A Cecile Watson works to serve good governance by helping to build better boards and build boards better.
boardVOX is a brand of ShredWIZ Ltd, an information security and governance company that supports governments, companies and people in the Caribbean to build effective boards, keep their information safe and protect their privacy.
Founder & ceo A Cecile Watson earned the Certified Financial Education Instruction (CFEI) in 2015, Certified in Data Protection (CDP) credentials in 2019 and Certified Sustainability (ESG) Practitioner in 2023. She is also a seasoned governance professional trained by the Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance.
Cecile is a former senior regional banker, an experienced director and c-suite leader in the private and public sector. This first class honours engineering degree graduate is also a recipient of the Canadian Commonwealth
Scholarship and the University of Western Ontario Scholarship Award for Excellence.
Providing Effective Support that empowers Boards to be at their best is how Cecile helps to improve people’s lives and livelihoods. She works through ShredWIZ, a boutique governance and strategy consultancy which she founded in 2017, to help leaders unlock their potential to build better business and build business better. This vehicle provides Cecile with the platform to help boards and Csuite leaders craft effective programs to optimize business results, increasing economic power for shareholders, and creating sustainable development that benefits stakeholders.
At heart a problem solver, Cecile is adept at engineering solutions to treat with business performance challenges and opportunities. That journey took her to the Csuite and the boardroom. There she discerned the will of skilled and knowledgeable directors to do good. However their way is characteristically impeded by deficiency and gaps in governance capabilities.
Now Cecile is pulling it all together with BoardVOX where she works with similarly passionate governance professionals to disrupt boardroom inertia.
In early March, she launched her signature offer, The Board Accelerator,
that helps boards to quickly improve their practice of good governance. The program is delivered as 3 bootcamps (Foundations of Good Governance, Focus On Board Remit, and Future-Proofing for Board Effectiveness) which
collectively arm directors, c-suite leaders and corporate secretaries to be at their best in the boardroom.