A shadow board is a group of nonexecutive employees who work with senior executives on strategic initiatives. It is designed to leverage insights from younger generations and to diversify the perspectives that executives are exposed to. These boards can be used to test and pilot novel initiatives that are important to younger employees, bridge generational gaps between workers, and create respect and understanding across the organizational hierarchy.| Harvard Business Review
Shadow boards can help companies with two pressing issues: Millennial workers’ dis-engagement and executive teams’ inability to keep up with changing market conditions. They can help with business model reinvention, cultural transformation, and process redesign. Best practices include not leaving these programs up to HR and not limiting them to previously identified “high potentials.”| Harvard Business Review