This month on the Governance Matters podcast, we're proud to unveil the latest addition to our team: Natalie Bannerman, who is taking on the mantle of senior reporter. A former telecoms and infrastructure journalist, a role she held for nearly seven year, Natalie also worked in the B2C startup space, covering lifestyle, arts and culture reporting. She speaks to us about her current projects, what she has made of 2025's busy proxy season and what she is looking forward to covering in the world of...
Aug 05, 2025•18 min
How much can lawyers lean on AI to help them with their jobs? Well, according to a new academic study, it may be more reliable than previously thought. A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan law schools seems to provide the first empirical evidence that AI tools can consistently improve the quality of legal analysis across various tasks. We speak with Daniel Schwarcz, professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, and Kari Endries, assistant ...
May 09, 2025•30 min
Many governance experts involved in the shareholder proposal process are asking questions following the release of new SEC guidance that essentially reverses a Biden-era staff legal bulletin (SLB) on the parameters and reasoning by which companies may seek the go-ahead to exclude resolutions from their proxy statements. Overall, the division of corporation finance’s move will likely lead to fewer ESG-related proposals making their way to a vote at AGMs, posing questions about what happens this y...
Mar 05, 2025•22 min
Executive compensation has been a focus for the SEC in recent years, with new rules in areas such as clawbacks and insider trading. The agency has also turned its enforcement eye to companies’ disclosures around executive perquisites, or perks. Our guest for this month’s episode of the Governance Matters podcast is Neil McCarthy, co-founder and chief product officer of DragonGC. He says there has been a particular enforcement focus on executives’ use of aircraft. He also explains that there is a...
Feb 10, 2025•22 min
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. In a series of episodes of the Governance Matters podcast we have been talking to some of the Corporate Governance Awards winners about the efforts behind their success and challenges they see in the coming year. In this episode we hear from Jorgensen about her work in the field of governance and sustainab...
Jan 14, 2025•39 min
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 s...
Dec 16, 2024•20 min
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Nov 27, 2024•23 min
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Oct 07, 2024•27 min
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Sep 10, 2024•21 min
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Jul 31, 2024•18 min
Director training and education is one of the keys to ensuring boards can fulfill their duties while adapting to changing circumstances affecting the company. Corporate secretaries and other governance professionals play the central role in planning for necessary information to be passed to the board, either from themselves or through in-house or external advisers. There’s no one-size-fits all approach but there are important lessons to help the board succeed and avoid potential problems. An eff...
Jul 03, 2024•18 min
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 performance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
Jun 05, 2024•19 min
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May 01, 2024•37 min
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Apr 03, 2024•28 min
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Mar 06, 2024•29 min
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Feb 07, 2024•31 min
The latest episode of Governance Intelligence’s Governance Matters podcast brings advice from experts on two of the biggest challenges facing companies in the year ahead: climate change and artificial intelligence . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 03, 2024•27 min
As the end of the year draws near, Governance Intelligence has been speaking to professionals about the major governance issues that lie ahead in 2024, ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) to ESG developments . Our aim, as always, is to share some of the best advice on how to tackle those challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 06, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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Nov 14, 2023•18 min
In this episode, Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota Law School tells editor-at-large Ben Maiden about new research he and his colleague Jonathan Choi conducted into law students’ use of AI. We also hear from director Margaret Preston about some of the challenges facing boards in 2024 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oct 04, 2023•36 min
In this episode of the Governance Matters podcast, a leading shareholder advocate reviews lessons from proxy season 2023 and looks ahead to next year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 07, 2023•29 min
In this episode, we also recap takeaways from Corporate Secretary’s ESG Integration Forum – Summer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 10, 2023•34 min
In the latest episode, we hear analysis of declining support for ESG resolutions and get advice on making the best of your company’s entity management program Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 07, 2023•37 min
In the latest episode of the podcast we hear about new possibilities for deploying technology in governance work Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 02, 2023•29 min
In this episode, we look at how AI presents risks and opportunities for in-house legal teams and law firms, and ask Robert Monks about his views on today’s executive compensation and how it might be reformed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 05, 2023•34 min
Boards increasingly face pressure to become more proactive and strategic about not only their company but also their own composition, structure and role. This episode shares commentary in this area and reports from the ESG Integration Forum – Europe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 07, 2023•29 min
Investors have thrown a spotlight for companies on social issues such as slavery. This episode looks at the challenges posed by an emerging legal framework around forced labor and how companies can address social risks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 03, 2023•47 min
This episode of the Governance Matters podcast looks at academic research revealing how women can negotiate traditional social expectations to have more influence in the boardroom Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 03, 2023•35 min
This episode of the Governance Matters podcast looks at trends in ESG-focused activism in Canada and some of the ways boards can respond Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 16, 2022•16 min
This episode of the Governance Matters podcast looks at how companies can tackle or avoid scandals and other negative events that can cause loss of revenue, reputational damage and erosion of shareholder value. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 18, 2022•20 min
