Jane Sadowsky

1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Jane Sadowsky

   Transformative innovation and shifting balance: How boards can track stakeholder momentum | Fortune (opens the original)

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   The Wright brothers kept their airplane in the air for just 12 seconds. For the next several decades, the real innovation was not simply making airplanes fly farther or faster. Airports were built. Pilots were trained. Air traffic control emerged. Insurance markets developed. Governments established safety standards. Travelers gradually became comfortable climbing into airplanes. Today, most of us board a flight without giving any of that a second thought. We are more likely to complain about de

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2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Jane Sadowsky

   Boards were built for a vertical world. Risk has gone horizontal | Fortune (opens the original)

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   Corporate governance is being stress-tested, not at the margins, but at the level of its underlying architecture. The modern board model was shaped in the industrial era, when companies were hierarchical, risks were more contained, and change moved more slowly. Governance followed that structure: information flowed up through management, and oversight flowed down from the board. That model still defines how most boards operate today. But the environment it was built for has changed. What’s emerg

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