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grit in the boardroom
Grit in the Boardroom breaks down leadership decisions, director dialogue, and governance perspectives from across industries.
Bi-Weekly episodes of Grit in the Boardroom bring together voices from across leadership, including executives, chairs, and directors, who have stood on the edge of critical calls, felt the weight of risk, and lived with the outcomes.
Host Erika Eliasson-Norris – CEO of Beyond Governance, Founder of a multi award-winning consultancy, and Governance Assessor to the UK’s Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry – guides listeners through management case studies, turnaround stories, and candid executive interviews. With nearly 20 years inside the C-suite, Erika highlights the strengths, shortcomings, conflicts, and strategic decision-making that define modern corporate governance.
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Ethicability: The Leadership Lever That Transforms Company Culture
Poor Boardroom Decisions: What the Wirecard Board Failed to Hear
Execution Over Ego: The Boardroom Decisions That Make-or-Break Governance
Host Erika Eliasson-Norris, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Beyond Governance and Governance Assessor to the United Kingdom’s Post Office Horizon Information Technology (IT) Inquiry, sits down with Ram Charan, global adviser to chief executive officers and corporate boards, for a direct conversation about corporate governance, strategic decision-making and the reality of leadership decisions inside the C-suite.
Why Boards Must Innovate Fast to Strengthen Governance in the AI Era
From Personal Networks to the C-Suite: What Aspiring Directors Should Know
Judgement Matters More Than Data in the Boardroom
Erika Eliasson-Norris and Sir Andrew Likierman explore how boards can strengthen board effectiveness by improving self-awareness, encouraging challenge, and supporting better leadership decisions.
Building Leadership That Lasts Across Generations
Erika Eliasson-Norris explores the governance lessons hiding inside one of the most overlooked challenges in business today – intergenerational leadership. Sharath draws on a defining inflection point from his own career, when the government of Delhi asked him to scale an educational organisation from 300 to 20,000 schools almost overnight, to show what board effectiveness actually looks like under pressure and how most boards are still falling short.
Unpacking One of the Most Dramatic Business Turnarounds
Erika Eliasson-Norris sits down with one of the most compelling voices on what turnaround stories require. Not heroic leadership, but the unglamorous work of building belief, aligning teams, and making company culture change a structural reality rather than a PowerPoint slide.
Why AI and Tech Mean Nothing Without People
Erika Eliasson-Norris sits down with Nneka Abulokwe OBE – a FTSE and Private Equity board veteran, digital change expert, and leading voice on ESG. Together, they pull back the curtain on why board effectiveness relies on absolute intimacy with your organisation, not cold distance from it.
Are Universities Ready for the Next Big Crisis?
Erika Eliasson-Norris sits down with Professor Sally Wheeler OBE, Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London, a distinguished academic and leading authority on corporate law and governance. Together, they pull back the curtain on the intense pressure cooker of higher education governance, exploring why board effectiveness requires managing deeply human stakes, not just ticking compliance boxes.