Board Paper Bootcamp: Executive Communication for Senior Leaders

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Davina Stanley

McKinsey-trained | C-suite comms expert

Learn to craft executive communication that gets better, faster decisions.

Is this familiar?

>> Writing C-Suite presentations feels like a chore that burdens your nights and weekends.

You are sitting down to review the fourth round of edits on your latest Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or Board presentation.

And you urgently need leadership support for the project to proceed.

But your stakeholders' continuous focus on minutiae is muddying the message you've worked toward.

What's going on?

Endless rounds of minor edits are blocking a project that will make a real difference to your KPI's.

Why?

Most likely you have provided a lot of information but not enough insight.

Your nights and weekends spent drafting have delivered a polished document that doesn't address the real issue.

>> What if you consistently got better, faster decisions from presentations written within regular working hours?

Board Paper Bootcamp is an executive communication course that teaches you how to think more strategically about your messaging so you get to the heart of the matter quickly in a way that AI cannot.

You too can get your recommendations approved quickly, the first time, every time.

What you’ll learn

Learn to crystallize the messaging for business communication, papers and presentations with minimal rework.

Learn how my Elevate framework helps you get to the heart of what your presentation must achieve.
See how it works for business cases, recommendations, updates, and all other formal stakeholder communication with your top decision-makers.

Practice using my one-page message map to structure your thinking to drive both clarity and insight.
Use AI to convert this messaging into a well-structured presentation

Leverage story patterns, templates and guides to lift the value you deliver in each and every paper.
Spark off our extensive library of real-life examples too.

Experience working step-by-step through a structured thinking process that you can repeat independently.
Use AI to convert your crystal clear messaging into a well-structured executive presentation
Receive email feedback from me on your own C-suite or leadership communication piece.

Learn directly from Davina

Davina Stanley

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Founder | coaches at F100 & ASX10 companies + tech PMs | ex-McKinsey

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Who this course is for

Leaders, PMs, and experts from any area who want to set up better conversations that lead to better, faster decisions from their leaders.
Finance leaders wanting strategies to make it faster and easier to review business cases drafted by divisional teams.
Company secretaries, chiefs of staff and communication experts wanting to help their teams deliver crisper and more valuable insights.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Davina Stanley in a real-time, interactive format.

1-1 feedback during the course

Get confidential feedback from Davina as you implement ideas from the course.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Resources vault, including ...

PowerPoint Planner to help you think through your messaging, Board paper handbook with 24 cases and PowerPoint Toolkit with 7 examples.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

5 live sessions • 26 lessons

Week 1

Apr 1—Apr 4

Apr

Board Paper Bootcamp Kick Off

Thu 4/19:00 PM—9:30 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Apr 5—Apr 11

B1 PRE-WORK - 90 MINS - ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY

14 items

Free resource

How to Minimise Rework for Your Next Presentation

The root cause of rework

The biggest problem has nothing to do with the quality of your slides.

How to quickly 'nail' your messaging

Clarifying your messaging inside your deck (or doc) feels fast, but it is actually slow and leads to excessive rework.

A proven way to reframe the way you work

I share 5 steps that will help you clarify and convey complex messaging.

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

These two-hour workshops are highly interactive. They mix group work, individual work, and breakouts as you work on live examples.

Thu, Apr 1
9:00 PM—9:30 PM (UTC)
Tue, Apr 13
10:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)
Thu, Apr 15
10:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

Pre-Work Modules

1 hr / week

You can chip away at the pre-work as soon as you register. This provides a foundation for practical application during the workshops. Please allow ~3 hours to complete in small chunks.

Practical application

1 hr / week

I encourage you to practice the techniques I introduce on your own communication between sessions. Even if you don't have a major presentation to prepare at that time, hopefully you will be able to practice on simpler material.