BoardPro Podcasts

In this focused webinar, Giselle is joined by internationally recognised governance specialists Steven Bowman, and Julie Garland McLellan for a grounded and insightful conversation about exceptional chairing. 

Together, they’ll unpack the behaviours, processes, and roles of highly effective chairs – drawing on decades of board experience across sectors. You’ll hear what great chairs do differently, how they create the conditions for productive meetings, and why the role is so central to board performance and culture. 

If you’re curious about developing your chairing capacity or want a taste of the frameworks and tools included in the full courses, this is the perfect place to start. 

What You’ll Learn in This Free Webinar

Attending this webinar will give you practical insights into what makes an exceptional chair. This will help you to:

• Lead meeting with greater clarity, confidence, and control.
• Build stronger relationships with your board and executive team.
• Handle challenging dynamics with composure and fairness.
• Lift your board’s overall performance and culture

Effective directors benefit from understanding 'the art and science of influencing', inside and outside of the boardroom. Explore how you can increase your impact and contribute to better organisational outcomes.

Board members and senior leaders of today must manage power dynamics, geopolitical risks, and economic uncertainty. This webinar covers effective stakeholder influence and negotiation amid changing alliances, trade issues, and regulations. With expert and participant insights, plus real-world case studies, this 45-minute introductory session focuses on:

• the impact of improved preparation
• using a multi-scenario negotiation approach
• building credibility individually and organisationally
• applying reception psychology to conflict management and decision-making
• validating and understanding your negotiation style
• finding actionable strategies for personal growth

Directors don’t emerge from a pristine vacuum. They have lives with relationships, ownership of assets, and contractual duties which impact their ability to focus solely on the long-term best interests of your company. Any interest can become a conflict of interest — and even perceived conflicts can undermine trust, decision-making, and board confidence if they’re not handled well. Left unmanaged, small issues can quickly escalate into governance risks, reputational damage, or strained relationships around the board table. Proactive and transparent management is essential to maintaining integrity and protecting the organisation’s credibility.

This webinar will give you the practical tools, tips, and templates to successfully manage your board’s conflicts of interest, strengthen transparency, and ensure your governance processes support clarity, fairness, and strong decision-making. You’ll learn how to identify different types of conflicts, how to document and declare them, and how to create a consistent framework that supports both compliance and good culture.

See how BoardPro can quickly and efficiently manage your board and executive declared conflicts of interest and have these easily available for review at any time, ensuring your board can act with confidence, clarity, and complete transparency.

This webinar will help Directors and governance executives in organisations of all types understand Board Fees: Who? Why? What? and How Much?

The convergence of regulatory, governance and data issues can be tricky – this webinar will help you make board fee management into a positive attribute, not a risk factor!

This webinar will help you better navigate the spectrum of issues around board fees and, in particular, to understand issues relating to the quantum ($) of fees.  

The webinar will be helpful whether your organisation has been paying fees for years or whether you are still considering whether to pay fees.

If you are a director, you need to be aware of how to:

• Raise issues around Board fees without seeming self-serving, and while being sensitive to the culture of the organisation, especially if it is NFP.
• Make board fees a natural part of the organisation strategy, structure and culture (not an embarrassing issue that is avoided)
• Be confident about market norms and the possible approaches related to Board fees, and how to select the right mix for your organisation
• Understand stakeholder issues, perceptions and concerns regarding Board fees

Not every health and safety risk is visible. Many of the most damaging ones show up in how people lead, work, and interact.

Most boards take health and safety seriously when it comes to physical risks, but it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to measuring, monitoring, and reducing mental harm.

Join us to explore what psychosocial risk is, how it differs from psychological safety, and what good governance looks like when the risks come from culture, workload, or behaviour rather than the physical environment or tools.

Whether you're on a board or in a leadership role, this webinar will help you understand, manage and govern one of the least visible – and most critical – areas of risk.

Learn the fine art of CEO reporting to the board in four simple steps in 45 minutes from industry and governance experts.

A well-crafted CEO report is more than an update—it’s your most powerful communication tool. The best reports don’t just inform the board; they align directors around priorities, highlight risks, and spark meaningful discussion about the future. Whether you’re leading a nonprofit, small business, or growing enterprise, the right structure helps transform data into insight and insight into action.

What You’ll Learn in This Free Webinar

In just 45 minutes, you’ll learn:

• How to structure your CEO report for clarity, focus, and impact.
• Which key metrics and insights boards value most.
• How to balance operational detail with strategic foresight.
• Tips from governance experts on writing concise, high-trust summaries that keep your board engaged.

Are you struggling to balance the competing interests and priorities of your Board and management? This webinar will teach you the keys to success. We'll explore how factors like your organisation's size and crises are influencing and impacting the line between governance and management, and how you can align expectations for high performance.

1. Clarify the Governance–Management Boundary
Help you understand the often-blurred line between governance and management, especially in contexts where organisational size, complexity, or external pressures create tension.

2. Explore the Impact of Organisational Context
Examine how factors such as the size of the organisation and the presence of crises influence the roles, responsibilities, and boundaries between board and management.

3. Align Expectations for High Performance
Provide strategies to align the expectations of both the board and management so they can work together effectively toward shared goals.

4. Equip Leaders with Practical Tools
Offer practical insights and frameworks that directors, chairs, and executives can use to balance competing priorities and foster constructive collaboration.

Join us for an engaging session designed for directors and executives ready to lead on the Social pillar of ESG. Discover practical frameworks, governance tools, and real-world examples to strengthen accountability, manage risk, and spot opportunities. Learn how investor expectations, regulatory shifts, and global standards are raising the bar - and how integrating social considerations into governance can drive both impact and long-term value and support effective decision-making.

Whether you're a board member, executive, or team leader, this webinar will empower you to turn the S of ESG into opportunities for growth and strategic alignment.

Objectives:

• Gain board-ready insights on how to integrate the Social (“S”) pillar.
• Understand investor and regulatory expectations shaping the future of ESG.
• Access practical frameworks and real-world examples.
• Identify opportunities for competitive advantage.
• Equip your board to lead with transparency, ethics, and impact.

What's making your sweat?

Are you facing complex questions around strategy, governance or AI? How about risk and resilience, culture, or representation? In this session we’ll address the stickiest issues facing each of these areas, as voted by you, on the day.

To surface the biggest challenges, we’ll use 'Group Wisdom', a technique developed by Peakbalance to take your collective input on the fly. It’s instant, anonymous and will allow us to address the ‘unspeakable’ things.

We’ll then turn to the mighty Julie Garland McLellan, CEO of The Directors Dilemma to share her insights into tackling these most vexing of issues.

If you’re wondering where the real challenges are likely to lay in your governance journey, this is a webinar not to be missed. Your perspective will be captured in real time and we can’t wait to see what is (really) challenging boards in the year ahead.

Join us for a sharp and insightful 45-minutes webinar exploring the foundations of good governance through a global lens. We’ll unpack international governance standards, examine real-world events from around the globle, and consider how these lessons can lift the effectiveness of boards here in New Zealand and Australia.

Whether you’re a trustee, director, or chair, this session will help you:

• Understand how key governance principles are defined around the world.
• Gain practical tools to improve compliance, leadership, and board culture.
• Reflect on your own role and responsibilities in light of global best practice.

Led by governance expert Tracey Cross and joined by international panellists Miranda Flury and Steve Bowman, this webinar offers an opportunity to benchmark, reflect, and reframe how we do governance – locally and globally.