The Conference Board Councils give you access to an elevated level of conversation you won't find anywhere else. When you join, you become part of a select group of senior executives who occupy similar roles at leading companies and organizations. Through in-person meetings and rich connections you can tap any time, you will gain insights beyond your industry or region. You get the rare chance to talk with peers about issues, explore solutions, and develop lasting relationships. The result: cutting-edge ideas that change your perspective, jump-start progress, and save you time.
Enduring relationships with trusted peers are the core of the Council experience. Enhanced by our global, enterprise-wide reach, these relationships span the world and extend the value of Council membership. Confidential peer dialogue provides you with a broader perspective and shared experiences, as well as access to specific knowledge and best practices.
Councils are limited to 40 members who are carefully vetted to ensure a right fit. Council seats are available for individuals or corporate members for a fee.
Members drive content, incorporating their pressing issues into discussions
Enjoy candid exchanges in a relaxed environment
Access an exclusive community of true peers
Members spans industries and geographies, giving you a high-level perspective of the business environment
All meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, and group size is limited
Learn how Member companies are tackling common challenges today
Join a community of senior executives to share knowledge, insights, and
leading practices in a private, exclusive setting.
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Asia Business Women Leaders Council
Asia CFO Council
Asia Corporate Development Council
Asia Innovation Council
Asia Strategy, Transformation and Growth Council
China CFO Council
I was looking to recraft the “how to win” strategies for my team. Conversations with members, experts, authors, and entrepreneurs helped me to recast the strategy. The network also helps to build skills. Webcasts led to contacts that we tapped for stepping up creativity for a select group of colleagues in my organisation. Overall it has been an enriching experience.
Krishna Mohan Suri
Chief R&D Officer, Universal Robina Corporation
Asia Innovation Council
The Council has expanded not only my networking possibilities but also my recognition of the value of learning from a variety of diverse organizations. The quality of external guest speakers has proven to be captivating and enlightening. It truly offers an excellent platform for exchanging our collective knowledge within a secure and nurturing space. Overall, participating in communities like this has contributed significantly to my professional growth and development.
Katty Masci
Regional Learning & Talent Performance Consultant, Chevron
Asia Learning, Development & Culture Council
The Council serves as an immeasurably useful source of information, experience, ideas and tools that I can tap into. The quality of input from my peers is high and the responsiveness of the staff of The Conference Board is quick and reliable. This is a tremendous resource I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone in a position similar to mine.
Trevor D'Cruz
Vice President Legal, APAC, Herbalife
Asia Chief Legal Officers' Council
I find great value in Council meetings. Their in-house experts and invited speakers from cross-industrial sectors are very knowledgeable, sharing their insights, research outcomes, and proven practices as well as the emerging trends. We also have opportunities to join other Council meetings to get updates from different geographies. The Council serves as a great platform for learning, sharing, benchmarking, and collaboration.
Lingzhen Dong
Asia Pacific Region Environmental Product Compliance and Sustainability Director, Johnson & Johnson
China Sustainability Leaders Council
Being on the Council has been a valuable and interesting experience for me. Chatham House rules apply, so we’ve had some very honest conversations and best practice sharing. The regular whitepapers and business updates have been very useful to understand perspectives on our world.
Debbie Mannas
Head of OD and Talent, Asia, Sun Life Asia
I have found The Council an extremely useful resource and forum as I am able to dip into the broad and diverse experience of my fellow members. The meeting agendas are decided by us and are therefore very pertinent. The discussions are meaningful and practical. The facilitation is top quality with experienced people leading the same. On top of this, the wide-ranging resources and material on the website are a big bonus.
Sandeep Mehta
Global Services Center Leader, Corteva Agriscience
As a member of the Council, I get access to a global community as well as local connections. The member-led agenda enables us to focus on what is top of mind in a disruptive environment and the peer-to-peer interaction allows me to incorporate the outside in views when making strategic choices on where and how we prioritize our people investment.
Michelle Leung
Vice President, Human Resources, International Markets, Cigna International Corporation
The Conference Board is a great platform for exchanging experiences and thoughts. Open and honest dialogues among members lead to positive and meaningful change. The sharing from external speakers also helps members to evolve better. Really enjoy the opportunities to meet with peers, friends and professionals.
Annie Chen
Greater China Area Total Rewards & Service Leader, 3M
It is great to be able to exchange ideas, problems, and opportunities with fellow professionals from different industries and geographies. The discussions combine theory behind certain topics as well as real-life examples and insightful stories of the members. This helps a lot when you are on a journey of change in your role and can learn from others who are on a similar journey or have been there already.
Ruddy Sterckx
Operations Director, Coca-Cola Company
The Council is a very high-quality intellectual platform that provides great timely services, updates, and analysis; a platform to have active and diverse exchanges of views, and a sphere to broaden and deepen knowledge beyond one’s own industry that we might otherwise neglect. The Conference Board has a great variety of subject-specific programs and vast offerings of webcasts, analysis, and reports. My company and I benefited a lot from these.
Li Wan
Vice President, Government Affairs, Audi China
China Government Affairs Council
Today we all need a supporting system and also be part of a supporting system to thrive in a more challenging and dynamic environment. Thanks to The Conference Board for setting up such a great forum that enables us to build broader networking, connection, and partnership across different industries and companies and support each other with deep insight into hot subjects, outside-in perspectives as well as pragmatic experiences and practices.
Angela Zhou
Head of HR, Greater China, Philips Electronics Group
China Human Resources Council
The Conference Board provides members an excellent platform to learn and share knowledge, gain diverse views, insights, and perspectives. In addition, members are given the opportunity to constantly learn from best practices, stay relevant with regularly updated trends and development, and network with excellent industry professionals/experts.
Chris Tan
VP, Human Resources, Jabil
Asia Learning, Development & Culture Council
The Conference Board is a fabulous platform to connect with like-minded professionals. I am constantly impressed by the wealth of experience and knowledge fellow members bring, their willingness to share and help each other learn, solve problems and just improve as a professional trying to navigate the complex corporate sustainability landscape. I also find the resources that The Conference Board offers very useful.
Norman Chua
Head of Sustainability – Asia Region, Chevron Phillips Chemicals Asia Pte Ltd
The Conference Board is a great platform for senior business and functional leaders to network, exchange best practices and build thought leadership across multiple industries. The value extends into pulsing the current business challenges and staying ahead of the curve to anticipate, respond and execute pragmatic thought leadership for future growth opportunities.
Dr. Roland Yap
Regional Head Asia Pacific, Novartis
The Conference Board Councils provide a great platform for pulling excellent people who have shared values and common interests together; with a group of talented professionals leading the initiatives.
Daniel Deng
Vice President, Ingersoll Rand (now Trane Technologies)
I really value the insights from other GCs on the Council. We can share our ‘war stories‘ in an environment of confidence and trust.
Geraldine Stone
SVP, Chief Counsel APC EMEA Regions, Visa Worldwide Pte Limited
Asia Chief Legal Officers' Council
Council discussions are held in an environment with transparency, trust, and respect under Chatham House rules where diverse members across industries and regions/ markets share their wealth of experiences. The Program Director steered the topics to be future-focused but pragmatic in today’s context. The talent, business, and economic insights are widely applicable to business and HR Leaders.
Aerena Leong
Regional Talent Management and Development Head, APAC, Bridgestone
The true value of The Conference Board is the diversity of views and experience from practitioners across different industries and geographies that members can tap on. As the agenda at Council meetings are members-led, this makes the exchange of shared challenges very relevant and meaningful. I have enjoyed the open sharing and exchange of experiences among the members.
Jacinta Low
Senior Vice President, OCBC Bank
Marvellous network to share best practices amongst the Council members. The real-life experience spread across different industries and different countries. Nowhere else can one get such first-hand insight from a group of veterans in the field of M&A.
Eric Chan
Finance Director, Asia Pacific M&A, Dow Chemical Pacific Ltd.
Asia Corporate Development Council
I was looking to recraft the “how to win” strategies for my team. Conversations with members, experts, authors, and entrepreneurs helped me to recast the strategy. The network also helps to build skills. Webcasts led to contacts that we tapped for stepping up creativity for a select group of colleagues in my organisation. Overall it has been an enriching experience.
Krishna Mohan Suri
Chief R&D Officer, Universal Robina Corporation
Asia Innovation Council
The Council has expanded not only my networking possibilities but also my recognition of the value of learning from a variety of diverse organizations. The quality of external guest speakers has proven to be captivating and enlightening. It truly offers an excellent platform for exchanging our collective knowledge within a secure and nurturing space. Overall, participating in communities like this has contributed significantly to my professional growth and development.
Katty Masci
Regional Learning & Talent Performance Consultant, Chevron
Asia Learning, Development & Culture Council
The Council serves as an immeasurably useful source of information, experience, ideas and tools that I can tap into. The quality of input from my peers is high and the responsiveness of the staff of The Conference Board is quick and reliable. This is a tremendous resource I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone in a position similar to mine.
Trevor D'Cruz
Vice President Legal, APAC, Herbalife
Asia Chief Legal Officers' Council
I find great value in Council meetings. Their in-house experts and invited speakers from cross-industrial sectors are very knowledgeable, sharing their insights, research outcomes, and proven practices as well as the emerging trends. We also have opportunities to join other Council meetings to get updates from different geographies. The Council serves as a great platform for learning, sharing, benchmarking, and collaboration.
Lingzhen Dong
Asia Pacific Region Environmental Product Compliance and Sustainability Director, Johnson & Johnson
China Sustainability Leaders Council