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How does ESG integration impact business Branding strategy?
Monday, March 14, 2022 • Duration 50:52
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Rosa Zeegers, Partner of Newport LLC, a Marketing & Branding Strategist and Transformational Global Business Executive. Rosa had successfully led global Fortune 500 brands and businesses in various industries, ranging from Consumer Goods (Unilever), to Airlines (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), Toys & Entertainment (Mattel), Retail (Justice) and Publishing, Events & Entertainment (National Geographic), to new growth levels.
Their conversation of this episode is about Branding Strategy and how some world-class companies transform ESG integration into business branding opportunities…
Conversation Topics with timestamps:
Consumer / Create needs for consumer / making money out of it
Transaction ready consulting roles with family business focus (12:00)
Corporate Branding vs. Consumer Branding (15:00)
Rosa’s 4-step Branding strategy Recipe (20:00)
Is ESG integration a motivation for companies to modify their Branding strategy? How? (26:00)
Are companies make ESG integration for reputation risk mitigation? Or new business opportunities? (31:00)
How will the young generations influence business Branding strategy? (35:00)
How do companies translate ESG implementation to a successful Branding strategy? (40:00)
How do digital technologies empower corporate boards and board directors?
Thursday, December 9, 2021 • Duration 54:36
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Dr. Fabio Oliveira. Dr. Oliveira has more than 14 years as an academic. He teaches management, digital technologies, marketing, digital transformation, and business strategy for MBA and Master students in Business School Sao Paulo, Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, University of Hertfordshire, University of Ulster, London Metropolitan University, University of Solent and Henley Business School. Dr. Oliveira is a certified instructor of Artificial Intelligence of the Huawei ICT Academy at Henley Business School. He is the author of academic papers and a contributor to book chapters.
Their conversation of this episode is about Dr. Oliveira’s opinions on the impact of digital transformation to boardroom and board members, based on his research findings.
Conversation Topics with timestamps:
Fabio’s experience teaching at Huawei ICT Academy at Reading University (6:00)
The most notable changes in the boardroom (corporate governance mechanism) due to digital technology transformation accelerated by the pandemic? (9:00)
The top opportunities digital technology brought to corporate board and the board directors? How board directors can embrace these opportunities? (18:00)
The top challenges for board directors to make the digital transformation? Any good roadmap, or good practice from Fabio’s research interview? (24:00)
The Newly Launched Corporate Governance Code in Lesotho
Sunday, October 31, 2021 • Duration 47:18
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Advocate (Adv.) Selebalo Ntepe, the Deputy Chairman of the Institute of Directors Lesotho.
Advocate (Adv.) Selebalo Ntepe was part of a team of Corporate Governance practitioners which developed Lesotho’s first governance code, the Mohlomi Corporate Governance Code. He was entrusted to present the highlights of code during its international launch in August 2021.
Their conversation of this episode covers topics regarding Lesotho’s economy, culture, corporate governance landscape, the role of Lesotho’s culture in its first set of corporate governance code, and how the corporate governance code will impact different stakeholders, and the tops places to go in Lesotho……
Conversation Highlights
Brief overview about Lesotho’s economy (5:40)
Lesotho’s main business relationships with multinational companies from the west and from China (9:00)
Top governance challenges in local government organizations, which might be overcome with the guidance from the newly launched Corporate Governance Code? (12:40)
What is the role of Lesotho’s culture in the development of Lesotho corporate governance code with the corporate governance challenges of multinational companies and local SOEs (17:40)
How Can Individuals’ Risk Personalities Affect Global Risk Management and ESG Adoption? | Michele Wucker’s New Book: YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK
Monday, July 12, 2021 • Duration 49:11
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Michele Wucker, famous author and policy analyst. Michele’s newly published book, You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World is a must-read book to understand the connections between individuals’ risk profile and global risk management.
Introduction and Overview
• Focuses on risk (3:09)
• Brings many facets together so non-specialists can access information and knowledge (3:45)
Inspiration and Motivation for New Book
• How the feedback of The Gray Rhino book tour inspired the idea of this new book (5:59)
• How can the new book help readers understand their risk personalities (8:44)
Risk Fingerprint Concept and its Application to Individuals and Organizations
• How do various factors affect the company’s risk profiles (11:37)
• How do leaders’ personal risk fingerprint affect companies’ risks profile (12:47)
• How countries’ risk cultures influence risk management decisions (14:07)
Risk Appetite and Risk Attitude
• Chinese characters of Crisis - “Wei” “Ji” (18:40)
• How someone perceives the risk influences risk tolerance and risk appetite (20:25)
• How training and education can change risk appetite and risk attitude (23:10)
Global Risk Management and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Movement
• Challenges for global ESG movement (28:37)
Chinese Multinationals’ Roles in the Worldwide ESG Revolution | A Conversation with Professor Lourdes Casanova
Sunday, June 13, 2021 • Duration 40:21
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Professor Lourdes Casanova, the senior lecturer of management and director of Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University. She has been devoting her research in emerging markets multinational companies for many years with numerous publications and books regarding multinational companies.
Introduction and Overview
- Lourdes focuses her research on emerging multinationals (2:10)
Emerging Multinationals vs Multinational Companies from Advanced Countries
- Emerging Multinationals
• Younger companies (5:16)
• Companies born in an unstable and volatile environment (5:28)
• Go global to avoid intrinsic risk of home environment (5:54)
- Chinese Multinationals (6:11)
• More stable environment (6:17)
• Support of the government (6:24)
• Large internal market to build support for company (6:31)
Role of Government in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) (7:45)
- Importance of innovation (8:36)
- Benefit from:
• Growth of their own economy (11:18)
• Size of their domestic economy (12:02)
• Support of the government (12:06)
• Early adopters of technology (12:23)
- Covid-19 crisis vs. 2008 financial crisis impacts to Chinese Companie (13:47)
Governance’s 21-Years Journey | A Conversation with Lesley Stephenson
Thursday, May 27, 2021 • Duration 30:58
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Lesley Stephenson, Publisher and Owner of Governance Magazine. They discuss the 21 year journey of this global publication.
Introduction and Overview:
- Worked on publishing the first corporate governance code – Cadbury Report on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (2:15)
- Published Greenbury Report on director remuneration and the Hampel Report which reviewed the original Cadbury Code (2:31)
- Publisher of Financial Times Board Director Programme – provides training, development and networking for board directors in their role as director (3:22)
Governance Magazine:
- Governance magazine has actually been going since November 1997 – 23 years (4:32)
- Covers any issue of relevance to boards and investors (5:04)
- Occasionally looks at important developments outside the corporate sector but mainly corporate (5:42)
- Readership (6:24)
• Chairs/CEOs/CO Secs in large listed companies worldwide • Institutional investors • Advisors • Business schools • Governance professionals
- Main readership is in the UK (50%) and the USA (10%). The audience is truly global, with subscribers in 40 different countries (6:38)
Corporate Governance Over 20 Years Ago:
- Generally boards more resistant, not so well accepted (8:04)
- Heavy emphasis on running companies for benefit of shareholders – this has broadened out to include all stakeholders (9:26)
The Surge by Lyndsey Zhang | An Overview of China's Rapidly Evolving Corporate Governance and Coming ESG Revolution - English Version
Sunday, May 2, 2021 • Duration 32:16
In this episode, Lyndsey Zhang, shares with us her newly released book, The Surge – An Overview of China’s Rapidly Evolving Corporate Governance and Coming ESG Revolution!
Starting May 3rd, 2021, you can receive a 40% discount on the purchase of the Kindle version of the book on Amazon for a limited time.
Episode Highlights (with timestamps)
• Inspiration behind the writing of “The Surge” (2:14)
- Education background and experience working in both US and Chinese companies
•Titling the book "The Surge" (5:10)
•Who will be interested in this book (9:25)
- Global investors who are investing in China companies and interested in learning how to evaluate China companies’ CG risks (11:07)
- Corporate chairpersons, board directors and executives from multinational companies with connections in China (11:30)
- CG, ESG, law, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), management & strategy experts from international consulting firms (12:13)
- Business school professors and Master-level students in business, law, accounting, auditing, corporate secretary or similar programs (12:48)
- And anyone who’s interested in understanding Chinese companies CG models and China’s rapidly evolving ESG movement (13:23)
• Importance of understanding China’s corporate governance (14:00)
- Rapid evolution of Chinese companies
- Industry leaders (15:26)
- Regulation system (17:12)
- Investing (19:13)
What Could Make Impact Investment More Effective? | A Conversation with Dr. Kwan Kew Lai from Harvard Medical School
Sunday, April 18, 2021 • Duration 56:07
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Dr. Kwan Kew Lai, a Harvard Medical faculty physician, with a specialty in infectious diseases. She is a disaster relief medical volunteer who has volunteered her medical services all over the world.
The conversation of this episode focuses on the insights Dr. Lai will give us detailing the impact investment projects in Africa from a doctor’s experience.
Introduction and Overview:
- Dr. Lai’s “why” behind the volunteer work she does and why she chose Africa to concentrate her volunteer efforts (6:12)
- What Dr. Lai first thoughts were when she first visited Africa and saw first hand the hardships that her patients were facing (11:52)
- What encouraged Dr. Lai to risk her own safety to help others (15:39)
- What are the top challenges for volunteer doctors working in these countries: (20:31)
- Infrastructure (20:48)
- Lack of healthcare personnel (21:39)
Malawi:
- Dr. Lai’s mission in Malawi. Her experience with being selected for the program (23:09)
- Obstacles for her Malawi mission:
- Infrastructure concerns (27:25)
- Privacy concerns (30:13)
- Involvement of NGO’s and the local government (31:46)
- How the turnover of medical staff affects the program (33:07)
- Measurements involved in the Malawi program (35:00)
Board Leadership - The Emerging Challenges for Corporate Boards and Board Chairs | A conversation with Professor Andrew Kakabadse
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 • Duration 01:01:30
In this episode, Lyndsey talks with Professor Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of Governance and Strategic Leadership at Henley Business School in the UK, Emeritus Professor of International Management Development at Cranfield University’s School of Management.
Their conversation of this episode covers various hot topics regarding the Emerging Challenges for Corporate Boards and Board Chairs.
Conversation Highlights (with timestamps)
Different interest groups represented by board members o Board is not a team, and should not work like a team (5:40) o Definition of Independence (6:00) o Various combination of interests in boardroom and the demand of un-comfortable decision-making capability of boards (7:10) o Why really matters? (8:40)
Mis-alignments in boardroom o We need to respect mis-alignments. (9:20) o Top mis-alignments Competitive advantage and differentiation (10:10) The sense of sensitive issues and speaking up (12:20) o Board Chair’s role in facilitate board culture (14:00)
How does the Chairman facilitate in the boardroom? o Lack of knowledge vs. lack of culture (15:30) o What is governance? (16:00) o The balance of Compliance vs. Stewardship (16:40) o Time to rethink the function of board (18:30)
Line between board stewardship and management o Sharp lines between Board Chair and CEO (21:00) o Case study – best practice of collaboration between Board Chair and CEO (22:30) o There’s never a clean line – it’s the collaboration between Chair and CEO (24:00)
How to recognize early risk sign identification? o Good board can sense uncomfortable situation 65 months ahead of time (26:00) o History of the origin of Board and Chair (28:00) o 30-year performance related Hero CEO period (30:00) o Back to the original role of board chair (31:00)
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The evolving of board stewardship and management roles in the future – how to draw the line between board and management? (30:00)
With the influence in boardroom from younger generation investors and board directors who are tech savvy, what kind of further impact from digital technology to board governance? (36:00)
How does the board of director of the biggest milling company looks like? Board committees, board functions, board members, professionalism, etc.? What are the strength and weakness of this company’s board? (23:00)
The trend of corporate governance practice development for business in Lesotho in the next 5-10 years, which the new CG code (29:00)
Advices for Chinese multinational companies’ African operation to improve their corporate governance and business practice (37:00)
- Future of the Malawi region healthcare system (41:19)
- Lack of commitment by the government to support the program (41:37)
- What incentives could be offered to reduce the turnover of medical staff (43:59)
- Challenges to overcome to make future programs successful (44:45)
- Reducing turnover of staff and retaining new talent (44:45)
- How changes in the year end evaluation could improve the program (45:31)
Guest Contact Information:
Dr. Kwan Kew Lai
New book: "Into Africa Out of Academia: A Doctor's Memoir"
Book debut: "Lest We Forget: A Doctor's Experience with Life and Death During the Ebola Outbreak"
kwankew@gmail.com
www.kwankewlai.com
New challenges for board Chair in the post COVID-19 Era o Technology and efficiency challenges (32:30) o Culture urgency accelerated by COVID-19 (34:30) o Remuneration and nomination issues in Corporate board (36:20) o Board chair can facilitate to address corporate culture and motivation to increase organization efficiency (38:00)
What characteristics made good Board Chair? o How Chair and CEO develop themselves? (39:30) o One item missing on the risk register (40:30) o Core skills for Board Chair - Forensic capacity of scrutiny (41:08)
Andrew’s most recent book: Leadership Intelligence: 5Qs For Thriving as A Leader o 5Qs For Thriving as A Leader (42:00) o The most important Q our of 5Qs - IQ in Action (43:10) o Important of RQ (Resilience Intelligence) (44:00) o Disappointment from the research is MQ (Moral Intelligence) (45:30) o IQ, PQ, RQ emerged (46:10)
Closing remark – The ability to self-assessment of leadership value contribution: o Re-evaluation value contribution periodically (48:00) o The same value assessment applies to the entire board and management team (48:40) o The demand to address value contributions questions due to demand from shareholders and community (50:00)
