Sound-Up Governance

Matt (Voiceover) Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This week features the first ever in-person unedited interview segment. I packed up a bunch of gear and set up in my friend's basement to have an unscripted chat about corporate governance, guitars and gigging. The session went back and forth between guitar noodling and truly deep dive governance nerd… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance at...

Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This episode is like every other episode of Sound-Up Governance... Psych!   Hi, this is Matt Fullbrook. Since one of the objectives of Ground-Up Governance is to provide me with a platform to express myself, I've decided to try out a new thing. Hot takes and harsh criticism are entertaining. And it turns out I hav… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance...

TRANSCRIPT Matt Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This episode messed up the sequencing of my production schedule, the narrative flow of the Ground-Up Governance platform, the launch of a new hilarious series where I react to (or troll) governance resources, and also my perception of…well, kinda everything. My guest today is chatGPT, a chatbot made available by openAI, and processed through a t...

TRANSCRIPT Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This week's guest is Judith Athaide who's been one of the most inspiring allies in my governance journey. We first crossed paths in the boardroom of NB Power, the government owned power utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Sure, fundamentally,… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance at groundupgovernance.substack.com/subscribe

Illustration of Sara Harrup by Nate Schmold TRANSCRIPT Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My guest this week is Sara Harrup, CEO of Foodbank Queensland, Chair of The Executive Connection or TEC, and a non-executive director at Health Care Insurance or HCI. I originally reached out to Sara because I was delighted to learn that she's a musician: a si… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance...

Illustration of Robin Cardozo by Nate Schmold TRANSCRIPT Matt  In the last episode of Sound-Up Governance was part one of my amazing conversation with Robin Cardozo, a hugely experienced senior executive and board member in Canada's not for profit world. And this episode is part two. So let's pick it up right where we left off. Robin Cardozo  You and I have … Get full access to Ground-Up Governanc...

Illustration of Robin Cardozo by Nate Schmold Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My guest this week is Robin Cardozo, who's probably the most experienced, connected and remarkable executive and board member I know in the Canadian charitable space. He's been CEO, COO and/or CFO of multiple major organizations, including the SickKids Hospital Founda… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance a...

Today’s episode features perspectives from Wanda Lopuch , Tony Spizzirri , Jamahl Evans , Lisa Oldridge , Nick Chambers , Meron Tecle , Andrew Escobar and Paul Smith TRANSCRIPT Matt  This week's one and only definition on Ground-Up Governance was " corporate governance ." I define corporate governance as the way that decisions get made in a corporation. No mention… Get full access to Ground-Up Gov...

Who are the dumplings? Dana Gray , Mary Lee , Navaz Mistry , Nico Sabourin , and Matt Fullbrook TRANSCRIPT: Matt  I have this amazing group of friends. We call ourselves the Dumpling Gang or Dumpling Days or some other variation on the dumpling theme. There are five of us, including me, Dana Gray, Mary Lee, Navaz Mistry, and Nico Sabourin. Although sometimes we… Get full access to Ground-Up Govern...

Illustration of Wanda Lopuch TRANSCRIPT Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook. And this episode features Wanda Lopuch. Wanda's journey brought her from Poland to Milwaukee where she finished her PhD. She then spent a few years in a pharmaceutical market research company in Phoenix, at which point she recognized an opportunit… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance a...

Image of Andrew Escobar TRANSCRIPT Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. This is Matt Fullbrook. In this episode, I talked to a real life unicorn with a horn and wings and everything. Okay...no, my conversation this time is with Andrew Escobar. What makes him so special? Andrew is in his mid 30s, and has more than a decade of board experience in a com… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance...

TRANSCRIPT Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. If you've already listened to the first few episodes, you've probably noticed a bit of a theme: something that honestly kind of surprises me! Even speaking to people who are deep technical experts, or who work in hugely formalized environments are trying to convince me that everything, from authority t… Get full access to Ground-Up Governance a...

  Matt Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. Today's episode is the companion to the third edition of the Ground-Up Governance newsletter, which provides definitions for business, company and customer. I know I frequently use the words business and company as if they're interchangeable, even though they're often pretty different. That's fine. Of course, if I say business when I mean company, it doe...

TRANSCRIPT: Matt  Welcome back to Sound-Up Governance. One of the most common conversations I have with boards of directors and senior executives is about to whom they owe a duty. On the surface, it seems like a simple question, but most of the time, everyone in the room has a different idea of what "duty" even means. So the question of where your duty lies takes a lot more work to explore than mo...

TRANSCRIPT: Matt  00:05 Welcome to episode 1 of Sound-Up Governance. My name is Matt Fullbrook, and today I’m chatting with my friend, Tiziana Casciaro, Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. We launched the Ground-Up Governance newsletter with the most fundamental concepts in corporate governance: “authority” and “power.” I mean, wha...