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Welcome to The Boardroom Path, the essential podcast for aspiring and newly appointed Non-Executive Directors navigating the journey from executive leadership to the boardroom.
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Dean Canham on Boardroom Leadership Beyond Command (opens the original)
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What does leadership look like when nobody in the room can simply give an order? In this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Lieutenant Colonel Dean Canham OBE, former head of the Centre for Army Leadership, about leading in a setting where authority is collective and the chair has limited unilateral power. Dean sets out the Army's definition of leadership as character, knowledge and action that inspires others to succeed, and explains why he treats leadership as a capa
What Chairs and Headhunters Really Want From a NED with Marianne Macdonald (opens the original)
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How do board careers actually get made, and how much of that can a candidate control? In this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Marianne Macdonald, founder and CEO of The 350 Club and The Board Directory, about the hidden board market and why between a half and two thirds of board appointments never involve an intermediary. Marianne spent seven years as a board headhunter at The Zygos Partnership before building three platforms for senior board talent, so she sees bot
Megan Pantelides on the Uncomfortable 37% (opens the original)
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What should a board change first if only 37% of directors think it is essential to creating value? Ralph Grayson visits Board Intelligence to talk to Megan Pantelides, author of the Board Value Index, about the third edition of the research. Drawing on more than 400 non-executive directors, chief executives and finance directors across the UK, US, Middle East and, for the first time, the Nordics, it finds that 86% of directors say rigid processes and inconsistent frameworks contributed to a dela
Shefaly Yogendra on Boardroom Decision Making under Uncertainty (opens the original)
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Can a board certify judgement, or does judgement only show up under pressure? In this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Dr Shefaly Yogendra, board director, decision-making researcher and author of Uncharted Spaces: Reset the Agenda. Reimagine the Boardroom, about how boards decide when precedent runs out. Shefaly argues that most boards were designed for a world that no longer exists, that certification gives a novice a baseline but cannot produce boardroom behaviour
Dorothy Burwell on Adaptive Capacity and the Human Side of Governance (opens the original)
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Why do some boards freeze the moment pressure arrives, while others adapt and lead? In this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Dorothy Burwell, Global Head of Board Advisory at FGS Global and a board director at Post Holdings and Pennon plc, about what she calls adaptive capacity, the ability to learn, unlearn and make sound judgement calls when experience alone is no longer enough. Dorothy cites Deloitte research showing generative AI-enabled fraud could cost business
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