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Governance news bites – 21 March 2025

A collection of governance-related news that you might have missed in the past two weeks.

• Board composition
• Shareholders
• Stakeholders

Letter from Australia*: Notes from a sunburnt boardroom

From superannuation woes to AI governance, Australia’s boardrooms offer lessons for Kiwi directors in an era of complexity.

• AI
• Climate change

Kordia report shows AI cyberattacks front of mind

AI attacks were cited as a problem by 28 per cent of respondents to the latest Kordia cybersecurity survey.

• Cyber security

What I’m reading – Amy Cavanaugh

What does resilience look like in effective leadership and decision making, and what needs to change to embrace true diversity?

• Board composition
• Leadership
• What I'm Reading

Building an inclusive boardroom together

Boards play a critical role in setting the tone for inclusive leadership.

• Board composition
• Diversity

A time-sensitive opportunity for charities to build financial sustainability

The JBWere Bequest Report 2025 highlights an opportunity for charitable organisations to strengthen financial resilience.

• Family business
• Not for profits
• Purpose

IMHO: The post-war consensus has gone

The world has fundamentally changed. Business and government must work together to protect the NZ economy.

• Supply chains
• Trade

Strategic focus needed to future-proof New Zealand’s economy

Traditional economic strengths may no longer be sufficient to ensure our future prosperity, new report claims.

The wake you leave behind

The wake you leave behind needs to be about normalising the presence of women in governance, not as the exception, but as the expectation.

• Board composition
• Board dynamics
• Chairing

Why microaggressions could send women off the glass cliff

Burn out and distress might be a result of microaggressions and could be derailing women from getting to the top – and staying there.

• Board dynamics
• Diversity
• Leadership

Walking on broken glass

Calling out poor behaviour is the first step towards avoiding broken glass and having to walk away from toxic behaviour in the boardroom.

• Board dynamics
• Conduct
• Diversity

Mentoring: A safe harbour

Mentoring can enable you to stay the course, overcome challenges or obstacles and move forward with clarity. Find out more.

• Chairing
• Leadership

Governance news bites

A collection of governance-related news that you might have missed in the past two weeks.

• AI
• Board composition
• Succession Planning

App ban the right move

Should you ban these apps from your work devices?

• Cyber security
• Digital

Multiplying the impact

Could collaboration ease the pain in the for-purpose sector? Suzanne Cookson believes it can and that change can be multiplied by doing so.

• Board meetings
• Chairing
• Not for profits

Credit crunch and green shoots: navigating New Zealand’s economic headwinds

Directors face a mixed bag of cautious optimism and pressing financial challenges.

Former Port of Auckland chief executive sentenced

The first conviction of an officer of a large company under the Health and Safety at Work Act has resulted in a $130,000 fine.

• From our sponsors
• Health and safety

Phoenix achieves measurable, structured emissions reductions

A strategic approach with a focus on one factor at a time has begun paying off in terms of carbon emissions reductions.

• Climate change

Capital markets reform submission supports reassessment of liability provisions

Chapter Zero New Zealand made a submission on proposed changes to the climate-related disclosures regime.

• Climate change
• Liability

Tax reforms stir debate among NFP directors

Proposed changes to the treatment of unrelated income, donor control and mutuality may reshape tax compliance for the not-for-profit sector.

• Compliance
• Not for profits