{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Boardroom Path","title":"Is Your Board Actually Fit for Purpose?","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2909,"description":"What separates a board that merely complies from one that is genuinely fit for purpose? In this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Sam Allen, founder of Sam Allen Associates and an accredited board performance practitioner, about why external board effectiveness reviews are a strategic advantage rather than a regulatory chore.Sam explains how a rigorous review measures behaviour as well as governance, surfacing where boards are misaligned on strategy, core competence and key risks. She makes the case for assessing whether a board has the right skills for where the business is going, not just where it has been, and why courage and curiosity matter more than airtime.The conversation lands firmly in the present. With the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack estimated to have cost the UK economy around 1.9 billion pounds (Cyber Monitoring Centre, via The Register), Sam argues cyber resilience and recovery are now unavoidable board questions, alongside the FRC's new Provision 29 on internal controls. A practical listen for anyone going plural.Sam Allen: Sam Allen is the founder and Managing Partner of Sam Allen Associates, a boutique board services and executive search firm working with FTSE, private and private-equity backed businesses across the UK and internationally. She leads externally facilitated board and committee effectiveness reviews that blend rigorous governance frameworks with behavioural insight. Before founding the firm, Sam held leadership roles at international search firms Whitehead Mann and Boyden, and earlier spent around 15 years across Sainsbury's, Dunhill and Greene King plc, where she served on the board. She is an accredited board performance practitioner with a Diploma in Corporate Governance from the Chartered Governance Institute UK & Ireland, an MA in Employment Law, and is an accredited commercial mediator. Sam Allen Associates is one of a small number of firms accredited by the Chartered Governance Institute UK &...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/G1uU7T2K5h04MQMPyxv_eCIOS7fQfv5ldjQOH6K6dHU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MzQ1/YWYwZWI5NzIzMmIz/NzEyYWJiNTJhZGEy/NTUzOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}