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.
Brooke Vuckovic
Kalsec Inc.
Brooke Vuckovic is a Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. At Kellogg, she focuses on a wide variety of leadership topics, including moral complexity in leadership, talent development and leadership succession.
In addition to her teaching, Vuckovic was the academic director for “Leading the Family Enterprise” through Kellogg’s Ward Center for Family Enterprise. She is an executive coach focused on working with CEOs of founder-led, or family-held multigenerational enterprises.
Vuckovic serves as a director and governance chair of Kalsec, a family-held, global natural food and beverage ingredients company, which is also a certified B-Corp. Her board responsibilities have included developing board recruitment and succession processes.
Families will protect and invest in what they love: “The most valuable strategic assets of any family company are patient capital, long-term perspectives and value-based leadership. None of these are possible without the ongoing education, involvement and emotional investment of succeeding generations. A dynamic private board effectively oversees the strategy and leadership of the operating business to ensure that they tightly align with the values, purpose and shared vision of the owners. To achieve this across succeeding generations, the board can ensure that there are decision-making and communication processes in place that protect and guide the family company.”