{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Boardroom Path","title":"Shefaly Yogendra on Boardroom Decision Making under Uncertainty","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3464,"description":"Can a board certify judgement, or does judgement only show up under pressure?\nIn this episode of The Boardroom Path, host Ralph Grayson speaks with Dr Shefaly Yogendra, board director, decision-making researcher and author of Uncharted Spaces: Reset the Agenda. Reimagine the Boardroom, about how boards decide when precedent runs out. Shefaly argues that most boards were designed for a world that no longer exists, that certification gives a novice a baseline but cannot produce boardroom behaviour, and that long experience turns into a liability the moment it is treated as a monolith rather than a set of relevant parts.\nThe timing matters. A survey of 104 US public company directors found 82% had used generative AI in their board work in the past six months, while only 6% reported a formal policy for board use, according to Corporate Board Member and the Diligent Institute. Shefaly's warning about everyone querying the same tool the same way, and losing the edges of cognitive diversity, lands squarely in that gap.The conversation also covers messy meetings, board cadence, psychometrics, bravery and how to plan for black sky events.\nShefaly Yogendra: Dr Shefaly Yogendra is a board director, adviser and author working across governance, technology and decision making. She is Senior Independent Director of Temple Bar Investment Trust, where she has served on the board since 2019 and chaired the nomination committee, and a non-executive director of JPMorgan US Smaller Companies Investment Trust, Harmony Energy Income Trust and Witan Investment Services. She has served as an independent governor of London Metropolitan University, chairing its audit and risk committee, and sits on the board of advisers of the Harvard Data Science Review. Her executive career began in technology at HCL and included the role of chief operating officer at explainable AI company Ditto AI. She holds a PhD in decision making from Cambridge, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, a master's in technology...","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}