In today’s rapidly shifting business landscape, boards are simultaneously learning to navigate through unprecedented complexities while facing expectations to deliver sound advice for sustainable growth. Boards are under a range of intense pressures (Figure 1), including understanding cybersecurity and data privacy implications (66% of board directors identify this as a top three operational risk concern), steering through political and regulatory risk (44%), and overseeing organizational change (38%). As their behaviors, decisions, and actions impact key aspects of the organization, the need for boards to deliver meaningful results is more urgent than ever.
The full article, co-written with Rusty O’Kelley, Rich Fields, Laura Sanderson, Gretchen Anderson, and Joy Tan, was published by The Corporate Governance Advisor in July/August 2025, Volume 33, Number 4.