Boardroom Diversity and the Black Corporate Board Readiness Program

(0:00) Intro. (1:25) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel. (2:11) Start of interview.  (2:56) Zain Oke's origin story. (5:08) Dianna Jones's origin story. (8:25) Dennis Lanham's origin story. (12:00) How executive education works (as opposed to degree conferring programs) (14:22) On the origin and mission of the Black Corporate Board Readiness (BCBR) program at Santa Clara University. (17:41) On the role of community and mentorship at BCBR. (22:11) On lawyers serving on corporate boards. (30:50) On the legal challenges to SB-826 and AB-979 in California (board diversity laws). (40:00) On the politicization of the boardroom and the push back on ESG and DEI. (51:23) Recommendations for executives seeking to join their first board, and for boards considering diverse candidates. You can follow Evan on social media at: X: @evanepstein LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/  Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/ __ To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/ __ Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License