Board and C-Suite Leadership
Collection
Explore challenges and areas of interest for boards of directors around the world. From environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters to fulfilling the board’s vital risk oversight mandate, this collection provides practical insights and guidance for new and experienced board members alike.
Featured Insights
Board Risk Oversight in the Age of Disruption
In these disruptive times, how should boards discharge their duty of care and duty of oversight with respect to risk when the models to follow aren’t...
Freedom to Fail: Risk Appetite for Innovation
The manner that failure is embraced instead of feared in a business can improve the way the company evolves and responds to new market opportunities.
Is Your Board Technology-Engaged?
With technology clearly a material driver of change, boards of larger companies are trending toward a more strategic focus on technology. Should your...
Modernising Legacy Infrastructure to Increase Competitiveness: The Board’s Role
The big picture: Innovative culture, speed to market, customer focus and organisational agility are mainstays in boardroom conversations about...
Hot Topics
What Boards Need to Know About the CFO’s Changing Priorities
As board members engage with CFOs, they should keep in mind that CFO priorities increasingly overlap with the company’s top strategic goals and risks....
Take a New Approach to Succession Planning and Leadership Development
Delivering results — and the 60-hour-a-week grind fests that doing so demanded — often sufficed for “leadership development.” Not anymore.What’s at...
The Director’s Playbook for Generative AI
The big picture: So much has been written about generative AI (GenAI), it seems like a constant buzz inspiring both wonder and fear. But the value...
What Role Should Compliance Play in ESG?
By Bernadine Reese and Jackie Sanz
Regulators and many other stakeholders are intently focused on how financial institutions address environmental,...
Technology
SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Enhancements: Efforts to Boost Investor Confidence
On 26 July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments1 to its rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy,...
Podcast | The Rise of Generative AI – with Christine Livingston
ChatGPT is the talk of the town today. But as we all know, generative AI is much more than this one tool. Gen AI represents a new frontier of promise,...
The Metaverse: The Dawn of a New Generation of Capabilities
The big picture: The metaverse has the potential to be a disruptive, expansive and transformative force, even to the point of spawning its own economy...
The Innovation vs. Technical Debt Tug of War
Technology leaders are exploring new ways to drive innovation and maximise the value of IT in a changing world driven by disruption and a need for...
ESG
Podcast | Financial Inclusion and Its Impact – with Alyse Mauro Mason, Tracie Anderson and Shelley Metz-Galloway
In this episode, hosted by Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason, we focus on financial inclusion, defining financial inclusion and its...
ISSB sets new IFRS sustainability disclosure standards: Jurisdictions must act
The ISSB has released the first sustainability disclosure standards. They’re voluntary, but wide adoption is expected among IFRS reporters around the...
Podcast | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger
Data management is a critical component of an organisation’s reporting and required disclosures, whether they are for regulatory authorities or...
Sustainability regulation: ESG disclosures and demand for accountability set the tone for the future
In recent years, increasing pressures from a variety of stakeholders have combined to drive companies toward more sustainable practices in their...
Emerging Risks
Implications of U.S. Banking Regulators’ Final Guidance on TPRM – with Brian Kostek, Kathryn Hardman and Helen Smith
In June, nearly two years after issuing their proposal for third-party risk management (TPRM), the U.S. banking regulators – the Office of the...
Risky Women Podcast | Talent Management and the Nature of Work
Tonya Hummers, Managing Director at Protiviti, speaks with Sarah Olthoff, Senior Vice President and Chief Business Risk Officer at Discover Financial...
What Do the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures Mean for Bank Supervision?
On April 28, four reports were issued on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. These reports signal the next stage of what is likely...
The Top Risks for the Next Decade: A Global Perspective
A global survey conducted online during the September/October time frame by Protiviti and NC State University’s ERM Initiative of 1,304 C-level...
