The Corporate Director Podcast

In this special, year-end edition of The Corporate Director Podcast, hosts Dottie Schindlinger and Rachel Simon are joined by longtime governance expert TK Kerstetter to look back on a year in governance and make their predictions for 2024!

The arena of geopolitical risk is evolving and expanding rapidly. How can companies keep up? What’s the role of the board? In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, John Rodi, Leader at KPMG’s Board Leadership Center, discusses why it’s so important for boards to be able to effectively assess and oversee geopolitical risk.

The podcast discusses trends in executive compensation, including the use of financial and non-financial metrics in short-term and long-term incentive plans, the usage of TSR as a modifier in compensation, and metrics for ESG goals and trends in incentive design.

In this episode, Charlotte Gustavsson, strategic advisor and former CEO of The Swedish Academy of Board Directors, delves into the governance fundamentals of Sweden and Europe more broadly; sharing insights on current and upcoming regulations.

Topics include multi-platform distribution, blockchain supply chain, metaverse audience segmentation, smart contracts, scorecards in Web 3.0

Exploring the balance between sustainability reporting and innovation, insights on business sustainability and positive impact on the environment, perspectives on green innovation in the US and Europe, future changes in boardrooms, and the importance of sustainability for innovation.

In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, Susan Angele, Senior Advisor at KPMG’s Board Leadership Center, digs into key takeaways from a recent paper, "Board Climate Competence: Advancing the Board-Management Conversation."

What’s the latest in the capital markets? How does the current IPO market look compared to 2021 and 2022? In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, we’re joined by Mark Baudler, a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, to talk trends and advice.

Dr. Meghan Anzelc, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Three Arc Advisory, explores ethical considerations in AI, including regulations and concerns in China, balancing AI abuse and innovation, the importance of ethical sourcing of data, AI deployment in sensitive areas, and the need for conversations at the board level to adapt and improve through AI.

Josh Black, Editor-in-Chief at Diligent Market Intelligence, talks shareholder activism and other voting trends from this year’s proxy season in this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms.