When you’ve spent enough years in boardrooms, you develop a sixth sense. You can tell when a topic is performative and when it is existential. Governance is firmly in the second category in 2026. The questions are knife-sharp. The scrutiny
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Meet the executive search leaders redefining who leads America’s most powerful companies. For decades, they worked in the background. While shareholders debated earnings and boards wrestled with strategy, a small, elite cadre of executive search consultants were doing something quietly
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By Shawn Cole — Shawn Cole is a widely published voice on C-suite leadership, board governance, and executive recruitment. His analysis appears in outlets such as Forbes, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review, where he examines emerging
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Dylan Haggart is a Canadian-born investor and corporate director who brings governance-focused investment strategies into boardroom decision-making. As Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Fivespan Partners and a director at Seagate Technology Holdings plc, he operates at the intersection
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By Mark Steranka, Consulting Managing Principal at Baker Tilly Despite ongoing economic and policy volatility, mid-market leaders are entering the year ahead with confidence and resolve. According to Baker Tilly’s 2026 Mid-Market Report, leaders are taking a pragmatic, action-oriented approach, prioritizing controllable factors in an uncertain economic and
The language around ESG is becoming strained, the political noise is deafening, and yet, the underlying risks and opportunities have not changed at all. Boardrooms are under pressure from both directions. Investors want deeper disclosure and stronger links between ESG
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As boards prepare to turn the page on 2025 and convene for their first meetings of the New Year, they are mapping out their agendas. Mainstays of this meeting include risk and strategy. While these issues should remain in focus,
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By Karina Frayter, Corporate Affairs Executive, University Trustee, NYSE Board Diversity Initiative Member Reputation is no longer shaped solely by what organizations say or do. Algorithms now play a central role. The rapid rise of AI-powered search and generative content
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The people who run the world’s biggest companies are not talking about quarterly earnings anymore. They are talking about survival and growth in an environment that is moving faster than ever before. The old, slow, comfortable cadence of governance is
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The board was not surprised that the company missed another market window. Disappointed, yes. Shocked, no. The internal memo summed it up neatly, “Regulatory and HR constraints.” Strategic or legal counsel didn’t say no. HR did. It’s the kind of
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