Sound-Up Governance

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Intro Transcript: Hi, this is Matt Fullbrook with a bit of a first for this platform. Today, I’m sharing with you a full episode of SOMEONE ELSE’S podcast. It’s called Policy Crimes, and it’s hosted by a dude called Tristan Markle. The first season of Policy Crimes explores the question: what does homelessness cost? Through interviews with some super interesting experts and academics, Tristan disc...

A new long-form scripted podcast episode where Matt Fullbrook discusses the shortcomings of board evaluations and shares some new ideas to improve on the status quo. The argument builds on practical experience, academic research, and an analogy to modern music production. Full transcript available at https://groundupgovernance.substack.com/p/bonus-board-evaluations-dont-workbut Get full access to...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook and this is the fourth and final episode in this short yet super cool series about the relationship between corporate governance and human-centered design. Once again, the voices you'll hear belong to me. Michael Hartmann, who's the principal of the directors college at McMaster University, Karel Vredenburg, w...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This is the third episode in a short series of highlights from a webinar that I co-hosted last year with my great friend Michael Hartmann. He's the Principal of the Directors College at McMaster University. He invited his friends, Karel Vredenburg, who was Global VP of UX Research at IBM, and Tara Safaie, who's the Executive director o...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook and this is the second episode in a short series of highlights from a webinar that I co hosted a few months ago with my friend Michael Hartmann. He's the Principal of the Directors College at McMaster University, and he invited his friends Karel Vredenburg, who up until recently was the Global VP of UX Researc...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and today we have the first in a short series of episodes that come from a webinar that I co hosted a few months back with my old friend Michael Hartmann, who's the Principal of the Directors College at McMaster University. He invited a couple of his friends to join us. Karel Vredenburg, who was the global VP...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover : 00:00 Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and this is the tenth and final episode in my epic conversation with my brilliant governance friend, Andrew Escobar. Today's episode is a bit longer than the others in this series because were working through some thinking on a really interesting topic. Between the board chair, the CEO, and the rest o...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover : 00:00 Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook and today we have the ninth installment of my conversation with Andrew Escobar, a corporate director, open finance expert and keen AI tinkerer. Andrew was one of the first people I knew who built their own LLM model. So I was interested to ask him AI related stuff might be on his mind as a director. Fo...

Matt Voiceover 00:09 Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and today's the eighth episode from my epic conversation with my friend and trusted governance ally, Andrew Escobar. If you've been listening to this whole season so far, can we just take a second and marvel at how much cool stuff Andrew has to say? And there are still at least three more episodes to go. Today he...

TRANSCRIPT MATT VOICEOVER Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook and I'm back for another episode with governance rogue and open finance expert, Andrew Escobar. We left off the previous episode talking about the potential for informality to enhance decision making in boardroom. Today we build on that and suggest one very specific, highly doable thing that you and your board...

TRANSCRIPT: MATT VOICEOVER Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and when I left off last time with Andrew Escobar, governance nerd and reliable partner in exploring vaguely countercultural topics, we had talked through an exercise that I conduct with boards and executives on considering the benefits and harms of our decisions on a variety of stakeholders. Andrew had expr...

TRANSCRIPT MATT VOICEOVER Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook and this episode continues my conversation with my great friend, Andrew Escobar, who's a governance nerd, corporate director, open finance expert, and big thinker based, like me, in Toronto. I shared with Andrew an exercise that I've conducted with boards, executives and other curious people in the governance...

TRANSCRIPT MATT VOICEOVER Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook. Once again, our guest is my great friend Andrew Escobar, corporate director, open finance advocate, and big thinker. In today's episode, we discuss what it takes for a director to feel empowered to be great and whether it might be a good thing for boards to be friends. Let's dive in. MATT What might it look l...

TRANSCRIPT: MATT VOICEOVER Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This is the third episode of our new revamped format. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and once again our featured guest is governance nerd, open finance specialist, funky mustache sporting genius, Andrew Escobar. You might notice that the illustration of Andrew in the episode thumbnail does not include include said mustache. Sorry about th...

TRANSCRIPT MATT VOICEOVER Hi, my name is Matt Fullbrook and this is Sound-Up Governance. The second episode in a brand new format where we zero in for few minutes one expert's perspective on a very specific corporate governance question or topic. Once again, my guest is Andrew Escobar, an experienced corporate director, open banking expert and super thoughtful big thinker on board stuff in general...

TRANSCRIPT: MATT VOICEOVER Hi everyone, this is Matt Fullbrook. Welcome to a whole new chapter of the Sound-Up Governance podcast where I'll talking to big thinkers in corporate governance and learning from them about the "how" of being a great corporate director or executive. Think of it as an interview show, but broken into really focused chunks. Each episode will zoom in one person's perspectiv...

TRANSCRIPT: Welcome back to…One Minute Governance? Sound-Up Governance? Kinda depends where you’re listening. I’m posting this everywhere. My name is Matt Fullbrook and this is the first medium- to long-form scripted podcast episode I’ve ever done. It’ll be a bit of a journey. There was just a story that I wanted to tell, and I figured that I’d use these platforms to get it out there. So, well, en...

Ground-Up Governance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. I think it's fair to say that the best part of my profession, if you can call it that, is the privileged access I have to a huge variety of super smart, super interesting and super influential...

Ground-Up Governance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome to a special mini episode of Sound-Up Governance. I'm in the middle of a travel whirlwind and trying to make sure I have cool stuff to share with you. So here's a chunk of my conversation with Eric Wetlaufer that didn't fi...

Ground-Up Governance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. I'm grateful to you as someone who listens to this admittedly esoteric show for letting me head out on my journey without much complaint. I've chosen to interpret that as enthusiastic approval...

Ground-Up Governance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Matt refers to an old paper he wrote in 2013 - check it out here The Larcker/Tayan ECGI paper is here TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. Today we have another episode that's just me. But wait! Before you shut off your computer o...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My guest today is the next and last in a little miniseries featuring people in the startup and tech environments. Also, she's up to some amazingly cool stuff. Rose Genele is the CEO of The Opening Door, a revenue operations consultancy. But that's not how we met. A mutual friend introduced us because Rose was starting something called...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Voiceover Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. I've been trying to get today's guest on the show for months and we finally found the time to get together what a treat to chat with Soodeh Farokhi, Chief Product Officer for Nakisa, which is a software company in Montreal. Soodeh has been a founder in the VC world, a board member an advocate for equity, diversity and inclusion. She's...