If you want to drive change, don't drive alone. Identify your allies. Bring those allies with you. Let them ride shotgun.

Inclusion is not an "HR problem" but a strategic challenge for boards. The solution does not lie only in fixing how you hire but in committing to driving cultural change.

If you are a board director who lacks fluency in technologies, established or emerging, you may be failing in your duties as a director, perhaps without realising.

Governance is a contact sport that requires boards to understand the connective tissue of an organisation; which like the human body is sadly only noticed when it fails to deliver as expected. We can choose to take more conscious approaches to noting its role.

Boards are in a liminal space as growing complexity necessitates different governance structures, different people, and frequent self-reviews for relevance.