The role of the Company Secretary has evolved from that of a note-taker at board meetings and an administrative servant of the board to an essential figure in an organisation’s corporate governance. Do all companies in the UK have to appoint a Company Secretary? The short answer is no. Under the Companies Act 2006, it is mandatory for Public Limited
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Shona became a Non-Exec at 31. She spoke to Dynamic Boards’ CEO, Sarah Pierman, about being a young Non-Executive Director, how she landed her first board position and her message for other young people applying for Non-Exec roles.
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Every business is now a tech business. Yet many boards are still lacking technology skills. They have been for quite some time, in 2016 we saw that only 2% of FTSE 350 companies have a technology specialist in the boardroom¹. In 2020 research showed technology was the most commonly cited skill gap on FTSE 100 boards². The stats for other
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Diversity awkwardness. In this series we hit the awkward topics around boards, and we try to encourage a move towards a thoughtful discussion that will drive us to create truly dynamic boards. This is #2 in the series, click here to read #1 “I’m not diversity”. “I don’t want to be asked to join the board just because I’m the
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Diversity awkwardness. In this series we hit the awkward topics around boards, and we try to encourage a move towards a thoughtful discussion that will drive us to create truly dynamic boards. He started the video call by saying “So firstly, thank you for speaking with me. I know I’m not diversity. But I’m interested in chatting to you about
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All too often we only hear about company boards when something goes wrong. When there is a scandal we ask ‘where was the board?’ and we expect them to perform as a public punchbag. Look back 30 years, and UK boards were often trophy cabinets: the great and the good, there to show the evidence of the company’s gravitas. Look
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