Susan Angele and Stephen Brown: Insights from the KPMG Board Leadership Center.

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Susan Angele and Stephen Brown, both Senior Advisors of the KPMG Board Leadership Center. Susan is a frequent writer and speaker on board governance topics, including strategy, risk, culture, the corporation’s role in society, and board composition and effectiveness. She is a lawyer and former Fortune 500 executive, with 25+ years in the consumer products industry, including roles as Vice President, Global Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Governance Officer at The Hershey Company, and Chief Counsel, US Snacks at Mondelez (then a $5 billion division of Kraft/Nabisco). Stephen advises business leaders on key governance challenges, including shareholder activism and engagement, board composition, ESG risks and strategy. Formerly, he was CEO of the Society of Corporate Governance and led the corporate governance group at TIAA/Nuveen. Prior to TIAA, Stephen practiced securities law at WilmerHale and Skadden and was an associate with Goldman Sachs. In this podcast, we talk about director onboarding insights, board diversity trends, board oversight for climate change, lessons from the 2022 Proxy Season on the ESG front, and the increasing politicization and polarization in corporate governance. We also address the so-called new era of “shareholder democracy” with large institutional investors passing through voting power to beneficial owners. Finally, they provide recommendations for current directors and executives seeking to start their board careers. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com

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In-depth interview podcast with leading corporate governance experts, including world-class founders, scholars, board members, executives, investors and more. The content is structured as a long-form conversation to explore not only the latest corporate governance trends, but also to get some personal insights from some of the best and brightest minds behind America's boardrooms.