Elizabeth Armstrong

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Dr Elizabeth Armstrong is Principal of Ithaca Impact. She is a social impact specialist working with private and publicly listed companies, chambers of commerce, and industry bodies to identify and support their delivery of genuine, strategically relevant corporate social and environmental impact.

Elizabeth Armstrong

Dec 03 2022

It's Time - Boards need new skills to address wicked problems

Illuminem Voices

Corporate Governance · ESG

There is no doubt that Boards globally are increasingly attuned to the drums declaring the importance of ESG. While this attentiveness is welcome, it doesn’t yet go far enough. Geopolitical and conflict risk is spiking, social expectations have shifted, and traditional boardrooms are ill-prepared to tackle the risks - and the opportunities - arising. The inter-related challenges facing Boards extend well beyond the ‘ESG’ basics and few Boards have yet positioned themselves to strategically respond.