Alumni network
Your education gave you the foundation. The network keeps you sharp.
A curated community of owner-managers, executives and board professionals. Five events a year with sharp talks, confidential sparring and relationships you will not find anywhere else.
Copenhagen · Aarhus · DKK 17,500 excl. VAT per year
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A network built on experience
The best never stop developing
The demands on leaders and boards look different today than they did three years ago. Artificial intelligence is shifting business models. Geopolitics is shifting supply chains. New regulation is shifting responsibility. None of it waits for you to find the time.
For more than ten years, Board Institute has trained some of Denmark’s most committed leadership and board professionals. So we took the natural next step: creating a network where that development continues, for people who want to keep growing as leaders, decision-makers and board professionals.
Who you will meet: Owner-managers, executives, board members and board chairs, investors and experienced specialists. More than 300 members across Copenhagen and Aarhus. What they all share: the ambition to get sharper, and the willingness to use each other to get there.
Admission requirements: As a rule, membership requires completion of Board Institute’s board education. In special cases, other experienced owner-managers, executives and board professionals may be admitted following an individual assessment.
You don’t just go home inspired. You go home with something you can use.
Current leadership and board expertise
Every meeting tackles an issue shaping leadership and board work, from AI and cybersecurity to ownership transitions and capital structure. You get the insight from professionals who work with the subject every day.
Confidential sparring
Real dilemmas require a closed room. Here you can put a difficult situation on the table and get qualified challenge from people who have carried the responsibility themselves.
Curated relationships
The seating plan is never random. Groups and conversations are composed by experience, industry and mutual value, so you sit across from people who are relevant to you.
Practical application
Cases, discussions and tools are chosen so they can be applied directly in your company or boardroom. Knowledge should not merely be understood. It should translate into action.
A lasting professional community
Membership gives you access to members across cohorts, industries and cities, and to the annual New Year Reception, where Copenhagen and Aarhus come together.
It all serves the same purpose: helping you make better decisions and know the people who can help you carry them out.
Meaningful connections, valuable insights
From the first handshake to the final takeaway
Forget random small talk and loose agenda items. The evening is one carefully designed sequence: a talk that challenges you, a dinner with a thoughtfully arranged seating plan, and case work that turns the insights into decisions you can act on the very next day.
17.30
Arrival and curated conversations
The conversations start at the door. We have already thought about who you should meet.
18.00
Expert talk
A distinguished speaker opens the evening’s theme and invites debate, not applause.
18.45
Case work and sparring
The evening’s theme is worked through in small groups, based on real dilemmas, not fabricated examples.
19.30
Dinner
Two-course dinner from the house kitchen. The seating plan is composed by relevance, experience and mutual value.
21.45
Shared reflection
You go home with concrete action points, not just good intentions.
22.00
Thank you and goodnight
Indicative programme, subject to change from evening to evening.
How the groups are composed
Seating and groups are curated before every meeting based on experience, industry and your own preferences. Diversity is a deliberate choice: an owner-manager, a CFO and a chair do not see the same dilemma the same way, and that is precisely the point.
Confidentiality
The conversations take place in a closed room. What is shared at the table stays at the table. That is the precondition for members daring to put their real dilemmas forward, and it is what separates this network from a conference.
Your contribution
The network works because members contribute with experience, dilemmas and honest challenge. You get the most out of it when you put something on the table yourself.
Speakers on Stage
Speakers with experience from the real world
Examples of speakers and professional perspectives from Board Institute’s events. The current programme is published on an ongoing basis here on the network page.
Rikke Østergaard
Lars Tvede
Bjarne Riis
Morten Wagner
Margrethe Dal Lehrmann
Imran Rashid
Practical information
From the first handshake to the final takeaway
Forget random small talk and loosely structured agendas. The evening is a carefully designed experience: a thought-provoking talk, a dinner with thoughtfully arranged seating, and case-based discussions that turn insights into decisions you can act on the very next day.
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Joint Summer Event
28/01/2027
Joint New Year Reception · Copenhagen
03/03/2027
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04/03/2027
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19/05/2027
Aarhus · Network meeting
20/05/2027
Copenhagen · Network meeting
24/11/2027
Aarhus · Network meeting
25/11/2027
Copenhagen · Network meeting
Membership & benefits
One fee. A full year of sharpness.
Five events a year where you step out of the day-to-day and meet people who want the same as you: to make sharper decisions and build stronger relationships, in business, in the boardroom and everywhere in between.
Annual Membership
DKK 17,500
Excl. VAT
Membership per year: DKK 17,500 excl. VAT. Membership is personal and valid for 12 months from the date of enrolment. With combined enrolment in the board education and one year of membership, the total price is DKK 50,000 excl. VAT.
What your membership includes
Three curated evenings per city, with expert talk, two-course dinner and case work in one seamless sequence.
Copenhagen and Aarhus gather for one shared evening that opens the season, with a distinguished speaker on stage.
Copenhagen and Aarhus meet for a shared summer evening of professional perspectives, dinner and relationships across the two network groups.
You are seated by relevance, experience and mutual value, every time. No random neighbours at the table.
More than 300 members across cohorts, industries and cities, and the opportunity to engage with teachers and speakers.
Documentation of 24 lessons of continuing education available after two years of membership.
Members can purchase a professional Directors & Officers liability insurance solution through Söderberg & Partners. Purchased separately, not included in the membership fee.
Professional development in practice
Insights and perspectives from professionals who have completed Board Institute’s board education programme
What participants say
I have plenty of board experience, but I lacked a theoretical framework. Board Institute delivers all of that in just three days.
Practical information
Frequently Asked Questions
Here you will find answers to the questions we are most frequently asked before enrolling on a programme at Board Institute.
Three network meetings in your city, the joint New Year Reception in Copenhagen and the joint Summer Event in August.
Membership is personal and valid for 12 months from the date of enrolment.
After two years of membership, documentation of 24 lessons of continuing education can be issued.
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