Beyond Compliance, Toward Conviction
CBD convened 60+ leaders to release new data and insights, highlighting the shift from board diversity targets to inclusive leadership, stronger governance, and real impact.
Tham Sai Choy: Organisations are set up to build succession in its own likeness
Organisations are set up to build succession in its own likeness. “That’s why board diversity is hard to achieve,” says Tham Sai Choy, independent director and active participant in the development of corporate governance practice.
Leadership-in-Action: Navigating Change, Creating Opportunities
In a world of shifting geopolitics, trade wars, climate risks, new technologies and cyber threats, true leadership means not reacting to change but taking smart risks and shaping the future proactively.
The Climate in the Boardroom – Partner event @ Ecosperity Week 2024
The urgency of climate change, interest in sustainability disclosures, and emerging regulations call for change to be driven from the top. This was the focus of The Climate in the Boardroom, a compact lunchtime forum hosted by the Council for Board Diversity following Day 1 of Ecosperity Week.
Lynette Tan will create a better future through the space economy
In doing so, the Chairwoman & CEO of Space Faculty is equally careful to nurture Earthly corporate concerns. She gives the Council for Board Diversity this wide-ranging interview about the business of space, why you need devil’s advocates on the board, and the one question she wishes people would stop asking her.
Dr Zhou Lihan is bolstering the future of preventive healthcare
On the eve of Mirxes’s listing application with The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, CBD sat down with the biotech’s far-sighted CEO and co-founder Dr Zhou Lihan to find out how cognitive diversity lends to his firm’s advancements in making the early detection of diseases accessible on a global scale.
Growth and profitability must be met with good governance says Tan Yinglan
For any company, much less a startup, the ability to see the bigger picture can only come from having a board and management that are diverse in not just gender and skills, but also age and experience. The founder and managing partner of Insignia Ventures Partners chats with CBD.
Board diversity is more than a number
With Singapore’s business-led, voluntary approach, the intent is to encourage organisations on their journey of board diversity without being too prescriptive. In embracing diversity organically, organisations naturally put more effort into ensuring a culture that values and maximises the contributions of all, as opposed to diversity being a result of unthinking compliance.
Every moment is a teachable moment – learning from diversity
An entrepreneur who built a supermarket chain from scratch, Lim Hock Chee, Chief Executive and a board director of Sheng Siong Group, believes in harnessing the potential of all who works with him.
How organisations can survive in an unpredictable world – even black swans
How does a company navigate a corporate environment as uncertain as the one we’re in today? A well-composed, diverse board is key, insists Chairman of SATS Ltd and Public Service Star recipient, Euleen Goh.