64. Baroness Dambisa Moyo - Boardroom surprises: black swans, dual-track strategising and marketing yourself as an unconventional board member
Description
Baroness Dambisa Moyo is a current board member of Chevron and Conde Nast, investment committee member of the Oxford University Endowment, and co-principal of Versaca Investments. Join her and Nurole CEO Oliver Cummings in a conversation which covers: Which of your boardroom experiences have been the most challenging? (1:44 ) How do the best boards deal with uncertainty and risk? (4:31 ): How do you think about the Risk Committee? (12:43 ) What do you know now which you wish you’d known when you first entered the boardroom? (14:32 ) How aligned are board members on the role of the board? (16:28 ) What have you learnt about adding value across strategy, CEO succession and culture, which might not be intuitive to an experienced executive? (20:02 ) How can people from non-conventional backgrounds best position themselves for board roles? (22:06 ) Should boards have strategy and audit sub-committees? (24:57 ) What is your dual-tracked approach to strategy? (29:35 ) You once had four CEOs in six years - what did you learn? (34:13 ) What is the remit of ethics committees? (36:48 ) And ⚡The Lightning Round ⚡ (40:43 )
Show notes and transcript available at https://www.nurole.com/news-and-guides