How are you adapting your practice as a director in today's rapidly evolving environment?

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 discusses the CATSI Act.

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.