Boardroom hustle #30

Steven Bowman: A pioneer of conscious governance

This week’s Boardroom Hustle episode features Steven Bowman, a seasoned governance advisor, a global entrepreneur and author (of 14 books!).

Amongst his other businesses, Steven is the Managing Director of Conscious Governance, an international business that works with nonprofits and corporations to help create the future, specifically focussed in areas such as strategic planning, governance, risk management and leadership development.

Steven joins us today to provide deep insights into the challenges often faced in the boardroom, and applies his vast knowledge and experience to the thought-provoking question: do you think we’ll even have boards in the future?

 

This week's Boardroom Hustle episode features Steven Bowman, a seasoned governance advisor, global entrepreneur and author (of 14 books!).

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Paul and Steven discuss topics like:

  • What is ‘strategic awareness’?

  • Why his business is called Conscious Governance

  • Can we measure levels of consciousness? And if so, how?

  • How we can make strategic awareness an unstoppable force

  • The interpersonal challenges directors can face in the boardroom, and how to overcome them

  • Steven’s advice for those who might be up against a fellow director with stubborn personal preferences

  • How does a great chair(person) operate?

  • How can we ask powerful questions that can potentially change the dynamics of a board?

  • The greatest gift to an organisation, and how they can receive it

  • The one single thing that can make a board irrelevant

If you loved this episode, you might’ve loved our recent virtual conference, Decision84.

This ground-breaking event, brought to you by Future Directors, Diligent, NeuroPowerGroup and World Future Society, stretched across 4 sessions, over 4 days, and asked 4 really big questions – the answers to which you won’t find anywhere else. 

With an international lineup of speakers, and the chance to network and connect with a carefully curated group of motivated changemakers just like you, this was an event that you had to see to believe.

If you missed it, you can easily catch the event replay. Just click here to purchase the REPLAY package, which gives you all four days of the event, plus exclusive access to the Decision84 Hub.

We hope you enjoy the replay, as well as this installment of Boardroom Hustle.

 
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If there are topics that you’re particularly interested in or any new buzzwords floating around, we’d love to hear from you so that we can talk about these ideas on the show - contact us at hello@futuredirectors.com