters will be the exclusive Executive search sponsor of The Superdiversity Institute. Frank & The Knowledge Hunters are one of New Zealand’s leading evidence-based Executive Search specialists. Directors Geoffrey McDowell & Howard Ross say: Our model, focusing on precision, evidence-based research, and meticulous attention to detail is perfectly suited to the modern-day Director search. We seek to discover exceptional Directors who meet the cultural, skills and experience considerations, but who also bring the diversity of thought needed to help guide companies into the future. We see Board diversity as being achieved when Boards have a balance and mix of skills, knowledge, experience, and a range of diversity dimensions, to foster constructive debate and avoid groupthink within the Boardroom. In launching our Director Search offering, we have aligned ourselves with Mai Chen and the Superdiversity Institute. In our independent research into what Boards are seeking, the critical finding is that diversity of thought is a ‘must-have’. This is emphatically aligned with the kaupapa that Mai and the Superdiversity institute is fostering. We are excited to be working with Mai, her team and the Superdiversity Institute to help achieve the ‘diversity dividend’ goal, in this case through the promotion of diversity in the Boardroom by searching for and supporting the appointment of Directors with an innate ability to think differently. Nga mihi, Mai Chen Chair of the Superdiversity Institute |