Director Podcast

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast Emma Rowland, Policy Advisor on Trade, speaks to IoD members Michael Lorimer, CEO of DCS Group, and Christopher Beckford, Commercial Creative of Creativo Oculus, about the challenges of exporting in a post Brexit world.

In this episode of the Business Book Club, the IoD’s Dr Roger Barker discusses the book ‘Boards’ with its author, Patrick Dunne, and senior media executive coach and experienced board director Monica Chadha. You can order a copy of ‘Boards’ by Patrick Dunne here: https://www.governance.co.uk/product/boards/?v=79cba1185463

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast Alex Hall-Chen, Principal Policy Advisor for Skills at the IoD, is joined by Hannah Stolton, CEO of Governors for Schools, and Kaye Bettey, Non Executive Director at the Thinking Schools Academy Trust, to discuss developments in school governance in recent years and the case for stronger business-education collaboration on governance.

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast Dr Roger Barker, Alex Hall-Chen and Hugo Legh discuss the Outlook for Business in 2023. Members can view our 'Outlook for Business in 2023' paper here: The Outlook for Business in 2023 | Blogs | IoD

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy and Governance at the IoD, and Chris Hodge, Senior Advisor at the IoD Centre for Corporate Governance discuss the findings of the Governance and Innovation report.

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast Emma Rowland, Trade Policy Advisor at the IoD, discusses our new policy paper 'Restoring Confidence in Cross-Border Trade'. You can read the full policy paper here: https://www.iod.com/app/uploads/2022/10/IoD-Trade-Report-1-36c2fdc2a7da4f993dfe3eebf4455a0a.pdf

In the first episode of the IoD Business Book Club Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy at the IoD, Alex Hall-Chen, Senior Policy Advisor and Patrick MacDonald, Chair of the IoD review three books from the Financial Times' Business Book of the Year 2022 Shortlist. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby...

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast, Julian Richer, Founder and Managing Director of Richer Sounds, discusses what he's learned from decades in business, his motivation for setting up the Good Business Charter and why IoD members should consider it.

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast, Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy at the IoD, and Lord Shinkwin discuss the findings of the Shinkwin Commission. 

In this episode of the Shinkwin Commission podcast, Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy and Governance at the IoD, discusses the role of boards in ED&I with Julie Ashworth, Chair of IoD Edinburgh and Women on Boards Presenter and Advisor.

In this episode of the podcast Chris Hodge, Senior Advisor at the IoD Centre for Corporate Governance, discusses the link between governance and innovation from a large company view with Megan Pantelides, Executive Director Researcher at Board Intelligence. 

In this episode of the podcast Chris Hodge, Senior Advisor at the IoD Centre for Corporate Governance, discusses the link between governance and innovation from an academic's perspective with Dr Tom Gosling, Executive Fellow at London Business School and Executive Fellow at European Corporate Governance Institute.

In this episode of the podcast Chris Hodge, Senior Advisor at the IoD Centre for Corporate Governance, discusses the link between governance and innovation from an investors perspective with George Dallas, Policy Director at the International Corporate Governance Network.

In this episode of the Shinkwin Commission podcast, Alex Hall-Chen, Senior Policy Advisor on Inclusion and Diversity at the IoD, discusses the importance of creating equitable and inclusive workplaces for women with Esther Teeken, COO and Board member at the IoD, and Dr Zara Nanu MBE, CEO of GapSquare.

In this Directors' Briefing podcast, Dr Roger Barker (IoD Policy Director) and Chris Hodge (IoD Governance Advisor) discuss latest developments in corporate governance reform with Alex Hall-Chen (IoD Senior Policy Advisor).

In this episode of the Shinkwin Commission podcast, Alex Hall-Chen, Senior Policy Advisor on Inclusion and Diversity at the IoD, discusses the importance of creating LGBTQ+ inclusive workplaces with Paul Donovan, Chief Economist at UBS and Professor Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of The Economic Case for LGBT Equality: Why Fair and Equal T...

In this episode of the Directors’ Briefing podcast Dr Roger Barker, Director of Policy and Governance at the IoD, and Chris Hodge, Senior Advisor at the IoD Centre for Corporate Governance discuss the Centre’s new inquiry into governance and innovation. The inquiry will explore the extent to which companies’ governance arrangements, and the governance framework within which they operate, encourage...

In this episode of the Shinkwin Commission podcast Hugo Legh, Media and Comms Lead at the IoD interviews Stephanie Boyce, President of the Law Society and Rashmi Dubé, National Spokesperson for IoD Policy and Governance Ambassadors and Partner at GunnerCooke about the importance of ethnic diversity in the workplace. 

In our latest Directors’ Briefing podcast, the IoD’s Director of Policy and Governance Dr Roger Barker speaks to Seamus Gillen about his new book, Building Better Boards: How to lead and succeed in a changing world . After a career working as a Chartered Secretary, a company secretary and company director, and as Policy Director of ICSA, the Chartered Governance Institute, Seamus Gillen has spent...

Lord Shinkwin interviews Steve Ingham, CEO PageGroup, on the importance of diversity in the workplace. 

In this episode of the Directors' Briefing podcast, Hugo Legh, Kitty Ussher and Alex Hall-Chen discuss 'The Green Incentive: how to put net zero at the heart of business planning'. This policy paper sets out four specific medium-term recommendations which would incentivise businesses, and particularly smaller businesses, to play their part in decarbonising the economy.

The IoD’s Director of Policy, Dr Roger Barker, was joined by the following expert panel: Kitty Ussher, Chief Economist, Institute of Directors Chris Forrest, Head of SME UK, Barclays Ian Stewart, Chief Economist, Deloitte

In this Directors' Briefing podcast, we discuss the British Chambers of Commerce campaign that we are supporting, calling on the Government to stop using the outdated word ‘chairman’.

In this episode, we discuss the forthcoming rise to National Insurance contributions and the IoD's campaign against it, #ScrapTheJobsTax. You can sign the online #ScrapTheJobsTax petition here: https://chng.it/zNg8fXgdpY 

In this episode, we discuss ESG priorities for companies in 2022, following the publication of an IoD Policy Paper on the issue. In addition to the report's author, Dr Roger Barker (IoD Director of Policy and Corporate Governance), we are joined by Gillian Karran-Cumberlege (Co-founder of Fidelio Partners and Board Member of Chapter Zero, the Directors’ Climate Forum), Yanos Michopoulos (IoD corpo...