All Episodes

Revealing "The Hidden World of Boardrooms"

BONUS: Five electrifying year-end governance questions

BONUS: Introducing Policy Crimes

BONUS: Board evaluations don't work...but they could!

S3E4 - You can design good governance on your own

S3E3 - Are Family Businesses Natural Design Thinkers?

S3E2 - Designing effective governance conditions

S3E1 - Are design and good governance the same thing?

S2E10: Is there really a clear line between board and management? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E9 - Useful AI considerations for boards (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E8 - How do you know if you're being useful to management? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E7 - Why don't we break into groups during board meetings? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E6 - An easy shortcut to avoiding director liability? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E5 - Considering the interests of every stakeholder in 15 minutes (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E4 - Empowering Directors to be Great (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E3 - Asking questions isn't enough (feat. Andrew Escobar)

S2E2 - Andrew Escobar on what good governance looks like on a normal day

S2E1 - Andrew Escobar on defining good governance

BONUS PODCAST: Good governance is basically about feelings (long story alert!)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.45) - The next generation of governance experts (feat. Reanna Dorscher & Ciara Wakita)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.44) - The early days of ESG for institutional investors (feat. Eric Wetlaufer)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.43) - Even "mainstream" directors can be fun...and they can be quitters, too (feat. Eric Wetlaufer)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.42) - Executive compensation is probably broken (feat. Matt talking to himself)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.41) - Why inclusion is *the* leadership superpower (feat. Rose Genele)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.40) - Governance advice for entrepreneurs from someone who's been through it (feat. Soodeh Farokhi)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.39) - Giving business leaders the permission to be rebels (feat. Lisa Oldridge)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.38) - Could auditors be governance superheroes? (feat. Professor Aida Sijamic Wahid)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.37) - SnoopGPT on staying out of "the weeds" and the connection between governance and performance (feat. ChatGPT)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.36) - Getting oriented around the state of ESG and AI and stuff (feat. Matt talking to himself)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.35) - Going from status quo to good governance (feat. Andrew Escobar)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.34) - Is a board's role really about oversight? (feat. Andrew Escobar)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.33) - Abandoning the search for a causal relationship between governance and performance (feat. Jenn Fong)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.32) - Governance in arts organizations can be weird...and fun! (feat. Karim Morgan)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.31) - Is empathy a non-negotiable board skill? (Nate Schmold interviewing Matt Fullbrook)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.29) - Discipline, joy, deadlifts, and good governance (feat. Alexander Sinora & Perry Chuinkam)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.28) - Welcoming young directors into complex organizations (feat. Chih-Ting Lo)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.27) - The role of mining in reaching net-zero (feat. Chih-Ting Lo)

Dumpling Gang (ep.2) - Exploring a critical governance question, among friends

Sound-Up Governance (ep.26) - Re-thinking the board deck, with a dose of madness (feat. Robert Wolfe)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.25) - Prosperity, opportunity and community for Black Canadians...and everyone else, too (feat. Alexander Sinora & Perry Chuinkam)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.24) The real genius behind Ground-Up Governance (feat. Nate Schmold)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.23) - The superpower of being a generalist in the boardroom (feat. Nancy Whipp)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.22) - The origins of Canadian governance education (feat. Beverly Topping)

Sound-Up Governance (ep.21) - The thrill, joy, trauma, and complexity of entrepreneurship with friends (feat. Sander Trestain)

Sound-Up Governance (ep20) - What *should* we be teaching directors? (feat. Paul Smith)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep 19) - Do we need to reform governance education? (feat. Paul Smith)

Sound-Up Governance (ep18) - An Australian and a Canadian walk into a bar... (feat. Paul Smith)

Sound-Up Governance (ep17) - Kev Cowan and Matt Fullbrook are the biggest governance nerds (also some jamming)

Sound-Up Governance (ep16) - Matt reacting to his own governance resources

Sound-Up Governance (ep15) - Year-end wrap-up: Hidden treasures from the first four months

Sound-Up Governance (ep14) - Even the regulators think corporate governance is about people (feat. Kevan Cowan)

Sound-Up Governance (ep13) - Reacting to real-world governance resources

Sound-Up Governance (ep12) - Does this AI understand corporate governance better than me? (feat. chatGPT)

Sound-Up Governance (ep11) - Effective governance in deeply complex organizations (feat. Judith Athaide)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep10) - Music, neurodiversity, and good governance (feat. Sara Harrup)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep9) - Is governance broken? (feat. Robin Cardozo)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep8) - Quirks in the governance of not-for-profit organizations (feat. Robin Cardozo)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep7) - Navigating divergent definitions of "corporate governance"

Dumpling Gang (Ep1) - What ingredient are you in the organizational sandwich?

Sound-Up Governance (Ep6) - Have I got corporate governance all wrong? feat. Wanda Lopuch

Sound-Up Governance (ep5) - The journey of a young corporate director, featuring Andrew Escobar

Sound-Up Governance (Ep4) - How can we get the "people stuff" right? Featuring Nick Chambers

Sound-Up Governance (Ep3) - Companies and Businesses with Performance Strategist Lisa Oldridge (interview)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep2) - Accountability and Duty with Lt. Col. Jamahl Evans (interview)

Sound-Up Governance (Ep1) - Power and Authority with Professor Tiziana Casciaro (interview)