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Technology Leadership in the Boardroom: Driving Trust and Value


The 2024 report calls on boards to govern transformative technology with more definition, a more strategic focus, and more proactive engagement. The report will be available on October 7, 2024.

2023 Report

A Call to Action

The 2023 Blue Ribbon Commission report calls on boards to explicitly use culture as an instrument to drive board excellence in today’s complex environment. 

This comprehensive report contains the tools and insights to make demonstrative impact in your boardroom.

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The Diverse Board: Moving from Interest to Action

This report, updated in 2020, delves into the benefits of having a lead director focused on increasing diversity in the boardroom. 

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Fit for the Future: An Urgent Imperative for Board Leadership

The board leader as an agent of change. 

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Report of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Adaptive Governance

A look at the boardʼs oversight of disruptive risk. 

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Report of the NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Culture as a Corporate Asset

Oversight of culture must be a key board responsibility. 

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The 2024 Co-Chairs and Commissioners

The 2024 report was developed with the collective experience and insights of the diverse 24-member Commission who serve on more than 50 boards in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

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Nora Denzel

Advanced Micro Devices (Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee), Gen Digital, and NACD

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David Kenny

Former CEO, Digitas, Nielsen, and The Weather Company Best Buy (Chair) and Nielsen (Executive Chair)

Commissioners

The NACD 2024 Blue Ribbon Commission comprises a roster of distinguished corporate leaders and subject-matter experts. Primary organization affiliations are in bold and selected board seats in italics.

  • Claudia Allen, Senior Advisor at the KPMG Board Leadership Center
  • Glenn Booraem, Principal, Office of the General Counsel, Vanguard Raj & Kamla Gupta Governance Institute at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business (Industry Chair) and the NACD Philadelphia Chapter (Program Chair)
  • Daniel Dobrygowski, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Head, Governance and Trust, World Economic Forum Karkhana Global
  • Tracey Doi, NACD.DCTM , Retired Chief Financial Officer, Toyota NA NACD North Texas Chapter, Pentair, and Quest Diagnostics
  • Nicholas Donofrio, Founder, NMD Consulting LLC HYPR (Lead Director), NACD, Quantexa (Chair), SecurityScorecard, Sproxil (Chair), USA Chips Act NSTC
  • Deborah Dunie, NACD.DC™, Axient, Harvest Returns (Advisory Board Member), NACD National Chapter (Advisory Board Chair), and Tetrad Digital Integrity (Advisory Board Member)
  • Dorlisa Flur, NACD.DC™, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC (Trustee), NACD Carolinas Chapter (Chair), Sally Beauty Holdings, SpartanNash, and United States Cold Storage
  • Peter Gleason, President and CEO, NACD, NACD
  • Holly Gregory, Cochair, Global Corporate Governance Practice, Sidley Austin LLP
  • Diane Hessan, Brightcove (Chair), Eastern Bank, NACD New England Chapter, Panera Bread Co., Sago, Tufts University (Trustee Emerita)
  • Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
  • Jannice Koors, Senior Managing Director, Pearl Meyer
  • Gina Loften, FourSquare, Interwell Health, Thoughtworks, TIAA (Trustee), and TTEC
  • Ryan McManus, NACD.DC™, Columbia University Think Bigger Technology and Innovation Hub, Empower, NACD New York Chapter (President), and Nortech Systems
  • Margot McShane, Coleader, Board and CEO Practice, Americas, Russell Reynolds
  • Larry Quinlan, NACD.DC™, Booking Holdings, Jones Lang LaSalle, and ServiceNow
  • Rima Qureshi, Loblaw Companies Limited and Mastercard
  • Casey Santos, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Nashville Electric Service, and Omnicom (Independent Director)
  • Brig. Gen. Greg Touhill, US AIR FORCE (RET.) Director, CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Major Gen. Suzanne "Zan" Vautrinot, US AIR FORCE (RET.) Battelle, City of Hope, CSX Corp., Ecolab, Parsons Corp., and Wells Fargo Corp.
  • Leroy Williams, JE Dunn Construction, Molson Coors Beverage Co., NACD Colorado Chapter, and UMB Financial Corp.
  • Laurie Yoler, Aptiv (Technical Advisory Board Member), Church & Dwight, and NACD Northern California Chapter

2024 BRC Report

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