Peter Gleason: CEO of NACD on 2024 Board Practices and Oversight Surveys – Trends and Takeaways

(0:00) Intro. (1:23) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel. (2:10) Start of interview. *Reference to prior episode with Peter (E83 from Jan 2023). (3:00) NACD Surveys on Board Practices and Oversight: Private Company Results and Public Company Results. (3:44) 1/ On Technology Oversight: "We are seeing boards go after technology, not necessarily expertise, but experience." (11:16) 2/ On CEO Succession Planning. "Succession is always a challenge at companies, especially with founder CEOs." (14:37) 3/ On Board Leadership Succession Planning. "Governance is more art than science, it depends on the board." (20:26) 4/ On Board Reporting. Reference to paper on Netflix Governance by Larcker and Tayan (2018).  (23:43) NACD's BRC Report on Culture as the Foundation. *Reference to episode with Sonita Lontoh (June 2024). (25:23) NACD's BRC Report on Technology Oversight. *Reference to episode with Nora Denzel (Oct 2022). (32:12) On Cybersecurity concerns for boards and directors. (33:56) On AI concerns for boards and directors. (35:27) On trend of alternative corporate structures used by new AI companies including public benefit corporations. (41:41) On the upcoming NACD Directors Summit Oct 6-9, 2024, in Washington, DC. *My reference to keynoting the 25th IBGC Summit in Brazil. (46:35) On geopolitics and the increasing politicization of the boardroom. Peter Gleason has been the CEO of NACD since 2017. You can follow Evan on social media at: Twitter: @evanepstein LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/  Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/ __ You can join as a Patron of the Boardroom Governance Podcast at: Patreon: patreon.com/BoardroomGovernancePod __ 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