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Sandra Gobert, Executive Direrctor GUBERNA, wrote an opinion following the contribution of Ignace Van Doorselaere, CEO Neuhaus, in De Tijd of 3 August 2020. 

Describing the complexity of corporate governance for start-ups, a truly diverse group, without relying on superficial checklists of recommendations, might be just as difficult as convincing a new-born start-up of the long-term benefits of a well-thought-through governance structure. Luc Sterckx succeeded in both in his book “Corporate Governance for start-ups”, written in cooperation with GUBERNA. 

To be able to pay more attention to non-profit organisations that want to further develop or strengthen their good governance, GUBERNA has started a partnership with ToolBox asbl-vzw.

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On 29 June 2020, GUBERNA and Deloitte Directors Net organised a joint webinar on the topic “Governing Director and Executive Rewards in Uncertain Times”. This live session was the occasion to reflect on the adaptations to the remuneration policy of directors and executives in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Check out the Trends Podcast (in Dutch) with Prof. dr. Abigail Levrau on the impact of the corona crisis on boards of directors.

Sustainability and digitalisation: two concepts that have become increasingly relevant since the new millennium. Twenty years later, it has become dramatically clear that sustainability and digitalisation engender important and even disruptive changes in businesses and society; moreover, their mutual interaction and connection predict for even greater effects.

Soon, the GUBERNA Home of Governance Talks will begin! During this new webinar series, we would like to inspire our member-board members from diverse types of organisations and sectors to share their experiences about what good governance means to their organisation and how they experienced the last few months.

With our traditional economic model undergoing profound change, business as usual belongs to the past. The need for prominent inclusion of environmental and social sustainability is taking off sharply. Companies need to respond to this new state if they want to survive. They need to excel in integrating the three pillars of sustainability into their strategy: financial, environmental, social. Boards need to serve as a sensor in this new reality of business

The ISA’s cyber-risk handbooks are an attempt to provide Board members with a simple and coherent framework to understand cyber risk, as well as a series of straight-forward questions for Boards to ask management to assure that their organisation is properly addressing its unique cyber-risk posture.

On 21 April GUBERNA held its first digital member forum around the theme “The implications of the Urgenda case on the accountability of organisations and the climate debate in the light of the Covid-19 crisis”. Before turning towards an overview of the event, it is important to sketch the context. Covid-19 has pushed GUBERNA, just as many other organisations, forward on its journey towards digitalisation.  Our first digital member forum is an excellent example thereof, but it is not the only one.