BoardPro Podcasts

The unsung powerhouse of governance Behind every high-performing board is a Company Secretary who ensures seamless governance, regulatory compliance, and strategic alignment. As the trusted adviser to directors, the Company Secretary holds a unique position—balancing corporate authority, ethical integrity, and practical judgement to navigate complex governance landscapes. Whether in a listed compa...

Join us as we explore how directors can support work to be the means for people to realise their potential and do great things. Success with your organisational goals is entirely dependent on the performance of your people. Learn how boards can enable improved management practices and set expectations around work design and organisational culture. This can support increased wellbeing, innovation a...

Discover how AI enhances boards to gain innovative strategic insights and productivity tools to meet governance challenges and improve decision making and transformative opportunities. AI enables boards to concentrate on value-added activities by automating tasks and enhancing decision-making. Join us to learn how to implement practical use cases of AI, such as custom AI tools and personas that wi...

Story is the thread. It connects everything. Shared knowledge drives the success of our species. The capacity to build and believe in abstract thought is our defining characteristic: We communicate in story. We view the world through default narratives. We need to believe. Strong, consistent stories bind our organisations. Our purpose or just cause, well told, will bring us closer to and connects...

Effective crisis management starts long before a crisis hits. Boards play a critical role in this. With a fiduciary duty and responsibility to protect the interests of shareholders, effective crisis response is a critical part of the board’s mandate to oversee good governance and management of risk. It is one part of the board’s normal assessment of the ongoing viability and sustainability of its...

Boards have been tasked with pivoting and re-orienting to a new future in a state of great uncertainty. While the "right" path forward through these challenges will look different to each business, the Board processes, practices and skills that will identify winning strategies will be common.  This panel will present specific experiences and ideas that can help your board develop a more...

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to help you build the board you’ve always wanted—one that drives success and elevates your organisation’s impact. This webinar has been crafted to guide you through the essential elements of creating, recruiting, and managing a professional advisory board that will give your organisation a true competitive advantage. In this webinar, you’ll gain the knowl...

Join us for an insightful webinar designed to help you build the board you’ve always wanted—one that drives success and elevates your organisation’s impact. This webinar has been crafted to guide you through the essential elements of creating, recruiting, and managing a professional advisory board that will give your organisation a true competitive advantage. In this webinar, you’ll gain the knowl...

This webinar will illuminate the intricate landscape of conflicts of interest within the boardroom. Navigating conflicts effectively is not just a skill; it's a necessity for maintaining integrity, fostering trust, and ensuring sustainable organizational success. Through this webinar, our aim is to provide you with actionable takeaways that can be immediately applied in your boardroom respons...

Conflict doesn’t have to divide your board—it can be the spark that drives innovation. Discover practical strategies, real-world case studies and proven models for transforming disagreement into creative solutions. In this webinar, we’ll explore how the friction of conflict can fuel groundbreaking ideas and better board decisions. Using a model of participatory decision-making, we’ll unpack the di...

Cultivating an effective boardroom culture is essential for building trust, creating a psychologically safe environment, and enabling the board to deliver excellence for the organisation. Creating an effective boardroom culture is no longer a ‘nice to do’, but a requirement for meeting work health and safety obligations and duty of care. Board culture challenges come in many forms, and the impact...

Unlock the potential of AI in governance with this insightful webinar, designed to help directors and executives integrate AI into their decision-making processes. Key points: Learn how to leverage AI as a governance co-pilot to tackle boardroom challenges and improve strategic decisions. Move beyond AI's theoretical potential to actionable steps that can be applied in real-world governance s...

Is your Board prepared for the next CEO appraisal? Join us in a dynamic webinar offering invaluable insights on conducting effective CEO reviews, setting KPIs, and driving performance. This session will equip you with the tools to conduct a powerful and constructive CEO review. Learn to tackle tough questions, establish meaningful KPIs, align them with strategic priorities, and link performance to...

Learn how to run a lower stress process to produce an engaging annual operating plan. An annual operating plan is a prized document. It's the blueprint for building your organisation in any given year. You wouldn’t build a house without architectural drawings. Unfortunately, many small to medium businesses or non-profit CEO’s run their organisation's with only a sketch of what they are b...

Join us for our enlightening webinar, 'How to think differently about whole of business governance’, where Dr Dean Blomson and our expert panel will be guiding us through an exploration of business governance design. This webinar is designed to explore governance beyond the confines of the boardroom, into and across the business entity (whether for-profit or not-for-profit; whether listed or...

Learn the fine art of CEO reporting to the board in four simple steps in 45 minutes from industry and governance experts. Once targets have been clearly defined, the CEO should be able to produce a report that clearly and easily gives the board the information they need. As a rule, the first two pages should be enough for board members to gather a broad understanding of the position of the busines...

The art of collaborative leadership can enhance relationships and transform boardroom decision-making. This webinar will dive into the key components of collaboration and offer practical tips for implementation. Leadership styles profoundly impact the effectiveness of boards and leadership teams. While autocratic leadership may deliver quick results, it’s the more challenging art of collaborative...

Discover how to use strategy to shape boardroom conversations effectively. Explore the board's role in creating the future for stakeholders, understanding the present and future landscapes, and determining necessary actions. Learn the three keys to strategies: Vision/Purpose, Strategic Plan, and Operational Plan—and how to align board agendas, reports, and discussions to drive strategic outco...

UK VERSION WITH JOHN COURTNEY OF BOARDROOM ADVISORS Learn how to develop and structure a strategic board agenda that keeps the board focused on the important matters during the meeting. Focus only on those strategic items that matter Do your meetings tend to get unfocussed or off-track, or are they a sound use of time, focusing on strategic items that move your organisation forward? Provide your d...

Learn how to develop and structure a strategic board agenda that keeps the board focused on the important matters during the meeting. Focus only on those strategic items that matter Do your meetings tend to get unfocussed or off-track, or are they a sound use of time, focusing on strategic items that move your organisation forward? Provide your directors with clarity on what they should do with ea...

Are you struggling to balance the competing interests and priorities of board members, employees, investors and others? In this webinar, you will learn practical tips on how to negotiate stakeholder alignment and build commitment to the organisation’s success. You will also learn practical tips and actionable strategies for negotiating stakeholder alignment and building commitment to the organizat...

How to establish an Adaptive Strategy and bring the board and organisation on the journey.  As the rate of change increases and the world becomes more complex and uncertain, traditional strategy methods become less effective. Over the last few years new methods of creating and activating strategy have been developed. Adaptive strategy provides a new paradigm in strategic thinking. Using our experi...

Explore using skill matrixes to ensure effective director succession planning and onboarding. Understand how to identify the right competencies, balance the board’s collective expertise, and plan for future needs. In today’s business world, boards must be agile, diverse, and prepared for future challenges. A skill matrix is a powerful tool that helps boards evaluate their current capabilities, ide...

This webinar is meticulously designed to illuminate what 'fit-for-purpose' governance really means in today's dynamic business environment.  Dr Dean Blomson, supported by the panel, of Steven Bowman and Lisa Cook, will delve into why it is crucial for any organisation to develop a bespoke governance model that fits its unique needs, not generic, ‘one-size-fits-all’ governance.  Dean...