Boardroom Governance Podcast

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• 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

  
• Raffaela Rein: How AI Is Changing the Way Boards Work

  Raffaela Rein, CEO and founder of BoardLens, joins Evan to discuss how AI can help board members prepare better, ask sharper questions, and engage more deeply in strategy. They also explore AI risks, private-market governance, and how AI may change the way boards work.

  September 1, 2026 | 56:06 | E220

  
• Marc Huffman, CEO of OnBoard: AI Governance Inside the Board Portal

  Marc Huffman, CEO of OnBoard, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss AI in the boardroom, director use of AI, and how AI may change the information gap between management and directors. This episode also marks the launch of the Boardroom Governance YouTube channel.

  August 25, 2026 | 52:33 | E219

  
• Shannon Nash: Boards, AI Agents, and Human Judgment

  Shannon Nash, COO and CFO of Vibrant Planet, Partner at Alpha, and board member at NetScout Systems, SoFi Bank, and Lazy Dog Restaurants, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss boards, AI agents, human judgment, cybersecurity, regulated and private company boards, risk resilience, escalation, and how directors can ask better questions about AI governance.

  August 17, 2026 | 55:00 | E218

  
• Sandra Gobert: European Governance in a Changing World

  Sandra Gobert, Executive Director of GUBERNA, joins the Boardroom Governance Podcast to discuss European corporate governance, board education, family firms, control structures, relationship agreements, state ownership, stakeholder governance, board reviews, founder control, Europe’s competitiveness, and why board dynamics matter.

  August 3, 2026 | 1:00:26 | E217

  
• Karen Francis and Penny Herscher: The Chairs’ View of a Changing World

  Karen Francis and Penny Herscher return to the Boardroom Governance Podcast for a joint conversation on AI governance, the creation of The Chairs Circle as a peer forum for board and committee chairs, data center politics, CEO succession, founders versus boards, EVs, China’s rise, chips and geopolitics, and boards in a fractured world.

  July 20, 2026 | 58:31 | E216