The Chartered Governance Institute is running a project titled
the Company Secretary as Changemaker which will run from October
2019 through to July 2020. Comprised of a series of six chapters,
each session will focus on a different aspect of disruption to
traditional working practices
'Governance' isn't necessarily a word that gets the
heart beating faster. It sounds rather formal, heavy even. But even
if the label might seem a bit grand, the subject matter – the
specific practicalities of governance – could not be more
important. How companies and organisations are steered and managed
is under closer scrutiny than ever before. When things are going
well, the outside world may not have too many governance-related
questions to ask. But if there are problems...well, it would be a
good idea to make sure that that the origins of those problems
cannot be found in negligent or less than competent corporate
governance. Because that would get hearts beating faster, but
