Boardroom Governance Podcast

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• Sue Siegel: Innovation, AI, and the Future of Life Sciences

  Sue Siegel, former Chief Innovation Officer of GE and an experienced public company director, joined the Boardroom Governance Summit 2026 in Healdsburg, California, for a discussion on innovation and life sciences. She discusses AI in healthcare, precision medicine, biotech funding, shareholder activism, U.S.-China tensions, corporate venture capital, and how boards can govern innovation in a rapidly changing environment.

  October 23, 2026 | 29:00

  
• Michael Camuñez: Geopolitics, Board Independence, and the Courage to Dissent

  Michael Camuñez, CEO and co-founder of Monarch Global Strategies, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss geopolitics, U.S.-Mexico relations, energy, higher education, board diversity, and director independence. He also explains why boards may be facing a “courage recession” and why good governance sometimes requires challenging consensus.

  October 20, 2026 | 1:00:35 | E224

  
• James D. White: What Makes Boards Work

  James D. White, experienced CEO, board chair, and director, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss what makes boards work. We cover CEO-chair dynamics, working with founders, board culture and refreshment, lessons from turnarounds and IPOs, director tenure, and how AI is changing the skills boards need.

  October 13, 2026 | 40:06 | E223

  
• Leo Strine: Before You Use Artificial Intelligence, Use Your Human Intelligence

  Leo Strine, Of Counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and previously Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, joined the Boardroom Governance Summit 2026 in Healdsburg, California, for a fireside chat keynote on August 26, 2026. He discusses AI, Delaware corporate law, public benefit corporations, private markets, corporate responsibility, and why directors should use human intelligence before relying on artificial intelligence.

  October 8, 2026 | 44:05

  
• Leading Boards Through Rapid Change | Sabastian Niles and Jackie Liu

  In the third episode of our Boardroom Governance Summit series, Sabastian Niles, President and Chief Legal Officer at Salesforce, and Jackie Liu, partner at Morrison & Foerster and a board member at CEVA, discuss board leadership at the pace of change. Recorded in Healdsburg, California, on August 27, 2026.

  October 1, 2026 | 34:13

  
• Ryan Nowicki Stewart (CEO, Pennant AI): AI, Proxy Voting, and the Future of Governance

  Ryan Nowicki Stewart, co-founder and CEO of Pennant AI, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss how AI is changing proxy voting, shareholder engagement, and institutional investor stewardship. We also discuss proxy advisors, Y Combinator, founder control, the convergence of public and private markets, emerging governance structures at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, and why human judgment remains critical as investors adopt AI-powered governance tools.

  September 29, 2026 | 56:13 | E222

  
• Stavros Gadinis: Corporate Ordering | How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict

  Stavros Gadinis, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and author of Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss how companies make rules, AI governance at leading companies such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, corporate decision-making, monitoring and accountability, the role of the general counsel, and how boards can navigate social and technological conflict.

  September 22, 2026 | 50:16 | E221

  
• Directing in the Age of AI | Yvonne Wassenaar & Alla Whitston

  Yvonne Wassenaar and Alla Whitston discuss how boards can oversee AI, strengthen data and cyber governance, build flexibility into AI architecture, and evaluate workforce, investment, and value-creation tradeoffs as the technology evolves. Recorded at the inaugural Boardroom Governance Summit in Healdsburg, California, on August 27, 2026.

  September 15, 2026 | 36:14

  
• CEO Succession: What Boards Need to Get Right | Karen Francis DeGolia & Penny Herscher

  Karen Francis DeGolia and Penny Herscher discuss how boards can approach CEO succession as an ongoing process, develop internal candidates, manage founder and activist dynamics, and rethink leadership needs in an era of AI and rapid change. Recorded at the inaugural Boardroom Governance Summit in Healdsburg, California, on August 27, 2026.

  September 11, 2026 | 31:27