Experienced leader in corporate governance and business ethics focusing on financial services and community banking. Specializing in transitioning private boards to public boards, evaluating board nominating committees & board composition, assessing shareholder activism, proxy disclosures, ESG and privacy issues. Helped develop governance functions from the ground up for a corporation and multiple nonprofits and have served on or chaired multiple board committees, including audit and nominating, governance and succession planning. Authored two recent books: Giving Voice to Values in the Boardroom and Business & Society: Ethical, Legal and Digital Environments. Published thought leadership and data-driven analysis in Sloan Management Review and Harvard Business Review. Widely cited in the media on governance issues including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Institutional Investor, The Boston Globe, Boston Business Journal, Compliance Week, CNN, Forbes, Reuters, NPR's Marketplace report. Conducted executive and board training sessions on understanding ESG and shareholder activism and optimal nominating and governance committee procedures, creating an ethical culture, and avoiding conflicts of interest.Founding director of the Harold S. Geneen Institute of Corporate Governance - focusing on bringing research to practice. Recent projects include analyzing firms' nominating committee disclosures on gender and diversity and shareholder resolution proposals and firms' disclosure of material information. Former executive in the banking, financial services and securities industries. Actively involved in the Private Directors Association, Society for Corporate Governance, 50/50 Women on Boards, the Boston Club and National Association of Corporate Directors. Fulbright Scholar. Conversational Spanish.Specialties include: Nominating Committees Shareholder ActivismConflicts of InterestPrivacy, Data, FintechCorporate Ethical and Legal Issues Corporate Information Disclosure