How to avoid death by hubris at the board table

Research has shown that hubris is the chief enemy of learning and development of boards and, therefore, of the long-term survival of the organisations of which directors and trustees are custodians. Hubris makes people deaf to learning and threatened by it. If hubristic people hold sway on a board, rational, objective decision-making can be compromised, along with effective risk management.

At this webinar, learn how to eradicate hubris in the boardroom and pave the way for better decision-making, improved risk management, enhanced reputation, and a commitment to continuous growth and innovation by the board.

Director - Business Torque Systems

Peter Allen

Peter is the owner of Business Torque Systems Ltd, an industry leader in governance development, research, and practice.

Peter works with boards to enable them to embed learning and development practices, through the use of a board evaluation to facilitate, over time, what clients call transformational.

Peter works with profit and not-for-profit organisations, family-owned businesses, and Maori trusts. He works across many sectors in New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific including community, professional services, agriculture, primary production, government, retail, and wholesale. Peter runs DairyNZ’s Rural Governance Development Programme.

Chief Financial Officer - BoardPro

Matthew Griffin

Matthew is the Chief Financial Officer of BoardPro and an associate member of CPA Australia.Matthew uses his commercial background to drive business performance with a laser focus on the financial metrics that matter. Before joining BoardPro, Matthew worked in finance, and general management roles in Public practise, FMCG and Technology companies.

Matthew's primary focus is the financing of SaaS businesses; however, he still has a keen interest in good governance, international accounting standards and public policy. He was a finalist in the New Zealand biannual Tax Policy Scholarship Competition.

Managing director Conscious Governance

Steven Bowman

Steven Bowman is Managing Director of Conscious Governance and brings a great depth of experience facilitating Board reviews and strategic planning processes.

Steven has held numerous senior executive, CEO and Board positions in USA and Australia, as well as authoring and co-authoring over 14 books on governance, strategy, risk and executive leadership

Watch Video

"I like how the webinars are concise, and deliver what is required, to make modifications to current systems. No pressure and no selling at your events is great. We can simply focus on the great content"

Paula M

Secretary, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

"Thank you for providing insight into better board governance, I have picked up valuable information from these short and sharp webinars."

Mary A

Company Secretary, SME (51-100 emp.)

"This webinar provided an excellent opportunity to think through what is currently provided to my Boards and opportunities where improvement could be achieved."

Virginia P

Board Secretary, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

"These 45 min sessions are fast becoming my staple brief sessions for topical skills update. Keep them going please."

Andrea M

Human Resource & Compliance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

"Thank you, this was a helpful session and very timely - our board has just this year planned specific strategic discussion topics into our board calendar, to help us be more strategic."

Peter L

Chairman, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

"Thank you for providing a forum for knowledge sharing, being a CEO is often isolating. This opens the conversation up for sharing experience and positive, solutions based outcomes"

Lester M

Chairman, Mid-Market (101-500 emp.)

How to avoid death by hubris at the board table

Register for the Webinar

20th July 2023

11:00 am AEST | 1:00 pm NZST

45 minutes

Expert Speakers

Peter Allen

Matthew Griffin

Steven Bowman

Why attend?

What our Webinar Guests Have to Say

Governance made easy.