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IMHO: How ESG initiatives impact the value of your business

Identify the intangible assets that secure your ESG credentials.

• ESG
• Intangible assets

Te Huarahi Hōu: The new pathway

Critical elements of Māori governance.

• Te Ao Māori

IMHO: Your personal board of directors

If you don’t have a mentor and think you can benefit from one, go seek one out.

• Board evaluation
• Diversity

Covid-19 five years from now

The virus will still plague us and its impact will reverberate far beyond health concerns in 2027.

• Covid-19
• Long-termism

Not for profit governance series: Fundraising essentials for board members

Sarah Barrer discusses fundraising in the not-for-profit sector.

• Not for profits

Not for profit governance series: Courageous leadership

Steph Dyhrberg discusses what a safe and respectful culture looks like. 

• Not for profits
• Organisational culture

Not-for-profit governance series: Responsibility & privilege of board leadership

Tools and resources boards need to be effective champions for their organisations.

• Not for profits

The chair’s role in culture and conduct

A good chair holds themselves and others on the board and executive to account.

• CEOs
• Chairing
• ESG

Erasing the Problem - Pollution, Plastics and Polystyrene

Globally, the management of recycling and the re-use of materials has been an overwhelming issue.

• Climate change

An opportunity for impact

Recommendations for regulating modern slavery in supply chains in Aotearoa New Zealand.

• Director duties
• ESG
• Trade

Cyber security advice for boards in the era of hybrid working

Businesses should factor in cyber security risks when laying out a hybrid working policy.

• Covid-19
• Cyber security

Not-for-profit governance series: Chair observations

Webcast explores the wider context and expectations on boards, to be more aware of the cyber context for their organisations.

• Chairing
• Not for profits

Not-for-profit governance series: A new world

NFPs of tomorrow will need to be solutions' focussed.

• Future of work
• Not for profits

No repeating the cycle

New Zealand is not immune to the environmental and social impacts created by the fashion industry.

• ESG

The new tax reporting requirements for trusts in New Zealand may have unintended...

IRD has finalised the new reporting requirements for domestic trusts in NZ.

Pay gap reporting could net larger wages for low paid

Employees could get a pay hike of  $1700 a year if businesses start reporting their pay gaps.

• Diversity
• Reporting frameworks

When, not if – Cyber security preparedness and resilience

Aura and the National Cyber Security Centre  discuss the ever changing landscape of cyber threats.

• Cyber security
• Risk oversight

Now is the time...

for workplaces to aim for a better and more thriving future, for all of us.

• Health and safety
• Organisational culture

IMHO: It's time for better dashboards

At their worst dashboards can mislead boards into making poor choices. 

• Data
• Reporting frameworks

Musk’s Twitter takeover

A director’s first duty is to act in the best interests of the company, not its shareholders.

• Director duties
• Liability

Unprecedented increase in women on US boards

But still a long road to gender parity.

• Board composition
• Diversity

IMHO: You don’t need a digital strategy

A company’s vision of where it wants to go should be technology agnostic.

• Purpose

The mentoring experience

"Gender, ethnicity, people or experience. The end result is, it is important to get diversity around the board table”.

• Diversity

Mentor to mentee

Amit Prasad and Mark Tume discuss the value of the Mentoring for Diversity programme. 

• Diversity

A storm brewing on climate change litigation

What the Smith v Fonterra appeal could signal for future climate litigation.

• Climate change
• Court decisions
• Director duties

IMHO: Will DAOs disrupt governance in New Zealand?

Australia has moved to legalise DAO company structure.

• Board composition
• Innovation

The Technical Series: Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association of NZ (R...

John Fisk, Chair of RITANZ presents to IoD on technical restructuring subjects.

• Governance failures
• Liability
• Solvency

A new age of incorporated societies

Changes to the law for incorporated societies and their governance are (almost) here.

• Conflicts of interest
• Director duties
• Not for profits

Do great minds think alike?

Great minds think alike. But sometimes too much similarity can lead to limited solutions.

• Diversity

The Technical Series: NZX

Update on relevant policy initiatives being undertaken by NZX in 2022, including the current review of the NZX Corporate Governance Code.

• Financial reporting
• NZX
• Reporting frameworks

The Technical Series: Office of the Auditor General (OAG)

The key challenges and opportunities for public sector entities to improve how they report on their performance.

• Auditing
• Public sector
• Reporting frameworks

The Technical Series: Takeovers Panel

Overview of rules for takeovers under the Takeovers Code and the Companies Act.

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Shareholders

Transparent governance: The opportunity for pay gap reporting

Hear from boards that have chosen to publicly report their gaps. 

• Diversity
• Reporting frameworks

IQ vs EQ in the boardroom

Two IoD members debate the value of intelligence and emotion, and how to find a balance.

• Board composition
• Diversity

It’s not about raising the numbers

Two IoD members share their perspectives on diversity and ethnicity in the boardroom.

• Diversity

Home in Cyprus

Andreas Kazamias MInstD was planning to bring his family back to New Zealand before covid-19 closed borders.

• Covid-19

Disrupting ourselves: climate action and opportunity

Minister of Climate Change James Shaw believes this existential issue represents both risk and huge potential for businesses in New Zealand.

• Climate change

Translating the unsaid

Craig Pettigrew can speak Japanese but says the secret is reading body language, nuance and helping in "lost in translation" situations.

• Covid-19
• Trade

The key to keeping cyber talent

Amid the waves of covid-19 and talent shortages, cyber governance can provide the steer.

• Cyber security
• Talent

Power to change

What does New Zealand’s energy future look like?

• Climate change