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Join Nithya B. Das, Chief Legal and Chief Administrative Officer, and Beth Gidez, Associate General Counsel, as they share how Diligent ERM helps identify, assess, and communicate risks effectively. Seamlessly integrate with existing workflows, achieve a unified risk view, and enhance transparency with the board reporting template.

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For Modern Governance 100 honoree Jaime Durkowski, serving as Executive Administrative Assistant for Marquardt School District 15 in Glendale Heights, Illinois, has always been a balancing act. Durkowski has to support board members in their work while also upholding a high level of public transparency. Previously, all this work was done on paper — taking significant time and energy.

Modern Governance 100 honoree Shiona Nash is the Executive Assistant to the Superintendent and Board of Education for Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, which serves over 9,000 students.

Creating board packets was a major source of stress and frustration for Nash. The manual process involved creating, printing and collating hundreds of pages of materials. Often, Nash would have to hand-deliver packets to each board member before the meeting and make last-minute edits that usually required full packet reprints.

“I always told my coworkers that if there were one reason I would quit it would probably be because of the board packets,” Nash said.

“Through Diligent, we’ve been able to increase our transparency with our community,” Nash said. “Our mission is to develop a generation of world-class learners, and Diligent helps us to achieve that mission — helping our board members to do their jobs to their fullest ability.”

In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, host Dottie Schindlinger is joined by John Rodi, Co-Leader at the KPMG Board Leadership Center, to discuss data governance and risk. John highlights why data-related risk has become a pressing concern for companies and boards, delves into the most significant data-related risks today, and explains how companies are managing these risks through effective data governance frameworks. The conversation also touches on the implications of Generative AI (GenAI) on data governance and cybersecurity risk profiles.

Stephanie Benton is the Senior Manager, Corporate Governance Lead at MN8 Energy. In her work, she often has to juggle providing consistent information to her board, board observers and her management team.

Priya Cherian Huskins, Senior Vice President & Partner at Woodruff Sawyer, understands the inefficiencies of paper-based board meetings. Years ago, as a corporate securities associate, she had to chase down board members across the globe to get board books to them in a timely fashion. Now, as a trustee of two public and two private company boards, Huskins needs materials delivered to her quickly and securely.

Diligent has empowered Dentalcorp with better board functioning, allowing its directors to access the materials they need before and during the meeting, so they can do their jobs well.

Implementing the Diligent One Platform allowed Ooma to reduce some of its time-consuming IT compliance processes from three weeks to a mere four hours.

In this episode of Inside Today’s Boardrooms, we’re joined by Maureen Ohlhausen, Antitrust & Competition Partner at Wilson Sonsini and former Commissioner of the FTC. She delves into the recent Supreme Court decision that dismantles the long-standing Chevron doctrine. The conversation explores the original 1984 Chevron ruling, the details of the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo case, and the implications for corporate governance and regulatory practices.

After OrthoVirginia experienced a company-wide cyberattack, the organization knew that their board members needed a more secure solution for meeting and collaborating with one another. OrthoVirginia also wanted to bring greater efficiency to its paper-based procedures — including voting practices that would sometimes take two or three weeks to complete.

Bristol Bay Native Corporation’s board members often live in rural areas of Alaska that often don’t have reliable access to the internet or electricity. The corporation faced costly, time-consuming challenges in getting up-to-date meeting materials to trustees and ensuring that they were briefed before each meeting.  

In this episode of Inside Today's Boardrooms, we’re joined by Brad Sorrels, Chair of the Corporate Governance Litigation Practice at Wilson Sonsini. Sorrels discusses board communications, the risks associated with poor communication, and best practices to follow.