Outside In with Jon Lukomnik

Amy Borrus is the Executive Director of the Council of Institutional Investors, or CII, the prominent U.S. trade group that represents asset owners and managers around corporate governance issues. Borrus, a former journalist for Business Week, talks with Jon about the ways ESG and corporate governance have evolved in the 30+ years she’s been following the industry, the enduring issues with dual-cl...

Women's National Basketball Association Commissioner Cathy Engelbert joins Jon to talk about leaving her post as the first female CEO of Deloitte in 2019, to become the first-ever Commissioner of the WNBA. Listen as she talks about the similarities between basketball and business, the challenges to sports bought by the pandemic and America's continued reckoning with racial inequity and gender ineq...

Michael Jantzi is one of the giants of sustainable investing. He is the founder and long-time CEO of Sustainalytics, which was recently sold to Morningstar, and where he now focuses on the big picture as managing director for ESG strategy. Listen as Michael tells Jon how he is broadening the adoption of sustainable investing across multiple asset classes and investor segments and where he sees the...

Donna Lynn Hilton, artistic director of influential musical theater company Goodspeed, joins Jon this week to talk about using theater to reflect a more inclusive, diverse, and even politically fraught U.S., the future of the medium, and how she navigates the tricky art of managing creative people in a collaborative environment.

Lord Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, is the master of Pembroke College at Cambridge University and is a former member of Parliament. He’s also a former UK Minister for Culture, Media and Sport and the former chair of the UK’s Environmental Agency. He joins Jon this week to talk about the importance of failing, the future of the UK post-Brexit, Cambridge’s divestment from fossil fuels, and wh...

Dr. Lewis Teperman serves as the Vice Chair of Surgery and is Director of Solid Organ Transplantation at Northwell Health. His interest in medicine started with a childhood hamster who needed an appendectomy, and, later, he decided to organ transplantation surgery after seeing his college roommate lose his mother who couldn't receive a transplant in time. Here, Dr. Teperman, a pioneer in liver tra...

Rick Funston is CEO of Funston Advisory Services and the author of "Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating The Risk Intelligent Enterprise" and was the National Practice Leader for Deloitte's Governance and Risk Oversight Services. Prior to that, he worked for several major public retirement systems, including the New York City Bureau of Asset Management and the California Public Employee...

Nell Minow has been an influential shareholder adviser and leader in the world of corporate governance for over three decades. She’s co-authored three books on corporate governance with Robert A.G. Monks, most recently the 5th edition of an MBA textbook titled Corporate Governance , published in 2011. She’s also a movie critic and edits the site, TheMovieMom.com . Here, Nell talks with Jon about t...

Author Zach Schonbrun talks to Jon about his book, The Performance Cortex: How Neuroscience is Redefining Athletic Genius , and the powerful connection between the mind and athletic success. Schonbrun, a former New York Times sports reporter , is a senior editor covering business and technology at The Week magazine. Listen as he discusses the unexpected parallels between business and sports and wh...

Howard Sherman is Executive Director of ESG at data giant MSCI, where he is responsible for MSCI’s corporate governance practice. Though ESG has exploded in popularity in recent years, Howard has been involved in corporate governance and sustainability issues for 35 years and his thoughts and opinions have helped determine the direction of ESG. Listen as Jon talks to Howard about the role of data...

Best-selling author Margalit Fox joins Jon today to talk about her new book The Confidence Men , the incredible true-life prison-break tale of two British WWI officers who escaped from a Turkish jail. Even better, the officers pulled one over on their captors using a homemade Ouija board. Margo is a gifted storyteller, having worked on the New York Times ' obituaries section as a senior writer for...

On the debut episode of Jon Lukomnik's new Spark Network podcast Outside In , the noted institutional investor and corporate governance expert talks to Shakespeare scholar Jim Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America , about what the financial community can take away from the Bard about business.

Listen to what lies ahead on Season 1 of Outside In with Jon Lukomnik