Boardroom Diversity and the Black Corporate Board Readiness Program

Boardroom Governance with Evan Epstein

(0:00) Intro.

(1:25) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel.

(2:11) Start of interview.

(2:56) Zain Oke's origin story.

(5:08) Dianna Jones's origin story.

(8:25) Dennis Lanham's origin story.

(12:00) How executive education works (as opposed to degree conferring programs)

(14:22) On the origin and mission of the Black Corporate Board Readiness (BCBR) program at Santa Clara University.

(17:41) On the role of community and mentorship at BCBR.

(22:11) On lawyers serving on corporate boards.

(30:50) On the legal challenges to SB-826 and AB-979 in California (board diversity laws).

(40:00) On the politicization of the boardroom and the push back on ESG and DEI.

(51:23) Recommendations for executives seeking to join their first board, and for boards considering diverse candidates.

You can follow Evan on social media at:

X: @evanepstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/

Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/

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Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License