Teresa Briggs: Audit Committees, AI, and the Evolving Role of Corporate Directors.

(0:00) Intro (1:26) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel (2:13) Start of interview (2:53) Teresa's origin story (4:30) Her career path at Deloitte (37-year career) (7:40) Transition to Board Service (8:37) Joining the board of ServiceNow (10:57) Joining the board of Warby Parker and understanding Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs) (14:48) Joining the boards of Snowflake and Docusign (15:38) Insights on Audit Committees (*reference to E179 with Jack Lazar) (17:10) Evolving Responsibilities of Audit Committees (21:40) The Climate and ESG Discussion (24:15) Boardroom Diversity Trends (26:13) The Rise of AI in Business (30:18) Navigating Geopolitical Changes (33:36) Handling Crisis Situations (her experience with whistleblower case and special committee with outside counsel investigation) (37:28) Engaging with Activist Investors (38:40) Founder Mentality vs. Governance *Reference to VC-Board Academy (on October 28, 2025 in NYC) (42:10) The Future of Private vs. Public Companies (impact of IPOs) *Mention of CaaStle fraud case. (45:57) The Impact of AI on Human Capital (48:29) Work from Home Dynamics (50:05) Book that has greatly influenced her life: Outlive, by Peter Attia (2022) (50:50) Her mentors. Rich Fineberg (51:51) Quotes that she thinks of often or lives his life by. (52:24) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that she loves. (53:11) The living person she most admires. Teresa Briggs serves on the boards of DocuSign, ServiceNow, Snowflake and Warby Parker. She is a member of the audit committee for each company and is the audit committee chair of ServiceNow, DocuSign, and Warby Parker. 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