Private Company Director’s Directors to Watch 2025 highlights 31 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Becky Pratt
Wheatsfield Co-op, PrairieFire Wealth Planning
Becky Pratt’s deep leadership portfolio in audit and banking includes roles as chief risk officer and executive audit committee member where she led a team that returned her bank to profitability after nearly failing. She is a Qualified Risk Director with extensive board exposure including director, committee member, advisor and bank examiner experience.
Pratt serves on the finance committee of Wheatsfield Co-op, where she has provided guidance as director, finance committee chair and nom/gov committee member, contributing to Wheatsfield’s competitive success and 30% revenue growth. As founder of Mattan Pratt Consulting LLC, Pratt draws on her history of humanizing risk and compliance in highly regulated environments to advise beyond governance, boldly steering organizations toward success through strategic risk management, visionary leadership and organizational design.
Ask questions to promote critical thinking: “An effective board is essential in today’s dynamic and turbulent environment. Two qualities that facilitate board effectiveness are credible challenge and leadership stamina. Credible challenges encourage thoughtful, well-reasoned questioning without intention to disrupt or undermine, but to promote critical thinking and improvement. Leadership stamina draws on initiative and resilience to pursue confident, relevant actions serving the shared mission, even in the face of resistance or concern about disruption caused by these actions. When directors demonstrate these behaviors with clarity, resolve, connection, care and equanimity, boards are not just effective, they create synergies while inspiring these same qualities throughout their organizations.”