Governance Reform Is Coming for Every Sector — Not Just Yours
Why Sector-Siloed Thinking Is the Riskiest Assumption a Board Can Make By Mark Fenton, Principal Consultant, Governance Bureau | 8 September 2026 I hear a version of the same sentence in almost every sector I work in, just with the names changed. Commercial directors tell me governance scrutiny is really a not-for-profit problem, born out […]
Governance as a Finance Discipline
Ask a board member to describe their organisation’s risk appetite, and most will give you a confident, considered answer. Ask them to point to where that risk appetite actually shows up — in a board pack, a committee decision, a line of minutes — and the confidence tends to thin out. That gap is the […]
Why I Don’t Trust a Board That’s Never Disagreed With Its CEO
GOVERNANCE INSIGHTS Healthy Tension Is a Feature of Good Governance, Not a Failure of It By Mark Fenton, Principal Consultant, Governance Bureau | 13 August 2026 I’ve sat on a lot of boards over the past twenty-three years, in a lot of different rooms. And if there’s one thing I’ve come to genuinely believe, it’s […]
The Changing Face of Board Leadership
GOVERNANCE INSIGHTS Why the Job Has Quietly Become Much Bigger By Mark Fenton, Principal Consultant, Governance Bureau | 4 August 2026 A decade ago, being a good board director largely meant showing up prepared, understanding the organisation’s purpose, and exercising sound judgement a handful of times a year. That version of the role still exists […]