The 2026 Corporate Governance Series provides a forward-looking exploration of the key challenges facing boards across international financial centres, offering directors and senior leaders practical insights into evolving expectations amid technological disruption, regulatory scrutiny, cultural change, and growing risk complexity. Across ten expert-led sessions, the series covers AI governance, organisational resilience, risk oversight, cyber preparedness, succession planning, board culture, ESG realities, information quality, and behavioural pressures, concluding with lessons from notable 2025 governance failures to equip participants with the tools to strengthen oversight and decision-making in a rapidly changing environment.
The series is delivered live online via Microsoft TEAMS and recorded where possible. Each webinar provides 1-hour of CPD.
Suitable For
This series is designed for board members, non-executive directors, senior executives, governance professionals, company secretaries, risk and compliance leaders, and those preparing for board-level responsibilities. It is suitable for professionals across all regulated sectors who want to strengthen their understanding of emerging governance expectations, enhance board effectiveness, and stay ahead of regulatory, strategic, and operational challenges in 2026.
Agenda
Board Oversight of Risk Management: Building an Effective Response Framework
02 March 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Board responsibilities for risk governance and an effective risk framework
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Assessing risk appetite, tolerance, and escalation processes
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Identifying and challenging assumptions, blind spots, and emerging risks
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Strengthening risk reporting and improving management information
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Building an integrated, forward-looking risk oversight approach
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The Board’s Role in Organisational Resilience: Preparing for the Unexpected
23 March 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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What “organisational resilience” means at board level
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Oversight of business continuity, crisis response, and recovery planning
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Challenging resilience assumptions and identifying vulnerabilities
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Indicators boards should monitor to assess preparedness
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Lessons from recent failures and real resilience case studies
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AI Oversight: how to build an effective response to the risks and opportunities provided by AI
27 April 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Understanding AI-related risks, opportunities, and organisational impacts
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Board responsibilities for AI governance, ethics, and accountability
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Evaluating AI models, data quality, and transparency
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Regulatory expectations and emerging global standards
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Practical oversight frameworks for managing AI safely and effectively
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Cyber Governance 2.0: How Prepared Boards Really Are
11 May 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Cyber threats and board-level responsibilities in 2026
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Assessing cyber resilience: key questions boards must ask
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Oversight of third-party and supply-chain cyber risks
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Effective crisis communication and incident response readiness
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Regulatory expectations and lessons from recent breaches
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Board Dynamics Under Pressure: When Good Boards Make Bad Decisions
01 June 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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How pressure, stress, and uncertainty affect board decision-making
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Recognising groupthink, bias, and behavioural patterns that distort judgement
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Strengthening challenge, debate, and psychological safety
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Improving information flow and decision-making processes
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Lessons from boards that failed under pressure
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Succession Planning Revisited: Are We Preparing the Right Leaders?
29 June 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Evaluating the effectiveness of current succession plans
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Identifying future-ready leadership competencies
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Talent pipeline development and board oversight
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Emergency and interim leadership planning
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Cultural, behavioural, and diversity considerations in leadership
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Culture at the Edge: When Values, Behaviour and Reality Don’t Match
14 September 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Understanding cultural drift and its governance implications
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Board tools for assessing cultural health and behavioural risk
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Indicators that values and behaviours are diverging
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Encouraging transparency, challenge, and psychological safety
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Lessons from organisations where culture failed
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ESG Without Illusions: What Boards Actually Need to Focus On
12 October 2026 | ! CPD Hours
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ESG expectations boards must meet in 2026
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Separating material issues from noise and box-ticking
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Ensuring credible, data-driven ESG reporting and oversight
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Aligning ESG priorities with strategy and risk appetite
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Avoiding greenwashing and governance pitfalls
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Board Information Quality: Fighting Complexity, Noise and Overload
03 November 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Characteristics of high-quality board information and MI
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Identifying gaps, noise, and red flags in reports
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Techniques to improve clarity, structure, and relevance
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How boards can challenge management on MI quality
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Aligning information flows with effective governance and oversight
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Case Studies in Governance Failure: What 2025 Taught Us
02 December 2026 | 1 CPD Hours
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Key governance failures from 2025 and what triggered them
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Weaknesses in risk oversight, culture, and decision-making
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Warning signs boards often miss or downplay
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How regulatory responses shaped expectations for 2026
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Practical steps boards can take to prevent similar failures
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