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Updated April 2025
Thought Leadership From Our Local Chapter Partners
To support our members in adapting to the dynamic business landscape, we have compiled a valuable collection of content and thought leadership from our chapter partners. These resources are designed to provide insights and guidance for navigating the ever-changing business environments we encounter.
BAKER BOTTS
Baker Botts is a full-service, leading global law firm, recognized for their understanding of the industries they serve. They have a long, distinguished tradition of service to their clients since the 1840s. During the earliest days of Houston, Baker Botts represented the burgeoning industries of cotton merchants, brokers and railroads.
- AI Legal Watch: March 27, 2025
- Environmental Evolutions: New Hosts, New Executive Orders (Podcast)
- The AI Development Race: Opportunities and Challenges (Podcast)
- When Can District Courts Cancel Trademark Applications?
GHD
GHD is a leading professional services company in water, energy, resources, environment, property, and transportation. Committed to sustainability, it delivers advisory, digital, engineering, architecture, environmental, and construction solutions to public and private clients. Established in 1928 and privately owned, GHD has a network of over 12,000 professionals across 160 offices on five continents, dedicated to creating sustainable outcomes for communities and industries worldwide.
- Advancing water reuse in the beverage industry
- Crossroads: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's Infrastructure
- Enhancing emergency response: The API guidelines for air monitoring tactics
- Patchwork of state-level chemical regulations: what businesses need to know
KPMG
One of the world's leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm in the United States. KPMG's leading the industry in new and exciting ways. Their size and strength make KPMG much more agile and responsive to changing trends.
MERIDIAN COMPENSATION PARTNERS
Meridian Compensation Partners delivers effective solutions and independent advice in executive compensation and corporate governance consulting. Meridian provides management, boards and compensation committees at public and private corporations with services that include board level advisory services, compensation program design, research and competitive market intelligence on executive pay and governance matters.
- Considerations in Proxy Disclosure
- Early Impacts of Economic Uncertainty for Oil and Gas Companies
- Key Issues Awaiting Compensation Committees in 2025
- Redefining the CEO’s Role for the Next Generation
GRANT THORNTON
Grant Thornton has what it takes to help you drive excellence throughout your business. They collaborate, deliberate and innovate. Their people speak up, get creative and shake up the status quo.
- 6 questions for boards: AI and human capital
- Boards: Ensure a structured approach to AI innovation
- Capitalizing Interest to Unlock Deductions
HARDEE INVESTMENT GROUP/RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The Premier Advisory Group focused on navigating a seamless integration of personal wealth management and corporate executive service needs, so you may live the lifestyle you desire.
- Audio commentary: Unraveling the uncertainties
- Tariffs: Bracing for market impact
- U.S. equities: Signs of a cycle peak, with a Q2 reprieve likely
LOCKTON
Lockton is a global professional services firm with 6,500 Associates who advise clients on protecting their people, property, and reputations. Lockton has grown to become the world's largest privately held, independent insurance broker by helping clients achieve their business objectives.
- Ensuring business resilience in a polarised world
- How healthcare organizations can prepare for greater scrutiny of private equity investments
- Quarterly Overview: State laws affecting health plan compliance
CROWE
Crowe is a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm with offices around the world. Connecting deep industry and specialized knowledge with innovative technology, their dedicated professionals create value for clients with integrity and objectivity. By listening to their clients, they learn about their businesses and their unique challenges.
- Crowe 2024 U.S. Impact Report
- Q1 2025 Quarterly Close: Keep Up on Accounting Trends and Topics
- Regulation E: How To Meet Overdraft Opt-in Compliance
DELOITTE
Deloitte LLP provides industry-leading audit & assurance, consulting, tax, and risk and financial advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including more than 85 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 6,000 private and middle market companies.
- Has the CISO finally been accepted as a key strategic player?
- State of the US consumer: March 2025
- Weekly global economic update
EY
EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
- Americas board priorities 2025
- Quarterly update for audit committees
- What directors should know about the 2025 proxy season
FGS GLOBAL
FGS Global is the strategic advisor for the stakeholder economy. Winning support across audiences in a complex, fast-moving, interconnected world is more important than ever. To succeed, you need sound strategic advice, deep experience, a 360-degree perspective, real-time intelligence, and flawless execution. With the right people and the right tools, you can seize opportunities and confront challenges.
- Capital Markets Days: making a credible and lasting impact
- Navigating New SEC Guidance for Schedule 13G
- The Spring Statement
HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES
At Heidrick & Struggles, everything they do is guided by their purpose: We help our client change the world, one leadership team at a time.
- Chief people officer of 2030: Building a tool kit to get from here to there
- Leading across boundaries and divides
- Santiago Argelich Hesse, CEO of Cellnex Poland, on fostering trust and alignment through M&A and the future of digital infrastructure (Podcast)
HOLLAND & KNIGHT
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with approximately 1,600 lawyers and other professionals in 30 offices worldwide. The firm's lawyers and advisors provide representation in litigation, corporate and finance, real estate and governmental matters. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with efficient access to attorneys throughout the firm.
- A Look at Ongoing Nuclear Litigation
- A Regulatory Assessment of AI Performance Guarantees
- Federal Judge Issues TRO Pausing CDPAP Transition
PEARL MEYER
Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management helping organizations build, develop, and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success. Their strategy-driven compensation and leadership consulting services act as catalysts for value creation and competitive advantage, addressing critical links between people and outcomes.
- Six Ways Compensation Committees Can Drive Technology Governance
- Anticipating the Effects of Tariffs on Executive Compensation
- CEO Exit Packages and Other Considerations for Departing Executives
RUSSELL REYNOLDS ASSOCIATES
Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) is a management consulting firm. Established in 1969, the firm assists international and domestic companies develop leaders, assess business processes, and recruit new executives. It provides leadership, advisory, and executive recruiting services.