Special Focus On Diversity

One of the most prominent and publicized themes of the Business Roundtable's new governance guidelines is its significant emphasis on diversity in the board nominating process. This will add to the pressure on health system boards to increase their commitment to diversity in governance.

BRT's perspective that more diverse boards--including directors who represent the broad range of society--will strengthen board performance and contribute to the fundamental goal of creating long term value. To that end, BRT recommends that boards "develop a framework for identifying appropriately diverse candidates that allows the nominating/governance committee to consider women, minorities and others with diverse backgrounds as candidates for each open board seat."