Course curriculum

  1. You don't need to "go it alone"

  2. The Board Mastermind community

  3. A safe space for robust, confidential conversations you won't get anywhere else

  4. Four sessions, four speakers (February-May 2025)

  5. Please see below and email us for more details at [email protected].

About this course

  • $400.00
  • 5 lessons

What the CBSS Offers

Why participate in the Corporate Board Speaker Series? Who will you meet? What will you learn?

  • Guidance and networking from speakers (recruiters, current board members, board experts and others) in facilitated discussions with Anne Marie Segal

  • Continued support of and networking with members of your Mastermind Cohort

  • Opportunities to develop and deepen relationships with members of other DA/CB Mastermind Cohorts

  • See more details below!

Who can join this program?

Please review the eligibility requirements before enrolling.

  • Access to the CBSS program is limited to members of the DA/CB Mastermind.

  • To maintain the small-group atmosphere that is a hallmark of The Board Mastermind program, we will limit each session to a maximum of 12 participants.

  • If less than 5 participants indicate that they will be attending any individual CBSS session, SC may (on a case-by-case basis) offer a spot to a Mastermind member who has not registered for the entire series. This guest-access will only be available once during the series for each guest.

  • By joining this program, you give Segal Coaching LLC permission to circulate your board bio and resume to board recruiters and any speakers who participate in the Mastermind program and/or CBSS.

Session Dates & Times

All meetings are on Thursdays at 3:00-5:00 pm ET / 2:00-4:00 pm CT / 12:00-1:00 pm PT.

  • Session 1: February 20, 2025

  • Session 2: March 27, 2025

  • Session 3: April 24, 2025

  • Session 4: May 22, 2025

The year passes sooner than you think.

Prioritize your priorities!

Instructor(s)

Executive Coach / Facilitator Anne Marie Segal

ANNE MARIE SEGAL, founder and principal of Segal Coaching LLC, partners with board candidates, General Counsel and other senior and rising executives to expand their impact and advance their leadership trajectories.

As an executive coach and professional writer since 2015, Anne Marie works with individual clients at key transition points in their careers and on longer-term personal branding and leadership development projects. A significant number of these clients have partnered with Anne Marie for five years or more and sought her support through multiple job changes and/or promotions, including first-time and successive C-Suite roles.

She has also launched a board candidate mastermind and several senior leadership cohorts that offer opportunities for facilitated discussions, group coaching and professional networking.

ANNE MARIE SEGAL, fundadora y directora de Segal Coaching LLC, se asocia con candidatos a la junta, asesor general y otros ejecutivos senior y en ascenso para ampliar su impacto y avanzar en sus trayectorias de liderazgo.

Como coach ejecutiva y escritora profesional desde 2015, Anne Marie trabaja con clientes individuales en puntos clave de transición en sus carreras y en proyectos de desarrollo de liderazgo y marca personal a largo plazo. Un número significativo de estos clientes se han asociado con Anne Marie durante cinco años o más y han buscado su apoyo a través de múltiples cambios de trabajo y/o promociones, incluidos puestos de C-Suite por primera vez y sucesivos.

También ha lanzado un grupo "mastermind" para candidatos a la junta directiva y varios grupos de liderazgo senior que ofrecen oportunidades para debates facilitados, entrenamiento grupal y establecimiento de contactos profesionales.

Anne Marie Segal

Executive & Leadership Coach

Segal Coaching LLC

[email protected]

The Board Mastermind - CBSS

The Corporate Board Speaker Series



If you are entirely honest with yourself, it's exceedingly hard to prioritize (and continue to prioritize) a board search. So hard that it can be exhausting at times, and the only thing getting you through it to remind yourself why you are doing it.

(And a little help from your friends in The Board Mastermind.)

No, it's not just you. Corporate board search is hard for nearly every candidate, and it's hard in a different, more profound way than searching for your next executive role. In fact, it's different and possibly harder than anything you have ever done before.

OK, a few have it easier, and that very fact makes it even harder for everyone else. That's "what is." It's up to you to take that in and move beyond it.

Treat it like pebbles in your shoe, NOT a locked door.

Shake out your shoe, put it back on, and keep walking.



That's why we are here. That's why we started a DA/CB Board Mastermind, and why we have launched The Corporate Board Speaker Series.

We are here to create a community of truly talented board candidates and help make it easier for them make a lasting difference in the world through their board service.

We are here to level the playing field at the board level, because the tone at the top sets the stage for everywhere and everything.



There are many moving parts in a board search, and you need to get them all to move in the right direction.

You need to find and maintain the motivation to keep doing it. And not once in a while, but on a consistent basis. 

You know that's the case - again, it's "what is" - and that in itself can feel overwhelming.

Sometimes weeks or months can go by, and you realize that you haven't invested the time to make significant progress.

What does significant progress even look like? Can you measure it? Yes, you can!

You can and should measure and celebrate the milestones on your path to a corporate board role. These efforts will not be in vain, and your investment in yourself will continue to serve you in the years to come



When you do commit yourself to the search and are ready to show up and jump the hurdles to get there, it still can be a solitary journey.

Being selected for a corporate board isn't easy, after all. If it was, many more people would want to do it.  

You are doing something above and beyond what most of your close colleagues and friends have elected as next steps for themselves. 

Your historical peer group is not aligned with this path. They will continue to support you, but you need to tap into a robust, vibrant and well-connected community for this significant stage and aspect of your professional journey.

They will see you in a new light, and you will return the favor.



Remember that you chose the corporate board path because it's an optimal way to leverage your talents in the next phase of your career or complement the great work you are already doing.

You chose to "self-select" for corporate board work, because you know that you will be a phenomenal addition to a board of directors. 

Now, stop beating yourself up about how things always don't happen as quickly as we want them to materialize and remember the gifts you have to offer the world (and a corporate board).

Tap into the power of The Board Mastermind community



The Corporate Board Speaker Series of The Board Mastermind is designed to continue your progress toward your first or a subsequent board seat.

Here is what you can expect:

1) a safe space for robust conversations about board-readiness and the challenges and opportunities facing board members, including diverse candidates and attorneys,

2) opportunities to maintain and grow your network with current, seasoned board members who will be sharing hard-fought insights with you,

3) continued connection with the community of fellow Board Mastermind members and the facilitator, and

4) an earmarked space on your calendar to continue to commit to your board search among competing priorities.



If you wish to join the CBSS program and continue prioritizing board readiness, please come ready to actively engage and use this group as a springboard for your board search.

Speakers will be seasoned board members, recruiters and/or others who are well-connected to the corporate board community.

FINAL DATES AND SPEAKER BIOS TO COME.  

Please register directly or email us at [email protected] if you are interested in this program.

The DA/CB: The Board Mastermind

Click here details about our flagship (Level 1) program and additional speakers who have presented to the Board Mastermind. Note that the price listed below is a placeholder and not reflective of our current offerings. Please see the upcoming Cohort for all relevant details.

  • $2,000.00

    Welcome to the Diverse Attorneys/Corporate Boards (DA/CB) Mastermind

    The DA/CB Mastermind was launched in September 2022. Since then, we have partnered with 16 attorneys in three small-group Cohorts. In May 2024, we also launched the Corporate Board Speaker Series (CBSS) program to help diverse attorney corporate board candidates who have completed the initial Mastermind program to continue to prioritize their board search and build connections in the corporate board community.
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