May 31, 1996

Profile: Stephanie Joseph

By Staff Writers

With the governance spotlight increasingly shining on boards, Stephanie Joseph is offering to teach directors how to be directors - and save them some money along the way

The shouting about overpaid and underperforming directors has raised some more fundamental questions about what qualifies someone to be a board director of a public company. In the past, anyone who held a directorship of one company was deemed almost by definition to be a suitable candidate for a similar role at another company. There was never any talk about board diversity, bloated boards or problems of board directors having conflicts of interest. But that's all changed, as this year's