Podcasts

This year’s lifetime achievement award-winner Helle Bank Jorgensen talks about her work with boards on sustainability matters When Governance Intelligence presented its 17th annual Corporate Governance Awards recently, Helle Bank Jorgensen, founder and CEO of Competent Boards, received the lifetime achievement award. Jorgensen is the founder and CEO of Competent Boards, a global organization offering accreditations for senior leadership. Board members and executives in more than 55 countries hold the Global Competent Boards Designation and Certification in Sustainability, ESG, Climate and Biodiversity due to Helle’s bespoke education programs. In a series of episodes of the Governance Matters podcast we have…

This month we hear from Nasdaq, which was crowned governance team of the year (large cap) Governance Intelligence recently presented our 17th annual Corporate Governance Awards at a gala event in New York, where a few hundred of the best and brightest in the profession got to let their hair down while celebrating success in the field. The awards honor outstanding achievements by the profession in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, use of technology, proxy statements, investor engagement and corporate transactions. In a series of episodes of our podcast Governance Matters we’re…

In a short series of episodes we will hear from some of the winners of this year’s Corporate Governance Awards about their achievements and the road ahead Earlier this month Governance Intelligence presented our 17th annual Corporate Governance Awards at a gala event in New York. The awards celebrate outstanding achievements by the governance profession in areas such as hosting AGMs, compliance and ethics programs, ESG reporting, entity management, use of technology, proxy statements, investor engagement and corporate transactions. Over the next few episodes of the podcast we’ll hear from some of the winners about the work that the judges…

In the latest episode of the Governance Matters podcast, Ron Schneider of Donnelley Financial Solutions discusses best practices for these key documents Governance Intelligence is inviting members of governance teams from around the world to take part in a new online survey. Governance professionals often find it helpful to benchmark their work against the efforts being made by others at peer companies. That knowledge can be reassuring in showing that they’re on the right track, constructive in directing their efforts in a new direction or helpful in lobbying for additional resources from the company if needed. By taking part in…

Angela Grant of Palomar Holdings discusses how to develop a successful board education program Surveys of company executives indicate that their number problem with ESG is the multitude of partially conflicting and overlapping reporting frameworks and regulations:one estimate puts the number of ESG reporting frameworks at 600 worldwide. Another source, the healthcare, tax and accounting consultancy Wolters Kluwer, lists ‘multiple ESG frameworks’ as amongthe five biggest hurdlesto effective ESG reporting. But things might be slowly taking a turn for the better, partially as a result of investors pushing for more uniform and financially relevant ESG standards. Responding to investor pressure…

JLL’s Seth Gastwirth talks about how to design and make the most of assessments and how to plan a submission to this year’s Corporate Governance Awards Board assessments are an essential part of governance work and key to making sure directors can function well as individuals and as a team. In this episode of the Governance Matters podcast from Governance Intelligence, we hear from Seth Gastwirth, deputy general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), about why board assessments are so important, how they can best be designed and how the results can be used to improve…