July 2020
Publication of What Does A 21st Century Board Look like: The Politician’s Role.
- Speech and paper for the UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group for Corporate Governance, now published in Governance Journal
Publication of two essays What Is A Company for Now? and What Is A Board For Now? 1001Questions For Directors, editor Charlotte Valeur, published by Palgrave MacMillan,
Panel Speaker (virtual) at the Opening of the Institute of Directors London Centre for Corporate Governance
Opening Address (virtual) of the First Graduate Awards Ceremony for the Gulf Co-operation Council’s Board Development Institute’s Certification Programme, Dubai
June 2020
Publication of What Are Company Boards For Now? Reframing Wealth, Justice and Power in Corporates. In The Royal Society of Arts’ Covid-19: Building Bridges For the Future series
Opening Address (virtual) of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute’s Annual Conference, Trinidad
March 2020
December 2019
Publication of Commentary of the GCC BDI 2019 Survey of Board Effectiveness across the six Gulf nations
Publication a a chapter – Personal paradoxes In Learning To Design ‘The Learning Organisation’. Chapter 8 in The Oxford Handbook of The Learning Organisation. Ed. Andres Ortenblad. OUP.
November 2019
Future Corporate Governance talk and dinner for the Reunion of the first University College Dublin Directors’ MBA programme, Dublin. With Wil Byrne, Fiona Naughton and Professor Niamh Brennan
Final Presentation of the Board Review of Republic Bank Ltd’s main Board, Holding Board, and eight subsidiary boards in the Caribbean and Ghana
October 2019
Study Tour of Northern Ireland with the TPOT Past Masters’ Association of City Livery Companies
Start of Yorkshire Water plc Senior Executive Mentoring Programme
September 2019
Presentation at Fidelio’s ‘Seat At The Table’ Women’s Programme on The Learning Board, Hever Castle
May 2019
Launch of Republic Bank Board Review (10 interlinked Boards) working Ronaele Dathorne-Bayrd of PwC Barbados/Caribbean and Kofi Boxill of PwC Trinidad
Launch of Royal Thames Yacht Club Strategy Review, London
April 2019
Opening Speaker, Family Businesses Conference, Ashqaria Chamber of Commerce, Saudi Arabia
Opening Speech, Getting Value From Good Governance, GCC Board Development Institute and the Capital Markets Authority, Saudi Arabia
Launch of GCC BDI Director Certification Programme, Saudi Arabia
Bob appointed as External Examiner for the GCC BDI Director Certification Programme.. Dubai
Sally appointed Almoner of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, London
March 2019
Board Development Workshops, Yorkshire Water plc
APPGCG Lunch Panel talk on Board Issues, Parliament, London
February 2019
Board Review of a series of large family Companies, reviewing future board roles and the transfer of control from second to third generation family members
November 2018
Combined Board Review and Organisational Change Workshops, Yorkshire Water plc, Leeds
Private Workshop for Financial Regulators, Trinidad
Director Survey Report from PwC Barbados
GLS Disruption, Boards and Learning paper published
Recent News
August 2018
Four Levels of Board Maturity paper published as a GLS Briefing
July 2018
Board development work with Ibn Zahr plc, Saudi Arabia
June 2018
Publication of Interview in Corporate Governance Australia Journal
(This article was first published in the June 2018 issue of Governance Directions, the official journal of Governance Institute of Australia
May 2018
Barbados: Board development work with Republic Bank, Trinidad
April 2018
Iceland: Keynote Speaker at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik
Interviews with three female Chairmen
February 2018
Board Evaluation and Review with the Oil and Gas Authority regulator in association with Fidelio Partners, London.
2017
Bob ran a workshop on New Approaches to Corporate Governance for the Gulf Co-operation Council and the MBSC Management Centre at the new Economic City, north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This follows his work in Damman in December 2015 with the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Industry that reviewed their approach to Company Law and Corporate Governance, aspects of which are being incorporated in new legislation.
2015/2017
Sally is completing her two years as elected Third Warden of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants where she has been concentrating on the Induction processes for new members and advising on upgrading of their systems. She remains on the WCoMC Membership Committee.
2016
Bob completed his work on the design of a new Board Review process for the Central Bank of Uganda working with Professor Daniel Malan of the University of Stellenbosch.
Bob worked in Johannesburg with Old Mutual Wealth on corporate governance aspects of their 70 new offices being established across Africa to service the growing middle classes.
2015
Bob was a lead speaker at the first African conference on Governance for The World Economic Forum.
An unique assignment was the first full board review and development process of a UK University – the University of Hertfordshire; working with Sally Garratt and Gillian Karran-Cumberlege of Fidelio Partners.
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