What is the BPI Senior Executive Board?
The Best Practice Institute’s Senior Executive Board (SEB) is a highly selective group of senior executives from leading global organizations. It provides a unique networking and benchmarking experience focused on deep relationship building, strategic networking, and long-term alliances among organizations. Board members are the heads of their organization's most pressing strategic change, learning, and talent management initiatives.
Membership is exclusive; prospective members must be the top talent management and leadership development executives at their corporations and must be recommended, vetted, and approved by the existing group.
Core Activities and Purpose
Senior Executive Members share and pioneer innovative, emerging practices. The group shapes research according to its specific goals and unique needs. Core activities include:
- Best Practice Sharing Sessions: Members collaborate to solve company challenges related to talent management, leadership development, and organizational change.
- Site Visits: Face-to-face meetings are held at member corporate sites, offering firsthand insight into different operational environments.
- Customized Research: Members guide BPI's research, reports, surveys, and case studies to address their specific goals and learning needs.
Comprehensive Membership Benefits
An SEB membership provides extensive resources for both the executive and their entire organization.
Strategic Meetings and Networking
- Face-to-Face Peer Benchmarking: Members attend two multi-day meetings annually, hosted at a member's corporate site and led by BPI expert facilitators.
- Online Case Study Presentations: Bi-monthly online sessions allow members to dialogue with experts and presenters from top corporations about real-world experiences.
- Benchmark-It Sessions: Members can present a case or challenge to receive direct consulting and advice from their executive peers.
- Peer and Group Mentoring: The entire group acts as a coaching resource, and each member chooses a peer mentor to help achieve their goals for the year.
Organizational and Team Development
- Develop Your Talent Cabinet: Membership includes BPI access for 10 members of your talent team (e.g., Heads of Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, CLOs, CHROs), allowing them to participate in sessions.
- Company-Wide Access: Basic BPI memberships are provided for all employees at your organization.
- BPI Social Learning Platform: The member corporation receives 10 user licenses for a dedicated team, providing full access to all live and on-demand BPI learning sessions, social benchmarking tools, and chat features with experts.
Expert Access and Custom Research
- BPI Faculty: Members have continual access to BPI's faculty of more than 350 business experts and thought leaders for consultation and guidance.
- Custom Research Input: SEB members have creative input to direct BPI's research and learning activities to align with their organization's strategic needs.
Internal and External Branding
With permission, a member's case studies and work can be peer-reviewed and presented within the BPI community and its larger network. This provides an opportunity to brand the organization’s HR and talent practices, which can aid in talent acquisition and retention.