Still awake at night? What’s troubling boards in 2025: Director Sentiment Survey 2025

Webcast

Speaker(s): Nick Tuffley, Judene Edgar, Guy Beatson
Date: 7:30am — 8:30am, 26 November 2025
Venue: Online
Location: Online
Price members: $0.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $60.00 incl GST

Overview

Join us for the launch of the 2025 Director Sentiment Survey as we explore the latest insights into the strengths, challenges, and evolving concerns of New Zealand’s governance community across a broad range of entities and sectors.

Conducted annually in partnership with the ASB, the Institute of Directors’ flagship survey captures what matters most to directors, offering a high-level view of the economic, business, and governance landscape from the boardroom perspective.

IoD General Manager – Governance Leadership Centre, Guy Beatson CMInstD, will be joined by Nick Tuffley, ASB Chief Economist, and Judene Edgar CMInstD, IoD Principal Governance Advisor, to discuss the most pressing issues facing boards today and the longer-term trends shaping governance practice in Aotearoa.

In this webinar, we’ll unpack findings on:

- Business and economic confidence
- Top issues on directors’ minds in 2025
- Short-term pressures and emerging risks
- Strategic and organisational governance concerns
- Ethics, culture, and conduct in governance
- The evolving role of AI, technology and innovation
- The growing complexity of the director role and future skills needed

This is a must-attend event for directors, executives, and governance professionals seeking to stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly shifting operating environment.

Nick Tuffley

Nick Tuffley was appointed as ASB’s Chief Economist in January 2007, having previously worked at Westpac and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.  Nick studied at Canterbury University, graduating with a Master of Commerce in Economics.     

He and the rest of the Economics team provide regular analysis of economic developments and the outlook through written publications and media comments.  Their key objective is to help the bank’s clients make better-informed business and personal finance decisions.  The Economics team has won 4 Consensus Economics Forecast Accuracy Awards for their NZ forecasts. 

Judene Edgar

CMInstD

Judene is a Principal Governance Adviser with the Institute of Directors’ Governance Leadership Centre and Chapter Zero NZ lead providing research and best practice advice, guidance and advocacy for directors. She is also a trustee of the Rātā Foundation and Network Tasman Trust, and Chair of the Nelson Historic Theatre Trust. 

Prior to joining the IoD she ran her own consultancy for over 20 years specialising in governance, policy, strategy and communications working across a wide range of sectors, including housing, health, solid waste, aviation, energy, not-for-profit and infrastructure. 

She was a local government elected member for 12 years and a director on a range of private and public entity boards. She has a background in behavioural science and communications and is a Chartered Member of the IoD. 

Guy Beatson (facilitator)

CMInstD

Guy is an experienced leader with governance and leadership expertise across public, private, and not-for-profit sectors in New Zealand and internationally. As General Manager of the Governance Leadership Centre and Registrar, he leads the organisation’s research, advocacy, policy agenda, and governance support for directors and boards. 

Guy also serves as Chair of Youthline Wellington, Trustee and Board member of Youthline Auckland, Chair of the Youthline National Helpline National Chairs Forum, and Trustee of Youth Search and Rescue. His previous senior roles include Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy and Organisation Performance at Te Puni Kōkiri, and Deputy Secretary Natural Resources Policy at the Ministry for the Environment.  He has also supported senior executives in a diverse range of consulting assignments.

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