The gateway to chartered governance professional status. When you complete the Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme or a validated postgraduate degree, you become a graduate member of the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland. Achieving graduate member status demonstrates you've got an exceptionally high-level understanding of the many subjects relevant to governance.

In this podcast James Beasley, Senior Director at Nasdaq Governance Solutions, discusses stakeholder capitalism and its significance for businesses today. He argues that stakeholder engagement is the means by which to achieve stakeholder capitalism because it allows the business to understand different stakeholders and therefore act in their interests. James argues that the convergence of many monumental events over the last two years has brought stakeholder capitalism into the limelight and front and centre for boards. He outlines innovative methods for engaging with two important stakeholder groups: customers and employees. James argues that organisations need to develop more sophisticated data points for understanding stakeholders, focusing on qualitive rather than quantitative data to bring stakeholder experiences to life.

Welcome to The Chartered Governance Institute, The Bailiwick of Guernsey branch. We provide support to the Institute's members and students in Guernsey.

Welcome to The Chartered Governance Institute, South West branch. We provide support to the Institute's members and students in the South West. This includes Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, South Wales and Gloucestershire.

Welcome to CGI Uganda, The Chartered Governance Institute - East Africa Region. We provide support to the Institute's members and students in Uganda and the rest of East Africa.

Welcome to The Chartered Governance Institute, Mauritius branch. We provide support to the Institute's members and students in Mauritius and the Seychelles.

In this podcast Daniel Roach, Senior Technical Lead at Company Matters, discusses the latest developments in ESG reporting.

In this podcast, Sharon Constançon, CEO of Genius Boards, describes company secretaries and governance professionals as wise owls in the boardroom who use their influencing skills to defuse tension and allow conversations to remain logical and constructive. Sharon highlights the power of the innocent question to cut through tension and explains how to negotiate successfully with warring parties to regain harmony. She argues that having a wise owl on the nominations committee can help achieve a more balanced board that is fit to address the modern agenda. Sharon also explains how to recognise and address bias in the boardroom and how doing so can help address infighting and groupthink.

In this podcast Susan Stenson, a partner at Independent Audit, discusses the impact that environment, social and governance (ESG) issues are having in the boardroom. She outlines the importance of linking these areas back to the overall purpose and strategy of the organisation to enable directors to understand which issues they should focus on and how they should communicate their approach to their stakeholders. Susan outlines how governance lays the foundations for a strong response to ESG issues from boards of directors. She also argues that if the board is honest about how it has decided its ESG priorities, its approach is much more likely to be successful.