{"id":5631,"date":"2026-02-11T09:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:08:22","slug":"board-of-directors-guidelines-for-building-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustacrossamerica.com\/blog\/?p=5631","title":{"rendered":"Board of Directors: Guidelines for Building Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Are you a board member or serve in an advisory capacity to boards?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If board members both individually and collectively are talking about making trust a strategic imperative but not modeling it themselves, how could they expect the organization to be viewed as trustworthy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titles alone do not confer trust. Trust is an intentional strategic imperative that must be practiced and reinforced daily. Using our Tap Into Trust Principles<\/a> having now been accessed over 200,000 times, the following are our guidelines for Boards of Directors. At a minimum they should be included in every board packet at every board meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Barbara Brooks Kimmel <\/em><\/a>is an author, speaker, product developer and global subject matter expert on trust and trustworthiness. Founder of Trust Across America-Trust Around the World she is author of the award-winning <\/em>Trust Inc., Strategies for Building Your Company\u2019s Most Valuable Asset<\/em><\/a>, Trust Inc., 52 Weeks of Activities and Inspirations for Building Workplace Trust and Trust Inc., a Guide for Boards & C-Suites. She majored in International Affairs (Lafayette College), and has an MBA (Baruch- City University of NY). Her expertise on trust has been cited in Harvard Business Review, Investor\u2019s Business Daily, Thomson Reuters, BBC Radio, The Conference Board, The Financial Times, Global Finance Magazine, Bank Director and Forbes, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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