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Boards didn’t fail in 2025. They waited.

In 2025, comfort and familiarity slowed action as risks accelerated. Learn why timing, agility, and AI‑powered insight will define governance success in 2026.

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Helle Bank Jorgensen

The QDI Principle in action

How our methodology helped this FTSE 100 drive agility

We helped a global consumer goods company to adopt the QDI Principle, fuelling faster, smarter, and more focused decision making.

“There are three questions every board should ask. Do I really know what is going on? Are we focusing on the right things? And are we asking the right questions?”

~ Executive, Reckitt (FTSE 100)

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Boards didn’t fail in 2025. They waited.

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Christiana Figueres: “We live in a truly exciting moment in the history of our species, with a great capacity to improve the world around us for each other.”

Simon Devonshire on organisational agility: “Right now, the biggest risk for corporates is the risk of being boring.”

Serge Krancenblum on organisational agility: “The key isn’t asking ‘How do I make the right calls?’, it’s ‘How do I give others the right support for them to make the right calls?’”

Orna NiChionna: “Boards remain the ultimate arbiter, but the frequency of their meetings has stopped being what determines how fast decisions can be made.”

Ruth Handcock: “Having the discipline to talk about all stakeholders is not easy, but eventually it becomes second nature.”

Gavin Patterson: “As board information evolves, so will board members.”

Danuta Gray: “One of the biggest changes has been the increased breadth of topics that must be discussed by the board.”

Vindi Banga: “People make or break your organisation, and they should be discussed every time you meet, not once a year.”

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Mark Winlow: “Nobody is nobody. How you interact with people is important.”

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