Sound-Up Governance

Each week, we will release two illustrated definitions of corporate governance jargon in order of increasing complexity. In this instalment we have the definition of "committee chair". Check the episode thumbnail for an illustration by Nate Schmold.

Originally published April 24, 2023

What is Sound-Up Governance?

The real impact of corporate governance isn't about compliance or structure or policies, it's about the conditions that impact decision-making. Sound-Up Governance features fresh perspectives to help boards and executives to be a bit better tomorrow than they were yesterday.

A committee chair is the same as a board chair, except for a committee. Imagine there is a subset of your friend group who really likes to get together to have some super specific type of dinner. Maybe it’s pizza with not just pineapple on it, but lots of other types of fruit, too. The rest of your friends are happy to let your smaller group get together to specialize in fruity pizza. And if your job is to host the fruity pizza dinner parties, then that’s basically the same as being the chair of a specialized committee, remember?