The Corporate Director Podcast

Boards are operating in an environment shaped by geopolitical competition, supply chain fragility, rapid technological change, shifting government policy and persistent economic uncertainty. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Christina Alfonso, executive director and president of the Council on Global Competition and Innovation, explains why directors may be underestimating the long-term cost of fragmentation and the strategic risks created by technology and supply-chain dependencies.

Audit committees have traditionally focused on financial reporting, internal controls, and external audit. Today, their remit is much broader. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Christine Battist explores how audit committees can balance these foundational responsibilities with oversight of cybersecurity, AI, data governance, enterprise risk, regulatory change, and other emerging issues.

AI is reshaping how organizations work, but realizing its value requires more than deploying new tools. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Mary Lee Sharp—experienced chief human resources officer, board member and board advisor—explores why talent strategy, human capital governance and responsible AI adoption must be treated as interconnected board-level priorities.

AI transformation is changing how organizations operate—but many companies are discovering that the greatest risks are not technological. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Aniel Mahabier, founder of INOP explains why AI implementation failures are often visibility failures: organizations may have extensive workforce data, but lack the insight needed to understand how automation is changing work, capabilities and execution risk.

Digital assets are moving beyond niche cryptocurrency discussions and beginning to influence how companies manage payments, treasury operations, trading, investment decisions, and shareholder communications. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Susan Holliday, a global insurance expert and financial services board director, explains why boards should treat digital assets as an emerging strategic and risk topic—not simply as a question of whether to invest in Bitcoin.

In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, KPMG Board Leadership Center co-leader John Rodi shares a midyear check-in on the issues dominating today’s board agenda. He explains how those priorities have evolved by midyear as macro, geopolitical and governance risks converge and become even more urgent in boardroom conversations.

In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Global Data Innovation founder and CEO Dominique Shelton Leipzig explains why boards are at an AI crossroads and how they can seize this moment to put guardrails in place before risks spiral. Drawing on 25 years in cyber, privacy and digital governance, she describes seeing the same patterns of confusion, over-delegation and under-governance emerging around AI that allowed cyber risk to balloon into a multi-trillion-dollar drag on the global economy.

Director, author, and former C-suite executive Kathryn Henry joins this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast to explore what authentic, service-driven leadership looks like in today’s boardrooms. As a director on the board of Lululemon and author of the memoir A Dime to Say I Love You, Henry brings a deeply personal journey to her approach to governance, sharing how life-altering experiences reshaped the way they show up as a leader and director.

What really differentiates the world’s most ethical boards from the rest, and how does that translate into better performance and risk oversight? In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, ethics and compliance leaders Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer at Ethisphere and Executive Chair of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance, and Neta Meidav, Vice President of Business and Product Strategy for Ethics & Compliance at Diligent and founder of Vault Platform, unpack new joint research on the world’s most ethical boardrooms. Drawing on 20 years of Ethisphere data and Diligent’s unique window into board practices, they reveal the concrete mechanics behind ethical board governance.

Quantum computing is moving from theory to boardroom reality—and with it comes a new class of cyber risk and strategic opportunity. In this episode of the Corporate Director Podcast, Diligent Institute’s Senior Research & Programs Manager, Kira Ciccarelli, speaks with Dr. Aaron Kemp, US Quantum Leader at KPMG, about what corporate directors really need to know now.