Women's Directorship Programme India
12-15 Nov 2025
WDP India
Women remain significantly underrepresented in boardrooms in India and around the world, but change is underway. Governments, stock exchanges, leading companies, and boards of directors are listening and taking action.
The Women’s Directorship Programme (WDP) – India is part of the highly acclaimed Women’s Directorship Programme launched in 2013 in partnership with The University of Hong Kong Business School. This transformative international board governance programme is designed to accelerate the advancement of women to corporate boards. Since its inception, WDP has graduated over 350 senior women executives from across the Asia Pacific region, with an impressive 75% of alumnae now serving on corporate boards globally.
Building on the successful launch of WDP India in 2024, the programme returns to Mumbai in 2025 to further its mission: to equip senior women executives with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to become impactful, ethical, and responsible board directors.
The four-day in person programme with one additional virtual module, will be held in Mumbai, India.
Module 1
The Roles and Responsibilities of Board Members
The first module of the programme provides participants with perspective on the roles of the board and supporting committees, plus practical insights regarding the roles and responsibilities of independent non-executive directors (INEDs) in terms of the finance, audit, risk oversight and remuneration committees. This module will discuss the typical responsibilities of the nomination committee and explore the most effective processes for making board appointments.
Module 2
Strategic Leadership
To achieve organisational goals, board directors as leaders, must collaborate with people across and outside of their organisational boundaries – serving to acquire new ideas and resources. This module will explore strategic thinking, focused on the benefits of various business models and their evolution, as well as understanding the key issues facing listed companies, and what and how to advise the board and managing executives.
Module 3
Ethics And Compliance
This module focuses on moral philosophy, organisational psychology, and cognitive biology, with an emphasis on communication and ethical reasoning skills that impact on professional performance. Two primary areas of business ethics will be highlighted – firstly how directors can utilise “moral architecture” to build mechanisms that help employees and executive teams avoid unethical behaviour.
Module 4
Hot Topics and Best Practice for Board Governance
We discuss the various liabilities and obligations for company directors, and take in the latest listing rules for public companies, for India and other markets. We look into the best practice - Boardroom hot topics including sustainability, cyber, risk, AI, transformation, succession planning, related party transactions.
Module 5
Board Dynamics
With an international Chair, we look at Boardroom Dynamics, Committee work (Audit, Gov, Risk, Nomco), and how to get on a board, and getting ready for your Board journey.
Module 6
Board Simulation
This simulation exercise enables participants to put lessons learned throughout the programme into practice. This module will explore how to operate legally, ethically and efficiently in the current economic and legal environment. Participants will discuss how making decisions causes a ripple effect across the entire business.
Module 7 (Virtual)
CID (Certified Self-Assessment Independent Director) India
This virtual module will help unpack the requirements for completing the online test to complete your programme
Other Details
Tuition fee: USD$5,250
Tuition includes some meals and materials, excludes accommodation
The Programme aims to open doors for the participants, serving to change the face of boardrooms worldwide.
Certification
There will be an exam that will be set to all participants (virtual) and upon successfully passing, a Certificate in Board Governance will be awarded by The Women’s Directorship Programme.
Past
Guest Speakers
Nick Allen
INED of HKEX, CLP
Sumit Seth
Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants LLP ESG Partner
Sutapa Banerjee
INED of Zomato,
Godrej, Polycab
Vinita Bali
INED of Cognizant &
former CEO Britannia
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