Podcast #77 | Susan Angele and Stephen Brown: Insights from the KPMG Board Leadership Center.
In episode #77 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Susan Angele and Stephen Brown, both Senior Advisors of the KPMG Board Leadership Center.
Susan Angele is a frequent writer and speaker on board governance topics, including strategy, risk, culture, the corporation’s role in society, and board composition and effectiveness. She is a lawyer and former Fortune 500 executive, with 25+ years in the consumer products industry, including roles as Vice President, Global Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Governance Officer at The Hershey Company, and Chief Counsel, US Snacks at Mondelez (then a $5 billion division of Kraft/Nabisco).
Stephen Brown advises business leaders on key governance challenges, including shareholder activism and engagement, board composition, ESG risks and strategy. Formerly, he was CEO of the Society of Corporate Governance and led the corporate governance group at TIAA/Nuveen. Prior to TIAA, Stephen practiced securities law at WilmerHale and Skadden and was an associate with Goldman Sachs.
In this podcast, they talk about the following topics:
Director onboarding insights.
Board diversity trends.
Board oversight for climate change.
Lessons from the 2022 Proxy Season on the ESG front, and the increasing politicization and polarization in corporate governance.
The so-called new era of “shareholder democracy” with large institutional investors passing through voting power to beneficial owners.
Recommendations for current directors and executives seeking to launch their board careers.
You can listen to the episode directly at https://boardroom-governance.com/episodes/susan-angele-and-stephen-brown (where you can find all the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.
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