Governance – in its broadest sense – turned out to be a remarkably transferrable skill for Sarah Cox, whose switch into financial services meant trying something very different… and a little bit the same.

With threats multiplying and black-hat hackers equipped with an increasingly diverse armoury, it's worth reviewing where the board should be on cybersecurity.

Business ethics seem to be under attack in the face of short-term financial and political pressures. Winning the long game demands boards hold the line on ethical decision-making

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No, Napoleon didn’t ask for “lucky generals”. (It was probably Mazarin.) But it seems a lot of CEOs lucked into their leadership roles. Maybe we should embrace that fact.

Our professional pride – and integrity – can be sustained though a positive approach to lifelong learning.

The raft of new rules and realities at the start of 2025 reminds us that good governance should serve the people – whether that’s company secretaries or society at large.

The latest survey of AIM boardroom diversity has delivered mixed findings; more than a third of companies on the junior exchange still have all-male boards. It’s time to redouble our efforts.

In our research of 50 FTSE companies, we realised you cannot understand board composition in its fuller meaning without an analysis of information from multiple disparate components. We present our findings – and a suggested solution on how to transform the board’s approach to composition through explicit design that responds to specific circumstances.