The document provides guidance on creating a board ready profile. It outlines key areas to focus on such as understanding your audience, highlighting relevant experiences and qualifications, and emphasizing accomplishments. Sample profiles and descriptions are also included to demonstrate how to structure your experience, contributions, and skills in a concise yet impactful way. The goal is to craft a customized board profile and online presence that clearly communicates your leadership abilities and suitability for board roles.

1. Creating Your Board Ready Profile
Ranjana Deopa
COO & Head- Board Practice
Biz Divas Foundation

2.  Understand your Audience
 Create your “Board Profile”
 Highlight experiences, expertise &
Qualifications
 Include & Emphasize accomplishments
Executive Resume

3.  P&L Operational Roles
 Financial Expertise & Accounting
 Industry Experience
 International Experience
 Marketing and Innovation
 Cyber Security & Social Media
 Risk Management & Strategy
 HR & Compensation Expertise
 Legal
What Skills do I Need
Boards needs vary, However

4.  Who is your audience ?
 What is important to your audience?
 Structure your profile to fit the role
Understand your Audience

5. This is a three sentence description of you as a
Director candidate, focusing on you as a leader,
strategic advisor , collaborator and industry
expert
Board Profile

6. Highly qualified Executive Manager offering more
than 20 years of financial management
experience within the financial industry. Results
focussed and effective leader with proven ability
to turnaround financially troubled companies.
Talent for proactively identifying and resolving
problems and delivering high shareholder value.
Sample -Board Profile

7.  Introduction to the company
Cybersecure is a Software MNC and Industry Leader in providing cyber security solutions to
private and public companies that enables sharing and access to information securely across
networks.
 Scope
Strategy P & L Management : 800 Employees : 15 Direct Reports : Manage all operations, finance
product development, marketing and sales
 Summary of Contributions
Grew revenue to Rs 550 cr in the past 2 years , expanded the team to 800 from 500, led sales
growth by 35%. Established and secured Industry leadership position.
 Selected Accomplishments
 Product Innovation, Development & Launch
 Business Strategy & Revenue Growth
 Team Building & Leadership
 International Expansion
Sample-Professional experience

8.  Visionary leadership
 Goal Setting & Strategic Planning
 Strategic Advisor
 Working collaboratively
 Strong Communication skills
 Industry expertise
 Financial acumen
 Problem solving abilities
 Fund raising abilities
 Public / Community relations
Key Words-Accomplishments & past
experiences

9.  Adds to your value proposition
 Supports your candidacy.
Community involvement, recognition
and awards.

10.  Keep it updated
 Highlight Board Readiness
 Summarise your experience
 Should be an Executive Summary of your resume.
 Join Relevant Linkedin groups
 Highlight speaker opportunities, volunteering,
project work etc
 Linkedin Pulse
Linkedin Profile

11. Aparna Yadav
An effective strategist, she has the ability to spot future trends, bring exciting
ideas to market and deliver the required return on investment. Equally, she excels
in execution and operations in a consumer business that is continuously impacted
and shaped by the global economy and environment. Prior to her current
assignment,she was the Chief Operating Officer of Redboard and a member of the
management board. She was a founding member of the People India
Experience Society that created the first global campaign for marketing India .She
was recognised as the most powerful woman in the travel industry worldwide by
Travel Agent, a leading trade weekly.
Sample Summary Linkedin

12. Sample-Skills Linkedin

13.  Executive Resume- Board Profile, Customization,
Experience, Accomplishments etc
 Linkedin profile - Updated, Summary of Executive
resume, Groups, Skills etc
Summary

14. Thank You