Addressing Challenges in Crown Board Operations: An Honest Discussion on Fostering Transparency and Accountability
Frédéric Duguay
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Canada Infrastructure Bank
Matt Fullbrook
Founder
Ground-Up Governance
- Outlining Crown board best practices for sound governance
- Evaluating current Crown board operations to find solutions that foster transparency and accountability in their roles and relationships with other Crown board members
- Developing best practices for sound Crown board meetings:
- Examining agenda structure
- Determining how Chairs should run the meetings
- Understanding how in-person versus virtual board meetings having affect the quality of the board meeting
- Creating and implementing best practices to keep the meeting on track
- Designing preparation and transition procedures for newly appointed Crown board members to effectively assume their respective roles
- Developing best practices within a culture of transparency and accountability when working with difficult Board members