Deriving More Value From The Boardroom

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Independent Directors can keep relevant, by integrating their thinking across multiple industries, thus contributing more than the average board member.

Host: Nancy May, CEO, BoardBench Companies

Guest: Michael J. Critelli, Board Member, Eaton Corporation; Director Emeritus, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals; Former CEO and Chairman, Pitney Bowes.

In this episode, Nancy May speaks with Mike Critelli, corporate director and former CEO of one of the most recognized Fortune 500 companies, about how he and his board peers bring out the best from the company leaders they oversee.

Learn more about his inside perspectives on:

• How good directors build their voices in the boardroom by aligning better with the company
• Its perspectives on: How good directors build their voices in the boardroom by aligning better with the company, its employees, customers and investors understanding when to best challenge the convictions of a CEOs
• Understanding and predicting the impacts of disruption
• How to keep your employees, customers and investors understanding when to best challenge the convictions of a CEOs
• Understanding and predicting the impacts of disruption
• How to keep your “hands on the steering wheel” and not become a “problem” director
• Understand that even the best challenge the convictions of a CEOs
• Understand that even the best intentions can go astray
• The challenges of CEO succession
• And, when all this happens at once, how to remain morally courageous, in even the worst times.

Michael J. Critelli serves on the board of Eaton Corporation and most recently served as Chief Executive, President and Director of Dossia Services Corporation, a personal and population health management systems company, from 2011 until 2016. In 2017 he served as the CEO of CloudParc, Inc., a smart cities and transportation technology company. He completed that assignment and retired as both an officer and director of CloudParc in December 2017. Mr. Critelli is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pitney Bowes Inc., a provider of global mailstream solutions. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pitney Bowes from 1997 to 2007 and as Executive Chairman from 2007 to 2008. Mr. Critelli served as a director of ProHealth Physicians, Inc. from 2012 until 2015. Director since 1998.