TAILORED PARTNERSHIPS & TRAINING
Developing a generation of conscious and high performance board directors
PROGRAMS / WORKSHOPS LED BY FDI FOUNDER PAUL SMITH.
Accelerate your team into the future of governance.
Our mission is to help conscious leaders secure their ideal values-aligned board role(s), and become respected and recognised for their contribution inside and outside of the boardroom. We are passionate about developing the directors and boards of the future who are able to influence, innovate and create global change.
Since launching in 2015 we’ve helped thousands of diverse professionals around the world to launch and accelerate their board governance journeys.
As a people or community leader we understand that cultivating leadership is not just about how they lead from the inside, but what they do with their time on the outside.
This is where we come in. Backed by a team of experts, we’ve created a range of tailored active-learning solutions for companies and communities.
PROGRAMS WE SPECIALISE IN
Aspirational outcomes
Creating an enhanced leader inside and outside of your organisation
Tailored solution
Co-designed to suit your key challenges and desired outcomes
Active multimedia learning
Adaptive to the learning habits and geography of your people
Embedding proven methods
It only works, if it sticks.
FOUR KEY FEATURES
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Co-design and development
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One-off workshops or longer form programs
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Access an inspirational faculty of speakers & facilitators
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Always tailored to your needs, budget and desired outcomes
A SELECTION OF HAPPY CLIENTS
Prior to Paul’s workshops, the goal of creating meaningful change in the world through the boardroom felt overwhelming to many. During the sessions across Australia we were guided to a deeper understanding of the values which drive our leadership philosophy and pushed to clearly articulate our ‘why’.
Paul’s passion, charisma and unique talent for teaching left us inspired with a renewed confidence in our strengths and tangible plan for building our board careers.
Adrian O’Dea, Team Leader
Westpac Banking Group
Paul is both professional and friendly; but more importantly he designed and delivered an engaging, relevant and enjoyable workshop for adolescents and young adults. One of the attendees has said “although the workshop was short, Paul made a lasting impression. I gained invaluable insights into how to identify which board is right for me as a young person, and how to be a good Director”. CanTeen looks forward to a continued relationship with Future Directors to empower our aspiring and current Directors.
Natalie Hornyak, Leadership Coordinator
CanTeen
Delivered a variety of governance, leadership and communications workshops for their MBA students and alumni
Paul is a charismatic presenter who gave us a thought provoking and entertaining workshop that attendees were buzzing about as they walked out the door. He not only shared with us some amazing yet possible concepts, he showed us a few of his ideas in action, and there were quite a few "aha" moments in the audience. His style is engaging, challenging, and it kept everyone's attention from start to finish. As the event organizer, I personally found Paul to be incredibly flexible, communicative and a pleasure to work with. I'd bring him back any time.
Vicki Hawarden, CMP, Chair,
Govern for Impact Annual Conference
Delivered a tailored online solution to members of the MBA Alumni across the globe
Co-designed and delivered a six-month program for GGA, which was sponsored by the Australian Government.
Delivered ‘Getting into Governance’ workshops for new directors of national company
We engaged Paul and his Future Directors team to develop and deliver a “Get on Board” workshop for our younger Myer family members at their biennial retreat in 2017. The feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly positive. The group itself was a broad and diverse mix of young men and women at different stages of their journey, from the purely curious to those that already had governance experience. But, the active way that the workshop could position its key outcomes to suit the entire group was impressive.
Neal Harvey, Program Manager
The Myer Foundation
Deliver annual co-design and facilitation for their Board Observer Program.
Deliver annual governance and director recruitment workshops to social enterprise founders as part of the Macquarie Foundation Kickstarter Program
Facilitated a Women in Leadership working lunch on board governance for 30 senior female leaders