How to Gain a Competitive Edge With a Smarter Approach to Board Diversity

Adarsh Mantravadi is general counsel and director of government strategy at OnBoard, an Indianapolis-based provider of board management software solutions serving more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. In this article, he discusses a roadmap for enhancing board diversity that is based on differences in perspectives and life experiences, as opposed to skin color, gender, culture, or nationality, which often tend to guide such strategies.