IS BEING A BOARD DIRECTOR LONELY?

A weird cultural thing’s emerged through the history and formality of boardrooms, which has made it a space that makes directors lonely. Vulnerability is seen as a weakness because comraderie is weak. FDI’s Paul chats with Matt Fullbrook of Fullbrook Board Effectiveness - on how and what boards and directors can do to click. Obnoxious wisdom awaits.

Matt Fullbrook is a board effectiveness researcher and consultant, and is the manager of the David & Sharon Johnston Centre for Corporate Governance Innovation at the Rotman School of Management. Under his direction, the Rotman School has evolved into the central hub of governance research in Canada.

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Ep. #70
Is being a board director lonely?
(with Matt Fullbrook)

We discuss:

• Why boards breed loneliness, and whether this is just a human problem

• How boards can make people comfortable by switching up rigid ways of doing things

• What individual board directors can do to feel less lonely

• The power of being consciously obnoxious