Guide: Creating a Skills Matrix
A Board Skills Matrix is a relatively simple grid or table which lists the essential skills and experience the board agrees it should...
23 August, 2022
Insights
Guide: Diverse Succession Planning
It is widely accepted that diverse boards are more effective. Regulators are taking far more interest in what boards are doing to mitigate...
04 August, 2022
Checklist: Creating a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
The purpose of your Diversity & Inclusion Strategy is to create real change in your organisation. This checklist breaks down the three key...
04 August, 2022
Keynotes: Why Your Boards Needs a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
It seems everyone’s talking about Diversity & Inclusion. In a recent PwC report racial and ethnic diversity topped the list as the single...
04 August, 2022
Guide: Interviews or Questionnaires?
Choosing between questionnaires or interviews can seem like choosing between lesser or deeper insight. But it doesn’t have to be. Questionnaire-based and interview-based...
13 July, 2022
Checklist: Avoiding Board Pitfalls
Why do clever people do stupid things? Independent Audit Founder, Jonathan Hayward and Dr. Paul Furey, Founder and CEO of Paul Furey Ltd....
13 June, 2022
Guide: Better Board Conversations
Boards exist to support the executive team in running an organisation legally and successfully. The topics they address can be tricky and the...
28 April, 2022
Guide: Risk Management Oversight
We often hear complaints from Non-Executive members of Audit and Risk Committees that “We’re not getting what we should out of our Risk...
06 April, 2022
Blog: Board Oversight Perspective
While US governance expectations differ from UK standards, Elizabeth Holmes’s recent conviction for fraud provides several insights into ways a board can fail...
23 February, 2022
Featured Article: The Great Board Reboot
In the wake of corporate scandals, a global pandemic and an uncertain economic and social recovery, all eyes are firmly on the board....
16 January, 2022