Annual Conference showed governance as a community, united in its mission to support its peers, organisations, and wider society

An inspiring trip to Uganda reminds us: good governance is global.

It’s not just the government: schools, careers advisers and young people themselves are keen on apprenticeships. The experiences of two governance apprentices suggest it’s also a route to richer diversity and new sources of talent for the profession.

In our research of 50 FTSE companies, we realised you cannot understand board composition in its fuller meaning without an analysis of information from multiple disparate components. We present our findings – and a suggested solution on how to transform the board’s approach to composition through explicit design that responds to specific circumstances.

Organisational development is a process through which organisations can build their capacity for change; developing skills in this area feels like second nature for governance professionals.