Launched this month, The Future Boardroom is a pivotal new release that challenges the idea that corporate sustainability is dead - and offers board members a timely roadmap for navigating today’s conflicting demands.
With so many corporate leaders turning away from progressive environmental and social policies, is it fair to say that the drive for corporate sustainability has crashed and burned?
Helle Bank Jorgensen - who advises corporate boards around the world on how to deal with turbulent times - says the answer is a resounding No. Corporations still face urgent demands from regulators, politicians, customers, and other stakeholders to clean up their environmental behaviour and treat people fairly.
This gives board members the complicated task of steering organisations that are facing conflicting demands from many quarters.
This new release, with insights from some of the world's top executives and board leaders, shows how boards should operate to deal with these unprecedented challenges, and how they can work better.
"Companies must be profitable. But it matters even more whether their profits come at the expense of society or contribute to its wider health. In this important book, Helle Bank Jorgensen explains why the latter is even more important in today's turbulent times and how boards can and must ensure success." - Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times
"The Future Boardroom is not just a roadmap for corporate governance - it's a manifesto for reimagining leadership and transformation in an era of existential risks. The book stands out because it is deeply human. Helle Bank Jorgensen doesn't just discuss sustainability or stakeholder capitalism as trendy ideas. Instead, she shows that focus on profit, purpose and outcomes can work together, breaking the myth that they're somehow incompatible. She argues convincingly that directors, as company stewards, are responsible to leave the society in which they operate in a better state. With her trademark Competent Boards ten questions at the end of each chapter and the very practical Call to Action in the last chapter, this is an essential reference manual for experienced, new and budding company directors across our creaking planet." - Garry Willinge, non-executive director, Manulife International
Helle Bank Jorgensen, the CEO and founder of Competent Boards, is an internationally recognised voice on sustainable governance practices; a business lawyer and certified public accountant by training, Helle is a member of the Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence, World Economic Forum Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals, and the co-chair of the global expert panel Accounting for Sustainability established by King Charles III.
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