Directorcast

How are you adapting your practice as a director in today's rapidly evolving environment?   Marcel Mol, AICD’s General Manager, Education, is joined by governance specialist and Company Directors Course facilitator, Sonya Beyers FAICD, to discuss future-focused leadership.   Their discussion covers the critical importance of future-focused thinking in today’s rapidly evolving environment, what future-focused leadership looks like in practice, how directors can develop their skills in this area, and the consequences for organisations and directors that don’t adapt and evolve.

What does it take to be a successful chair? In this episode, Marcel Mol, AICD General Manager, Education and Stanislav Shekshnia, Associate Professor at INSEAD Business School in France, discuss new INSEAD research on the qualities that define successful chairs. They also discuss boards of the future and how they will adapt to new technology.

Terri Janke is a legal trailblazer. A Wurathi/Meriam woman from Cairns, she founded one of the first Indigenous-owned law firms in Australia. She advises businesses on legal matters including incorporation and governance. She is also an international authority on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Terri joined Marcel on the Directorcast to discuss the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act, which governs Indigenous organisations, as well as what motivated her to start her own law firm.

Marcel talks with Todd Sears, founder of Out Leadership, about where the idea came from, as well as the positive impact of valuing difference in the boardroom. Todd has worked as an investment banker, financial advisor and diversity leader. He created the first team of financial advisors on Wall Street to focus on the LGBT+ community, bringing $1.5 billion in new assets to Merrill Lynch. Todd has also led pioneering equality initiatives for Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. He serves on the non-profit boards of the Williams Institute of UCLA, The Palette Fund, the Global Equality Fund of the United States Department of State and Lambda Legal, and on the National Advisory Council of the Stonewall National Archives & Museum. 

In this first episode of the Directorcast, Marcel discusses emerging governance issues internationally such as trust, diverse governance regimes in Europe and board challenges with Professor Ludo Van Der Heyden, who is the Chaired Professor of Corporate Governance at INSEAD in Paris.