Rich Fields leads Russell Reynolds’s Board Effectiveness Practice and is a member of the firm's Board and CEO Advisory Partners and Family Enterprise Advisory practices. He works with companies to conduct board and director assessments, enhance oversight of CEO succession planning, benchmark boards against both peers and evolving investor standards, avoid or mitigate activist vulnerabilities, and develop more productive relationships with their largest and most influential shareholders.Before joining the firm, Fields was a partner at King & Spalding, advising companies on complex, high-stakes governance issues. He previously led governance programs for lead directors and committee chairs at Tapestry Networks.Fields has contributed to every edition of The Handbook of Board Governance, including the chapter "Evaluations that Enhance Board Effectiveness." He serves on the Board of the Society for Corporate Governance and is the past president of the board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County.