Looking to fill those vacant board positions? Look to LEAD, a collection of board-ready executives Boards play a crucial role in building successful organisations, economies and communities. Strong Board leadership and governance delivers the required confidence that enables investment and growth. But, how do you find and build the appropriate board team, efficiently and affordably? This is the problem that the founders of the League of East African Directors (LEAD) sought to solve.

LEAD is a not-for-profit organization which was formed after realising that many East African companies in need of directors did not have a consolidated reference point for selection and training of active and potential directors and tended to rely on personal references and “club” like structures to make board level appointments. Its mission is the equipping of boards, by ensuring a deliberate improvement in diversity on East African corporate boards. One of the interventions that LEAD has undertake is the development of a targeted database of ready-to-lead corporate executives with diverse experience, skills, expertise and diversity. Here below we present to…