Boardroom Advisory

New Year, New You, says the adage. Looking at the way it started, 2026 looks a lot like 2025, to be honest. Buckle up. And Happy New Year. Here is our pick of ten highlights, which should be on the agenda of every CEO for January 2026. Going up. Macro-economic indicators are solid...

Type a single prompt into ChatGPT asking for the best solution in your category, and you will see the new marketing contest play out in real time on the screen. In seconds an AI assistant ranks brands, compares offers, and points a ready-to-buy customer straight at the winners, while everyone else is invisible. Research...

Walk the halls of a typical Fortune 1000 and you’ll see AI-generated drafts, forecasts, and code reviews sliding into workflows with little fanfare. That pattern shows up in the year-three executive summary of Wharton Human-AI Research and GBK Collective, which tracks mainstream use, tighter guardrails, and budgets moving to proven programs in 2025. External benchmarks echo...

Integrating Generative AI (Gen AI) into organizational workflows offers transformative potential, yet the transition often encounters skepticism and resistance. One effective strategy to mitigate these challenges is leveraging early adopters—team members who enthusiastically embrace new technology—to facilitate communication, boost efficiency, and drive adoption. By empowering these champions, organizations can establish a peer-driven communication model that reduces fear, fosters trust, and accelerates the...

Anyone who starts a business knows the importance of goal setting. It provides direction and focus, boosts motivation, enables performance tracking and promotes accountability. My journey from English soccer coach to building a multi-million-dollar sports company in the U.S taught me a lot about goal-setting — about what to do and what...

It's not that we're training the wrong things — it's that we're not showing how the pieces fit together. I've spent 30 years leading teams, delivering programmes, and training thousands of leaders. And I've come to a conclusion about leadership training that might ruffle a few feathers. The content isn't...

Holidays invite us to gather with family, friends, colleagues, and our wider community, and in those moments the past and present mingle in a way that feels almost ceremonial. Memories surface, traditions echo, and the feelings we’ve built with one another spill easily into the room. Each relationship carries its own history, its own...

Thanks to my interest in international travel, I have learned how to enter a new place with humility and curiosity, how to communicate with the locals regardless of language barriers, and how to build lasting connections with people from around the world. It has given me an advantage in my...

It’s December. Your inbox is overflowing. Everyone wants a donation, a gift, a few dollars before the end of the year. Maybe you’re tempted to swipe away, ignore it all. You’re tired. The world feels heavy. Your money feels tight. You tell yourself: “Not now. I’ve got enough going on.” But what if I told you...

A quiet revolution is reshaping America’s pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities—one that blends cutting-edge science, real-time data integrity, and strategic onshoring to strengthen the nation’s drug supply chain. On a recent episode of Around The Block, the podcast powered by Circular Protocol, leaders from Bright Path Laboratories outlined how the future of U.S. medicines is becoming decentralized,...