7 ways to position yourself to get on a board

Women are woefully underrepresented on corporate boards, and the process to get on one can feel like getting into a secret club. But if it’s an ambition of yours, here’s how to crack the code.

When Lauren Zalaznick left her role as an executive vice president at NBCUniversal in 2013, she started looking for opportunities to bring her three decades of digital and media experience to a new environment: the boardroom. Driven by the desire to gain a landscape view of corporations and work...