Bob Massengill will be joining Alex Moss and Mary Beth Gray at this year’s National ESOP Association Conference in Washington, DC for an interactive mock board meeting of an ESOP company.

During our session, “Mock Board Meeting: Recognizing & Managing Conflicts”, we will present the details of an imaginary company created for purposes of this discussion. We act out the board / committee discussion in real time, starting with the circumstances of our imaginary company and adding flavor from the real Board experiences of the panelists. We break several times mid-stream to invite audience questions and discussion of their experience and perspectives then return to the “meeting” to continue real-time discussion.

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize what conflicts are, how they may show up in the governance context.

• Formulate sensible responses by the Board, once conflicts have been identified.

• Demonstrate how the Board may act to mitigate conflicts and/or remove conflicted parties.