Become a Certified Board Member
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The module addresses the legal and corporate rights and duties of board members as well as the essential control parameters for successful board of director activity.
Learning Objectives (selection)
The module teaches you how a board of directors defines its strategic direction to ensure consistency and keep the company agile.
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The module addresses the key elements for the successful financial management of the company by the board of directors.
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The module addresses how a board of directors can manage the company’s HR strategy to ensure long-term success in an agile environment.
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The module addresses the role of the board of directors in terms of innovation, digital transformation and change, which have a significant effect on the future development of the company.
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Optionally, you can attend a three-day module that prepares you for the special challenges of serving on a foundation board.
Switzerland is home to a diverse foundation landscape. The demands on foundation boards are constantly increasing, and the need to professionalize the highest body is growing. In the seminar, you will acquire the tools you need for participating competently in the foundation board. Participants of the CAS – Board of Directors who attend the seminar receive an extended certificate from Rochester-Bern.
Specialization Module for Foundation Boards
The seminar for Foundation Boards provides the theoretical and practical tools for professional action in a challenging environment.
Learning Objectives (selection)
With the CAS Board of Directors, you can professionalize your board activities. You will benefit from exchanging ideas with directors in other industries and deepen your practical and theoretical knowledge.
This university-based continuing education program focuses on the Swiss SME landscape and ensures knowledge transfer for long-term success.
The course starting in August is fully booked. There is a waiting list. Please note that courses and dates can be subjects to change.
The performance assessments are an important part of the practical learning in the program. Following each module, you independently solve a practice-relevant knowledge transfer task in which you apply the knowledge you have acquired to your work on the board of directors or foundation board. Thus, the company benefits directly from your participation in the course.
The course is aimed at active members of the boards of directors and foundation boards. Individuals interested without a mandate can apply sur dossier.
The course is designed for
A diverse composition of the CAS class is important to us, and we therefore focus on the personal interview, which follows after you submit the application. Statements on your professional career, ambitions, (planned) activities on the board of directors, and your motivation for this further education program help us to optimally select course participants.
The fee for the five modules is CHF 14,800. The fee for the seminar for foundation boards is an additional CHF 3,500.
The program fee includes participation in the program, electronic course materials, lunch on course days, one dinner per module, refreshments during breaks, examination fees, and the closing ceremony. Participants are responsible for any overnight expenses.
The course materials are provided electronically; participants use their own laptop (or tablet) in class.
Members of our partners can benefit from discounts. Our partners are listed here.
You can complement this course with further Rochester-Bern programs on a modular basis within five years. Earn a DAS (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in General Management with one further CAS program (and a final thesis) within five years, or a MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) in General Management with four further CAS programs (and a final thesis).
Academic Management
Prof. Dr. Claudio Loderer, Delegate of the Board of Trustees, the William E. Simon Foundation, Switzerland
Co-Founder and Consulting
Franziska Hügli, lic.rer.pol. Entrepreneur and member of the board of directors of SMEs Prof. Dr. Urs Wälchli, lecturer, entrepreneur, board member and expert in entrepreneurial finance
Overall Responsibility
Prof. Dr. Petra Joerg, CEO, Rochester-Bern Executive Programs
An advisory board of entrepreneurial leaders helps to define the focus, assure the quality and anchor the program in the business landscape.
Download the application package and complete it electronically. If a signature is required, please print out the document and sign and scan it. You can then upload the completed documents to the application portal. The following documents are required for a complete application. In addition, all terms and conditions must be read and accepted.
Once your complete application has been uploaded, we will contact you about dates for an interview.
A personal interview will be conducted to determine if your qualifications and specific needs match the program.
The admission decision is made after the interview.
In our classes, we seek to combine a diversity of profiles to provide you with the most beneficial classroom experience and professional network possible. Here you can find the statistics of a typical class.
Gender (female students) |
Avergage Age |
29% | 51 |