The Better Boards Podcast Series

By Dr Sabine Dembkowski

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Our mission at Better Boards is to contribute to creating better boards. We do this by providing clients with an evidence-based approach to board evaluations and development programmes. To fulfil our mission, we give a voice to all who are care about creating better boards - Chairs, CEOs, SIDs, NEDs, Company Secretaries, Academicians, investors, and regulators. 
All the views expressed in our podcasts are those of our podcast partners and not those of Better Boards. 
In each episode, you’ll get insights from those at the frontline. Every time you tune in, you develop and reinvigorate your board know-how and practice with insights, creative problem-solving, and practical advice. 
New episodes are available every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month.


Episode Date
Increasing productivity through inclusion
May 02, 2024
Experience of working with a board as a first-time CEO
Apr 18, 2024
How can boards convert sustainability from a wish to a winning reality?
Apr 02, 2024
U.S. and U.K. – Two countries separated by common corporate governance practices?
Mar 20, 2024
What do board members need to think about to avoid being sued by the climate movement?
Mar 07, 2024
Behind close doors of tech start-up Boards
Feb 15, 2024
Can accounting save the world and your company?
Feb 01, 2024
AI - What questions do Directors need to ask?
Jan 18, 2024
Leading an effective board - Andreas E.F. Utermann, Executive Chair, Vontobel Holding AG
Jan 04, 2024
Why a good story is mission critical for boards | Jyoti Gupta, Story teller and award winning author
Dec 21, 2023
Executive Pay - Striking the right balance between Executives and stakeholders | Paul Norris, Senior Partner MM&K Limited
Dec 07, 2023
The inspiring life of a Director | Paul Halpin, Non-Executive Director
Nov 16, 2023
On being an effective Non-Executive Director | Marianne Loner, Non-Executive Director
Nov 02, 2023
The Board as a Team | Petri Hofste, Non-Executive Director
Oct 18, 2023
The Retention Factor: Why Boards Need to Prioritize LGBT+ Inclusion | Emma Codd, Global Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Deloitte
Oct 05, 2023
Governance - Are boards part of the problem or part of the solution? | Ralph Ward, Editor, The Corporate Board
Sep 21, 2023
On making it in the boardroom | Imran Saleem, Partner, Egon Zehnder
Sep 07, 2023
Building a Successful Employee Engagement Process | Louise Hardy, NED and Kevin Maguire General Counsel & Company Secretary, Crest Nicholson
Aug 17, 2023
Managing Governance Risks | Liz Lynkswiler, Company Secretary, Brightwell Pensions
Jul 19, 2023
Gender equality in the workplace starts at the top | Emma Codd, Global Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Deloitte
Jul 06, 2023
AI - Rethinking business | Karen Silverman
Jun 14, 2023
How do boards preside wisely over transactions to avoid shareholder value destruction? | Dr Dean Blomson
Jun 01, 2023
The role of the next generation in family-owned enterprises | Martin Roll
May 18, 2023
On being an effective Director in family-owned enterprises | Martin Roll
May 04, 2023
The role of boards in family-owned enterprises | Martin Roll
Apr 20, 2023
Governance challenges in Africa | Tinuade Awe, CEO of NGX Regulation, a subsidiary of Nigerian Exchange Group Plc
Apr 06, 2023
On building inclusive and equitable cultures in the boardroom and throughout the organisation | Dr Doyin Atewologun, Director Delta Alpha Psi
Mar 16, 2023
The essence of good governance | Dr Peter Crow
Mar 02, 2023
Governance - Wicked challenges in healthcare | Nabil Jamshed, Head of Corporate Governance at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust for the Integrated Specialist Medicine Clinical Group
Feb 16, 2023
The power of trust – How can boards build it, lose it, and regain it | Prof Sandra Sucher, Harvard Business School
Feb 02, 2023
On increasing the quality of the dialogue in the boardroom | Prof David Clutterbuck
Jan 17, 2023
Diversity & Inclusion – The Board's role as 'agents of change' | Prof Randall Peterson, London Business School
Jan 05, 2023
Boards under pressure | Sir John Tusa, Chair
Dec 15, 2022
Boards - Geopolitical challenges & Diversity | Nassib Abou Kahlil, Top Corporate Legal Officer
Dec 01, 2022
On creating a digitally savvy board | Peter Weill, Senior Research Scientist MIT Sloan School of Management and Chair Emeritius MIT Center for Information Systems Research
Nov 17, 2022
Future-proofing your board | Didier Cossin, Professor IMD Switzerland
Nov 03, 2022
Is your board adapting to a dynamically changing risk environment? | Zahra Cassim, CEO CSIA and David Samy, Consulting Partner EY Hong Kong
Oct 20, 2022
Rethinking talent in the boardroom | Joe Fuller, Professor Harvard Business School
Oct 06, 2022
Establishing a global mindset in the boardroom | Thomas Kipp, CEO Naquel Express
Sep 14, 2022
CEO Readiness | Dr Wayne Nelson, Senior Partner at Deloitte Consulting and Strategy Consulting Leader EMEA at Monitor Deloitte. Head and Founding Dean of the Deloitte Executive Leadership Institute.
Aug 31, 2022
The role of the board in defining the purpose of the organisation | Gill Meller, Legal & Governance Director MTR Corporation
Aug 17, 2022
The environment in the boardroom: On overcoming obstacles | Susan Hooper, Chair & Non-Executive Director
Aug 04, 2022
Digital know-how in the boardroom | Hasan el Bouhali, Board Advisor, Mentor & Angel Investor
Jul 20, 2022
The board as an agent of change | Denis Woulfe, Co-Chair of Leaders as Change Agents
Jun 29, 2022
From Executive to "Professional NED" | Ian Murray, Chair or various mining companies
Jun 15, 2022
Generation Z in the boardroom | Hana Ben-Shabat, Gen Z Planet
Jun 01, 2022
Why should boards care about supply chains? | Anahita Thoms, Baker McKenzie
May 18, 2022
Chairing the board of a Growth Business | Peter Herbert, Chair Zopa Bank and Bank of Ireland
May 04, 2022
The status of ethnic diversity on FTSE boards | David Tyler, Chair The Parker Review
Apr 20, 2022
Board Evaluations - What does good really look like? Part II | Maureen Beresford, Financial Reporting Council
Mar 31, 2022
Board Evaluations - what does good really look like? Part I | Maureen Beresford, Financial Reporting Council
Mar 17, 2022
Creating A Sustainability-Savvy Board | Trista Bridges, Read the Air
Mar 03, 2022
Spreading good governance practice around the globe | Bode Ayeku, Corporate Secretaries International Association
Feb 16, 2022
Proactive Questions every board member should be asking | Dr Andrew White, SAID Business School
Feb 03, 2022
ESG - What should boards focus on | Anna-Marie Slot, Partner, Ashurst LLP
Jan 20, 2022
The changing role of CEOs and their relationship with their boards | Dr Kati Najipoor-Smith, Co-Leader Global CEO Practice, Egon Zehnder
Jan 05, 2022
The role of the board in the age of digital transformation | Lisa Harrington, Non-Executive Director Post Office UK and Digital 9 Infrastructure Plc
Dec 15, 2021
Diversity & Inclusion - See differently | David Clarke, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Dec 02, 2021
The digitisation of the board | Maddie Scrafton, Computershare Governance Services
Nov 17, 2021
Responding to the ESG agenda – legal insights for boards | Anna-Marie Slot, Will Chalk, Partners, Ashurst LLP
Nov 03, 2021
Integrating different perspectives in the boardroom | Sir John Tusa, Chair British Architecture Trust, Former MD BBC World Service and Barbican Arts Centre
Oct 21, 2021
Transitioning from CEO to Chair | Steve Holliday, Chair Citifibre and Zenobe, President of the Energy Institute, Former CEO at National Grid
Oct 07, 2021
Changing the racial diversity on FTSE boards | Richard DeNetto, Associate Director CBI
Sep 16, 2021
Creating a high-performance culture in the boardroom | Ralph Schubert, Senior Partner, Coverdale Team Management
Sep 02, 2021
Going beyond governance – The art of talking about what really matters | Jim Haudan, Co-founder and CEO of Root Inc now part of Accenture
Aug 19, 2021
The Alignment of Executives and Non-Executives in the Boardroom | Ken Schuetz, CEO and Founder of Aligned Influence Consulting
Aug 05, 2021
Hybrid working and controls – What should boards think about? | John Mongelard, Technical Manager - Risk & Regulation at ICAEW
Jul 15, 2021
Culture, it all starts in the boardroom | Mike Gahir, Chair of the Board of Trustee at Steps to Work
Jul 01, 2021
Putting the 'S' in ESG | Margot Slattery, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, ISS A/S
Jun 17, 2021
The role of the Company Secretary in major transactions | Nickesha Graham-Burrell, Head of Company Secretariat, OSB Group PLC
Jun 03, 2021
The role of the Company Secretary in increasing the effectiveness of Non-Executive Directors | John Mills, Company Secretary, Smiths Group PLC
May 20, 2021
Board Reporting - The indispensable part of effective boards | David Whincup, Deputy Company Secretary, Provident Financial Group
May 06, 2021
The role of the Company Secretary in creating future-fit boards | Loren Wulfsohn, Global Head of Policy and Stakeholder Engagement, HSBC Holdings PLC
Apr 15, 2021
Diversity & Inclusion - Insights from the U.K. and Mercedes-Benz AG | Sabine Kohleisen, Member of the Board of Management at Mercedes-Benz AG, and Denise Wilson | CEO, Hampton-Alexander Review
Apr 01, 2021
Punks in the boardroom | Christopher Pirnie, Principal at Kuberno Consulting. Former Director of Governance Operations and Policy, Fidelity International
Mar 18, 2021
The relationship between the Chair and the CEO - How can you make it work? | Sir John Tusa, Chair British Architecture Trust, Former MD BBC World Service and Barbican Arts Centre
Mar 04, 2021
Building a culture of challenge | Professor Karthik Ramanna, Professor of Business & Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
Feb 18, 2021
Board recruiting - The search for unicorns | Carol Leonard CEO and Angela Hocter | Head of Research at the Inzito Partnership
Feb 04, 2021
A pulse check on boards of VC-backed organisations in 2021 | Alexander Leigh, Investment Manager at Development Bank of Wales
Jan 21, 2021
Creating effective boards - The 7-hallmarks of effective boards | Dr Sabine Dembkowski, Managing Partner at Better Boards
Jan 07, 2021
Alignment in the boardroom | Rich Berens, CEO, Author and President at Root Inc part of Accenture
Dec 17, 2020
Board performance & cognitive diversity in the boardroom | Stephen Page, Head of EMEA Board Engagement at NASDAQ
Dec 03, 2020
Politicians in the boardroom – can they add value or are they a nuisance? | Carwyn Jones, Former First Minster of Wales
Nov 19, 2020
Defining purpose and values in the boardroom | Alison Platt, Chair at LGFA at Legal & General and NED at Tesco PLC, Dechra PLC and Spectrum Life Healthcare
Nov 05, 2020
Integration - the elephant in the boardroom | Yetunde Hofmann, NED & Trustee
Oct 14, 2020
Finding your voice in the boardroom | Orna NiChionna, Chair National Trust, SID Saga PLC, NED Burberry PLC. Formerly McKinsey
Oct 01, 2020
Why does ethnic diversity matter in British boardrooms? | Joelle Warren, Founding Partner and Chair and Khurram Hussain Consultant Partner at Warren Partners
Sep 16, 2020
The role of the Chair in a successful merger | Philip Aiken, Chair at Aveva PLC and Balfour Beatty PLC
Sep 02, 2020
Resilience in the governance market | David Press, CEO at DMJ Recruitment
Aug 19, 2020
Managing Megaprojects | Professor Bent Flyvbjerg, SAID Business School
Aug 06, 2020
Addressing climate change as a Non-Executive Director | Susan Hooper, Chair Care Sourcer, NED at Uber, Affinity Water and Moonpig. Founding Director Chapter Zero
Jul 15, 2020
The role of the Chair in managing investor relations | Mark Tennant, Chair at BMO Private Equity Trust PLC
Jul 01, 2020
Increasing performance in the Company Secretariat | Laura McNeil, Assistant Company Secretary at Blue Prism PLC
Jun 17, 2020
Bringing cybersecurity know-how into the boardroom | Frank Satterwhite, CEO at 1600 Cyber
Jun 03, 2020
COVID-19 - A view from a FTSE100 Non-Executive Director | Ron Mobed, NED Aveva PLC, Robert Walters and Ordnance Survey and Supervisory Board Member at Fugro
May 21, 2020
COVID-19 - Thoughts from the CEO of a Professional Service Firm | Sarah Walker-Smith, CEO at Shakespeare Martineau
May 06, 2020
What counts now! Board leadership in times of Covid-19 | Malcolm McKenzie, Managing Partner at Alvarez & Marsal
Apr 15, 2020
COVID-19 - Insights from the CEO of a game-changing UK tech start-up | Anthony Rose, CEO at SeedLegals
Apr 01, 2020
What really matters in the boardroom in 2020 and beyond | Sir John Parker, Chair Pennon PLC and Laing O'Rourke, Director of Carnival Corporation & PLC and lead NED at the Cabinet Office.
Mar 19, 2020
Strategies for overcoming assumptions about climate change in the boardroom | Lindsay Hooper, Executive Director Institute for Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge
Mar 05, 2020
The impact of climate change on the duties of Directors | Philippe Joubert, Chair Global Electricity Initiative, Founder and CEO Earth on Board
Feb 20, 2020
Tackling climate change - Insights from world-leading climate scientist | Dr Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director, Cambridge Zero at University of Cambridge
Feb 06, 2020
The link between effective boards and organisational performance | Steve Maslin, Governor Nuttfield Health. NED Carey´s PLC, Royal Collection Trust, Ark Schools Academy Trust and Trustee The Gurkha Museum Trust
Jan 16, 2020
Speaking up in the boardroom and the critical role of Psychological Safety | Prof Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School
Jan 02, 2020
Creating effective relationships between investors, the board and management | John Barton, Chair EasyJet PLC and Next PLC
Dec 19, 2019
Securing a role on a FTSE board | Carol Leonard, CEO at The Inzito Partnership
Nov 28, 2019
A VCs perspective on boards in young tech companies | Alexander Leigh, Investment Manager at Investment Bank of Wales
Nov 21, 2019
Information overload in the boardroom | Zsuzsanna Schiff, Manager Audit & Reporting at ICAEW and Hitesh Patel, NED Aviva Life Holdings, Capital Home Loans and Enstar
Nov 07, 2019
How Company Secretaries can create better boards | Carolyn Ferguson, Company Secretary at Go-Ahead Group PLC
Oct 16, 2019
Challenges in tackling climate change | Julie Baddeley, Chair Chapter Zero, NED TI Fluid Systems PLC, Ebiquity PLC and SID Marshall of Cambridge
Oct 03, 2019
The Chairman’s role in creating better boards | Andrew Allner, Chair SIF PLC, FOX Marble Holdings PLC and Shepherd Building Group
Sep 19, 2019