Boardroom Confidential

“If you're an outlier, it's not a very comfortable place to be.” This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Julie Baddeley, Chair of the Chapter Zero Alliance. Julie has sat on boards in executive and non-executive roles for 25 years across consumer, retail, financial services, and professional services.  She shares the boardroom stories that have shaped...

"Everyone talks about AI today. But I'm not really sure how many people still understand it." This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Devyani Vaishampayan, an independent non-executive director at Forvis Mazars, and RemCo Chair at a number of organisations, including NHS Supply Chain. Devyani is also an expert in AI, and cuts through the noise to ask the qu...

"The most powerful tool I have at my disposal as chair of the risk committee is other people in the room." This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Terri Duhon, non-executive director and risk chair at Rathbones and the money transfer company Wise.  Terri shares the boardroom stories and insights that have shaped her career, including confidently walking int...

"Companies don't go bust because they don't make profit. They go bust because they run out of cash." This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Simon Laffin, an experienced chairman, executive and non-executive director with 35 years of board experience.  Simon has served as chairman of the airline Flybe Group, healthcare real estate company Assura and gardeni...

"Strategy used to be a plan. There are very few organisations that are stable enough now to have that five-year plan in a meaningful way." This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Didier Cossin, Chaired Professor of Governance and Finance at IMD Business School and Founder Director of the IMD Global Board Center.  Didier shares the boardroom stories and insi...

Boardroom Confidential, a podcast by Sherpany, is back for a second season with more business leaders revealing what really goes on behind the boardroom doors when the pressure’s on and the stakes are high. Communication specialist, former newspaper editor and board member Emily Sheffield takes senior business figures through three big agenda items: the boardroom pressure that tests every leader,...

“A healthy boardroom is one where there is a vibrant sharing of ideas, where very few things are off the table.” This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Brian O’Kelley, a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold multiple companies throughout his career. Most notably, he co-founded AppNexus, a software platform that optimised programmatic online advertising, and was later sold...

“The amount of unknowns that I had on the table, I joked with my CEO at the time that we needed a bigger table.” This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Mark Williams, Chief Revenue Officer at Datasite Group, a company providing secure software solutions for managing the full spectrum of financial transactions. Mark has years of experience as a senior sales leader and, unlike ou...

This week's guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Margaret Heffernan, author, entrepreneur, and professor at the University of Bath's School of Management. She shares with us the boardroom stories that have shaped her career, including running software companies during the dot-com boom, managing conflict at the top, and how a star of the screen showed great bravery to jolt a board into ac...

“Match the board and the exec team with the level that you are at, it’s really important to have that chemistry and understand what you need from the board.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Roei Samuel, CEO and founder, as well as non-executive director and advisor to multiple boards. Roei says one of the biggest lessons he’s learned in the boardroom is that chemistry is...

“I've learned the discipline of preparation. I put a lot of prep into any big meeting.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Daphne Mavroudi-Chocholi, Managing Director of RNIB Enterprises, the for-profit arm of the British charity that serves people with visual impairments. She’s also sat on a number of boards at startups as an observer. Her previous roles include managing d...

“You can't bring your view from 10 years ago and think that that's still the right way of working.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Nigel Toon, CEO of the British semiconductor company, Graphcore. He’s previously been CEO at two successful venture capital-backed proces­sor companies, and co-founded Icera - a 3G cellular modem chip company, sold to US technology giant NVI...

“In moments of crisis, great boards are always available.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Monica Collings OBE, the former CEO who led retail energy companies through the Covid pandemic and the energy crisis brought on by the war in Ukraine. She shares with us the boardroom stories that have shaped her career, including an insolvency, threats from members of the public,...

“ I think the relationship between the CEO and the chairman is essential, always.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Jorge Titinger, former CEO of SGI – one of the leading global companies in high-performance computing – and prior to that, CEO of Verigy. He shares with us the boardroom stories that have shaped his career, including being on the receiving end of a “near-hos...

”We would never have got the Nissan Leaf to market had it not been for the unwavering support of the CEO. He gave us the air cover.” This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast is Andy Palmer, dubbed ‘The Godfather of Electric Vehicles’, he is the former Chief Operating Officer at Nissan and the former CEO of the iconic car maker, Aston Martin.  He shares with us the boardroom stories...

“Any board can get rid of one chief executive, some boards can get rid of two, no board can get rid of three… we had to resign. Which we did.” Our first guest on the Broadroom Confidential podcast is Sir John Tusa, who has been involved in arts management and leadership for more than 30 years. He shares with us the boardroom stories that have shaped his career, including boardroom resignations at...

Introducing Boardroom Confidential, a brand new podcast where journalist and board member Emily Sheffield takes senior business figures through three big agenda items: the boardroom pressure that tests every leader, the lessons learned around the table, and the dynamics that can make or break organisations. Discover the stories leaders usually only share with their peers. Brought to you by Sherpan...