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The Next Era of Board Evaluations:

From Compliance to Strategic Advantage

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December 8, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST Webinar

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Lisa Spivey, 
Executive Director

Kate Azima, 
Director of Partnerships & Marketing
programs@northerncalifornia.nacdonline.org

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Non Member Price: Complimentary

Credits: 1 NACD Credit

Traditional board evaluations—checklists, templated reports, and backward-looking assessments—no longer match the speed or complexity of today’s governance landscape. AI, cyber risk, geopolitical shifts, shareholder pressure, and new demands on talent are redefining what “effectiveness” really means in the boardroom. Directors now need evaluation processes that expose real performance, real judgment, and real readiness for what comes next.

This panel will dissect real scenarios, challenge legacy practices, and explore what a forward-looking evaluation process must deliver in this era of continuous oversight.

Learning Outcomes

  • Tech-Enabled Assessments: Can AI, data analytics, and emerging platforms reveal blind spots in judgment, decision patterns, and board composition that traditional qualitative surveys routinely miss?
  • Culture & Candor: What does it take to create conditions where peer feedback is honest, psychological safety is real, and cultural issues surface early—before they evolve into governance problems?
  • Future-Fit Governance: If the evaluation process becomes continuous, how should it inform board refreshment, succession planning, and long-term strategic readiness?

Board evaluations shouldn't be another compliance exercise, but about transforming evaluations into a strategic advantage for board effectiveness.

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Speakers

Independent Director, Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation

Jessica Denecour

Since 2020, Jessica Denecour has been on the Board of Directors of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States, serving the northern two-thirds of California...

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Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Louis Lehot

Louis Lehot is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Los Angeles offices, where he is a member of the private equity & venture capital, M&A, and transactions…

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Consultant and Office Leader, Egon Zehnder

Logan McDougal

Logan McDougal leads Egon Zehnder’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices, where he is a trusted advisor to executives, clients, and boards. McDougal is also active across Egon Zehnder’s consumer and technology practice groups and helps lead the agro-food, marketing and sales, and alcohol beverage segments. He has extensive operating expertise across...

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Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation

Brian M. Wong

Brian M. Wong is Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), one of the largest utility companies in the United States, providing natural gas and electric service to approximately 16 million people in Northern and Central California...

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Partner, Playground Global; Board Director, Church & Dwight Co., Inc., NACD Northern California

Laurie Yoler

Laurie Yoler is an experienced board director, venture capital investor, and strategist skilled at advising companies and founders in imagining, building, and scaling disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, automation, and logistics. She is savvy in fundraising, M&A strategy and negotiations, cybersecurity oversight, and in devising complex, unconventional strategic alliances…

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Thank you to our partners.

Egon Zehnder Foley and Lardner LLP
NACD Northern California
Contact Us

Lisa Spivey, 
Executive Director

Kate Azima, 
Director of Partnerships & Marketing
programs@northerncalifornia.nacdonline.org

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