Boardroom Confidential
Boardroom Confidential
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Boardroom Confidential reveals what really happens when the boardroom doors close and the stakes are high. Join journalist and board member Emily Sheffield as she takes a senior business figure through three big agenda items: the boardroom pressure that tests every leader, the lessons learned around the table, and the dynamics that can make or break organisations. Discover the stories leaders usually only share with their peers. Brought to you by Sherpany, the meeting management solution for board and executive teams.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as boardroom pressures, leadership lessons, and organizational dynamics, with episodes discussing topics like board resignations, risk management, and the importance of board composition. Specific examples include an in-depth discussion with Sir John Tusa about crisis management at the English National Opera.
Boardroom Confidential reveals what really happens when the boardroom doors close and the stakes are high. Join journalist and board member Emily Sheffield as she takes a senior business figure through three big agenda items: the boardroom pressure that tests every leader, the lessons learned around the table, and the dynamics that can make or break organisations. Discover the stories leaders usually only share with their peers. Brought to you by Sherpany, the meeting management solution for board and executive teams.
“All boardrooms have people of different neurotypes. We are everywhere, and once we can properly acknowledge that, we can consider the broader human variety that human beings beautifully are.”
This week’s guest on the Boardroom Confidential podcast, powered by Sherpany, is Professor Charlotte Valeur, founder of the Institute of Neurodiversity and former chair of the Institute of Directors.
Charlotte shares the boardroom stories that have shaped her career, including becoming the first high-profile UK businessperson to publicly disclose an autism diagnosis, her refusal to play by unwritten boardroom social rules, and why she believes disagreement, not consensus, is where boards actually learn.
She also discusses why, in a world with AI, neurodivergent thinking may become a board’s most valuable asset. And sets out the risks raised by the recent US restrictions on foreign access to some AI models.
Charlotte began her career as an investment banker in Copenhagen and London before becoming a non-executive director and chair across a range of boards. She is the author of “Effective Directors: The Right Questions to Ask“, a corporate governance consultant, and visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde.
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:25) Disclosing Diagnosis
(07:04) Neurodiversity in AI Era
(10:15) Transparency and Leadership
(15:01) Better Board Meetings
(23:54) When to Walk Away
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