Across the Board

In this episode of Across the Board, I visit with Amii Barnard-Bahn. Today’s topic is the ongoing turmoil at Tesla around its founder and CEO Elon Musk and his ‘funding secured’ tweet from the corporate governance perspective.   

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In this very special episode of Across the Board, I continue my celebration of 1000 podcasts on the Compliance Podcast Network. In this episode of Across the Board. I visit with Sheila Hooda about the changes she has seen at the Board level over the past five years. 

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In this episode of Across the Board, I visit with Amii Barnard-Bahn.  She is a strategic advisor to Boards of Director and executive coach many C-Suite members. She specializes in accelerating the success of C-Suite executives and partner with leaders and teams to help scale their business. We discuss the recent turmoil at Papa John’s pizza around first racial comments by its founder John Schnatter.

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In this episode of Across the Board, I visit with Preston Pugh and AIysha Hussain from the firm of Miller & Chevalier on their recent paper entitled, “A More Effective Way For Corporate Boards To Respond In A #MeToo World” which they authored with Ian Herbert. In this paper they suggest ways Boards of Directors could begin to address corporate harassment scandals. We use their article as a starting point to explore the roles and responses of Boards to the #MeToo and other corporate scandals.

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Managing Director of Strategy at LRN. We discuss how leading with principles has become even more important after the current wave of corporate scandals all in the context of Board of Directors accountability.

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In this episode I consider the role of the Board of Directors in having a Compliance Committee and having a compliance expert on the Board itself. This lack of a key resource to the Board is something which has now drawn the attention of regulators and prosecutors. 

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In this episode, I visit with Joel Solomon on his new book "The Clean Money Revolution".

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One of the ongoing questions from members of Board of Directors is how to resolve the tension between oversight and managing. I recently had the opportunity to visit with Joe Howell, the Executive Vice President (EVP) of Workiva, Inc. on this subject. Howell had a short response which I thought was an excellent starting point to understand the role; put sand in the shoes of management. 

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In this episode I visit again with Rakhi Kumar, the Managing Director, Head of ESG and Asset Stewardship at State Street Global Advisors. We discuss the firm’s role in advocating for greater Board of Director Diversity. With a campaign which began with the ‘Fearless Girl” statue in Wall Street, to pushing companies in the US, UK, England, Canada and Japan to include more female candidates at the Board of Director level.

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In this episode I discuss a Board of Director's obligations for a compliance program and how a Board might prudently discharge that obligation.

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