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The KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) champions outstanding corporate governance to drive long-term value and enhance stakeholder confidence. Through an array of insights, perspectives, and programs, the BLC—which includes the KPMG Audit Committee Institute and close collaboration with other leading director organizations—promotes continuous education and improvement of public and private company governance.  BLC engages with directors and business leaders on the critical issues driving board agendas—from strategy, risk, talent, and ESG, to data governance, audit quality, proxy trends, and more.

 

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Five areas of oversight to consider amid economic volatility

Oversight  in this environment requires boards to test the breadth of management’s scenario analyses and consideration of exogenous shocks.

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2022 Spring Directors Roundtable

What workers want
Understanding the new employee/employer dynamic

Virtual and in-person options

Date: June 16, 2022

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The future of work: focusing on the “what” instead of the “where”

Flex+Strategy Group Founder and CEO Cali Yost talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Stephen Brown about how boards are overseeing the challenges of creating a long-term strategy for remote operations and flexible work arragements.

Telling your company’s ESG story

Corporate director and Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation CEO Tanuja Dehne talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Claudia Allen about how boards can help their companies navigate the proliferation of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and take the initiative in telling their ESG story.

Tackling climate change: a primer

Plan C Advisors Founder and CEO Amanda North talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Susan Angele about how boards can help guide their organizations regarding the risks and opportunities presented by climate change, as well as oversight of climate risk disclosure and shareholder engagement on climate.


Chief diversity officers take center stage

Chevron Chief Diversity Officer Lee Jourdan talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Annalisa Barrett about the critical challenges facing chief diversity officers and how the board can help champion their success.

CEO succession in a storm

Corporate director D’Anne Hurd talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Claudia Allen about how boards can create and maintain effective succession plans in the face of uncertainty.

The comp committee’s aperture widens

Farient Advisors Founder and CEO Robin Ferracone talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Annalisa Barrett about how the compensation committee’s agenda is evolving to meet heightened focus on human capital management for a holistic view of pay,


A clean-sheet approach to board effectiveness

Dan Siciliano, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Codex Fellow at Stanford Law School, talks with KPMG Board Leadership Center Senior Advisor Susan Angele about challenging long-standing norms and practices of board operations and effectiveness.

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