The Future Boardroom: How to transform in turbulent times
Helle Bank Jorgensen (Barlow Publishing, 2025)
At a time when many corporate leaders are turning away from progressive environmental and social policies, does this mean that the drive for corporate sustainability has crashed and burned? No.
Corporations still face urgent demands from regulators, politicians, customers, and other stakeholders to clean up their environmental behaviour and treat people fairly. This gives board members the complicated task of steering organizations that are facing conflicting demands from many quarters.
This Amazon bestselling book, with insights from some of the world’s top executives and board leaders, shows how boards should operate to deal with these unprecedented challenges, and how they can work better.
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A significant rethink of what is required of boards and board members to effectively execute their oversight mandate.
Ronald O' Hanley, Chair & CEO, State Street
Collective Intelligence: How to build a business that’s smarter than you
Jennifer Sundberg & Pippa Begg (LID Publishing, 2023)
Enduringly successful companies don’t rely on a genius CEO. They build collective intelligence, systematically empowering everyone to use their brains and apply them to the things that matter most.
The iPhone wasn’t the brainchild of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet didn’t want to bet on Apple, and Amazon Prime wasn’t Jeff Bezos’ idea. Each of these breakthroughs was sparked by an employee who’d been given the tools, skills and confidence to ask the right questions.
Every company has a vast reservoir of brainpower and it’s your role as a leader to tap into it. In the book we’ll show you how.
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An essential guide to help leaders tap their organisation’s full potential.
Daniel H Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Stewards of the Future: A guide for competent boards
Helle Bank Jorgensen (Barlow Publishing, 2021) With insights from over one hundred world-class board members, executives and experts, this book provides board members and executives with a practical guide on what is required today to develop thriving, future-fit organizations. Today's boards must contend with a wide range of stakeholders who can affect a company's fortunes — customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, politicians, activists, and social media influencers, among others.
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I wish I had read this book many years ago. Not many have the insight and foresight of Helle Bank Jorgensen to see the risks and opportunities of the future that will help you ask the right questions.
Chad Holliday, former Chair, Royal Dutch Shell and Bank of America
Gender and Corporate Boards: The route to a seat at the table
Dr Scarlett Brown & Elisabeth Kelan (Routledge, 2020) The lack of women on boards has galvanised much public and policy interest, which has led to many countries introducing quotas for women on boards, or to concerted voluntary action. However the way that directors are appointed remains opaque and prone to the influence of gender.
Using a social constructionist understanding of gender and a discourse analysis, Gender and Corporate Boards explores the board appointment process through the experiences of women and men seeking non-executive board roles.