Twenty company secretaries gathered recently for dinner under the auspices of the Leadership Development Programme. Our guest speaker for the evening was Graham Staples, Group Company Secretary at Schroders plc, a constituent of the FTSE100, and Europe’s largest independent listed asset management company. Graham has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry,
The Leadership Development Programme*, under the guidance of Ashridge Business School, recently discussed how company secretaries can support the delivery of a successful ethics policy – and, in so doing, establish their credibility as the ‘go to’ expert on governance issues. It is important to have a simple definition of ethical behaviour which resonates with work colleagues,
There is a common theme to two of last week’s tales of corporate woe – the cyber hack at TalkTalk, and the publication of the independent report into the Thomas Cook tragedy, when two children died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective boiler while on holiday in Corfu in 2006. In the TalkTalk incident,
