BoardVision

Do you ever wonder what other corporate leaders have done—and continue to do—to earn seats on private corporate boards?

Lynn Clarke, the 2021 NACD Directorship 100 Private Company Director of the Year and a board member of A. Duie Pyle, Basic American Foods, and The Vollrath Co., shares her journey. Hear from Clarke as she discusses the steps that she took to become a director of large private companies, her experiences on family company boards, CEO succession, corporate purpose, and much more.

Host: Elena Loveland
Guest: Lynn Clarke

What defines success as a corporate board member? 

Linda Fayne Levinson, the 2022 NACD Directorship 100 B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, former chair of Hertz Global Holdings, former independent lead director of Jacobs and NCR Corp., and a former board member of Western Union Co. shares her story. Learn from Fayne Levinson’s career fighting for her seat at the table at a time when women were not usually in the boardroom, using her positions of power to elevate women and other underrepresented people, giving back to the companies she serves, and her thoughts on pandemic-era changes in the boardroom.

Host: Elena Loveland
Guest: Linda Fayne Levinson

Boards of private, nonprofit, and public companies of all sizes are grappling with the changing nature of business and the effect on governance.

How can boards become and remain resilient in the face of volatility and future uncertainty is the question Friso van der Oord, NACD senior vice president of content, discusses with two members of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission that released the Future of the American Board: Luis A. Aguilar, NACD.DC, a board member at Donnelley Financial Solutions, Envestnet, and the NACD Atlanta Chapter and Jan Babiak, a board member of Bank of Montreal, the NACD Nashville advisory board, and Walgreens Boots Alliance, and a former board member of Euromoney Institutional Investor, Experian, and other companies.

Host: Friso van der Oord
Guests: Luis A. Aguilar and Jan Babiak

Discover the key questions and takeaways from this report that can help update and reinvigorate your own boardroom to be future-ready.