BoardPro Podcasts

What does it really mean to be a director?
This clear, practical session explains your personal responsibilities, legal duties and what good directors know—and do—before, during, and after meetings.

Whether you're a new director or have years of board experience, it's always important to understand, know and remember what being a director means when it comes to duties, roles and responsibilities. This session is a straightforward look at what the law expects, how responsibility sits with you as an individual, and the difference between staying in your lane and overstepping.

We’ll cover key principles of good governance, risks to be aware of, and how to think clearly about your role—especially given that no situation will ever occur twice and your decisions will depend on facts, circumstances and your knowledge of your role.  If you want to contribute with confidence, this is the place to start.

AI risk isn’t theoretical—it’s happening now.

Learn how boards across Australia and New Zealand are building fluency, oversight, and safeguards to steer their organisations through the AI era with confidence.

With 76% of companies already using AI—including 69% deploying generative AI—the risks are real, and the responsibilities are rising. Directors are now expected to foresee and govern the ethical, legal, and strategic impacts of AI.

In this session, we’ll unpack the evolving regulatory landscape, share practical tools to map AI use across your organisation, and explore how leading boards are managing shadow AI, black box decisions, and compliance threats. If you’re a Chair, Director or executive leader, this is your briefing on how to govern AI risk without outsourcing your judgement.

Governance lives in the grey zone—especially when it comes to the board’s role in Human Resources (HR) oversight. Join us to explore how boards can navigate this space with clarity and alignment. Discover how HR oversight can be interpreted—and applied—in ways that best serve your board’s unique context.

In this timely and practical webinar, we’ll explore how boards can bring clarity and alignment to their oversight of Human Resources. You’ll learn how to navigate the grey areas, establish appropriate boundaries, and ensure your governance approach supports both organisational strategy and workforce wellbeing.

What you’ll take away:

• A clearer understanding of the board’s responsibilities in HR matters
  
  
• Practical guidance for navigating areas like executive performance, succession, culture, and workforce risk
  
  
• Tools to align your HR oversight with your board’s purpose, structure, and risk appetite

Whether you're a board member, chair, or executive working closely with the board, this session will equip you with insights to govern with confidence in one of the most nuanced areas of board responsibility.

Governance lives in the grey zone—where strategy and risk meet oversight. Join us to explore how boards can navigate this space with clarity and alignment. Discover how strategic and risk oversight can be interpreted—and applied—in ways that best serve your board’s unique context.

Governance doesn’t happen in black and white. It lives in the grey zone—where strategic direction and risk oversight intersect. This space is complex, often unclear, and highly dependent on your board’s unique context.

In this practical and thought-provoking session, we’ll unpack how boards can navigate the grey zone with clarity, alignment, and confidence. You’ll learn how to interpret and apply strategic and risk oversight in ways that support sound decision-making and forward momentum.

Join us to explore:

• What the “governance grey zone” really means—and why it matters
  
  
• How boards can balance strategic opportunity with risk mitigation
  
  
• Practical tools to align your oversight with your organisation’s purpose and priorities

Whether you’re a director, chair, or executive supporting the board, this webinar will sharpen your understanding of governance at the intersection of strategy and risk—and help your board lead more effectively in uncertain times

What are your obligations as a business owner, and how do you know if you are actually compliant? Even with a small team or limited resources, there are simple tools you can use to create accountability and protect your business. This webinar will show you how to build a fit for purpose compliance programme that works.

Who should attend?

If you’re a leader in a small or medium-sized business, compliance can feel overwhelming, expensive, or like something only big corporates need to worry about. But the truth is, the risks are real—and so are the opportunities to get it right without over-engineering your approach.

This webinar will show you how to build a compliance program that’s fit-for-purpose: practical, cost-effective, and aligned with the size and stage of your business. You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and a toolkit you can apply immediately to protect your business, your reputation, and your future growth. If you’re unsure where to start—or worried you’re missing something—this session is for you.

AI doesn’t replace your expertise, it sharpens it. Learn how to use AI to cut through noise, highlight key insights, and walk into your next board meeting ready to ask the questions that matter.

"With 55% of board packs over 200 pages" (AICD), directors have limited time and little signal in the noise. AI can help you focus on what matters and show up sharper than ever.

Most directors and executives spend hours preparing for board meetings only to get lost in hundreds of pages of reports.

But what if AI could help you prep faster and smarter? This webinar shows how leaders are using AI to summarise complex board materials, and explore new insights to shape better questions, without compromising confidentiality.

You’ll see how to save time, sharpen your focus, and ask better questions that drive real outcomes. Whether you’re an executive reporting to the board or a director seeking clarity, this session is your shortcut to smarter board prep.

What Every Board Director Needs to Know Before Letting AI Into the Boardroom

AI is already supporting admin tasks across organisations - but board minutes? That’s governance territory. In this session, we reveal how boards are experimenting with AI, what risks are emerging, and how to trial smartly, without sacrificing trust or accountability.

Minutes are not just meeting notes, they’re legal records, strategic artifacts, and potential liabilities. As AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, Fireflies, and Otter slip into board workflows, many directors are starting to ask the question: Are we gaining efficiency, or risking everything?

What You’ll Learn

• The real opportunities AI brings to board admin
• The silent risks hiding in AI-generated transcripts and drafts
• How AI could impact confidentiality, legal privilege, and discoverability
• Why minute-taking ≠ transcription and what boards must protect

In a world dominated by rapid change, fear and increasing uncertainty. Decisions on Cyber Security are difficult. Stakeholders and customers are intolerant of mistakes and vendors are focused on ‘monetising anxiety’. The use of AI in both attack and defence is increasing the complexity of decision making.

This webinar will focus on how to develop an Adaptive Cyber Security Strategy for your organisation and will include:

• The role of the board in cyber security governance
• Creating resilience in the face of constant change
• Shifting form reactive to proactive operations
• Moving beyond compliance to threat informed decision making
• Workforce readiness and business first focus

We will use recent examples of our work (AGLX) and cases from other organisations to illustrate our points and will provide the ‘Adaptive Cyber Security Guide’ to participants at the end of the session.

Great governance depends on more than structure, it hinges on strong relationships, clarity, and trust. When boards and executive teams are aligned, organisations move with purpose and confidence. When roles blur, the friction can slow everything down.

In this practical and insightful session, we’ll explore how boards and management can strengthen collaboration through clearer roles, better communication, and a shared focus on purpose. We’ll focus on the critical relationships especially between the Chair and Chief Executive, and how mutual respect and alignment can drive better outcomes for everyone.

Whether you’re a director, executive, or work closely with both, this webinar will give you tools and insights to improve the dynamics at the board table

Sometimes, boards struggle to find the right balance—either glossing over crucial details in pursuit of the ‘big picture’ or getting lost in the weeds of operational minutiae, missing the strategic forest for the trees.

This webinar will show you how to write board reports that bring clarity, direction, and focus to your boardroom conversations. You’ll learn how to highlight what truly matters, frame information for strategic discussion, and support informed decision-making without overwhelming your board with unnecessary detail.

Whether you’re preparing reports for governance, strategy, or performance, this session will help you elevate your reporting to ensure the board stays focused, aligned, and engaged with the issues that really count.