Event Details

The Pentland Centre is holding a webinar on Generational Governance: Future-Proofing Organisations, delivered across three sessions to accommodate different time zones.

In this webinar, Professor Nick Barter, Professor Jan Bebbington and Dr Akihiro Omura will present the key findings of their recent report exploring generational governance, which surveyed 3,000 business leaders across Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom.

Generational governance describes arrangements whereby future generation leaders are part of corporate governance, with two main ways of implementation. A company might create a dedicated board made up of younger leaders who interact with a main board. Alternatively, main boards might self-consciously include younger members. In both cases, there is a desire to bring a more future orientated perspective to corporate governance and critical decision making by including those who will be around to see the outcomes of current decisions.

Governance becomes even more critical as we seek to understand and prepare for a future that will be different to our current times. In particular, we anticipate that the future will be more volatile than the present due to social and ecological changes that are being ‘baked into’ our economic system.

Many organisations are seeking to understand how to face this future and this report focuses on one mechanism by which a conversation can be held between current and future corporate leaders about sustainable transitions: that of generational governance.

Considering examples of generational governance in both political and corporate settings, these webinars will offer insights into attitudes towards generational governance, its potential role in supporting sustainable transitions and open up a wider conversation about how business leaders think about generational governance and the role it may play in future-proofing organisations.

You can read the report which informs the webinars here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/pentland-centre/GenerationalGovernanceFutureproofingorganisations.pdf

Three identical webinar sessions, open to all, are available to support wider global participation and reach audiences in different time zones. The first two are hosted by the Pentland Centre and the third session is hosted by Griffith University.

• First webinar: 8:00 - 9:00 BST/UTC+1 (please note that this session will be recorded) will be presented by Professor Nick Barter, Professor Jan Bebbington and Dr Akihiro Omura
• Second webinar: 16:00-17:00 BST/UTC+1 will be presented by Professor Jan Bebbington
• Third webinar: 23:00-00:00 BST/UTC+1 will be presented by Professor Nick Barter and Dr Akihiro Omura

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