Dear CEOs, Boards don’t fail from lack of updates; they fail from lack of insight. When EXCOs merely report activity, the board fills the strategic vacuum. I have seen it across sectors: talented executives getting second-guessed not because they are wrong, but because they never framed the right question. Our Future Ready Board Training is built to solve that. It equips your executive team to shape boardroom conversations, link decisions to strategy, and manage up, not just manage down. Strategy collapses when executives treat board papers like paperwork. This training helps your EXCO turn operational data into board-level intelligence anchored…

In the cattle corridor of Uganda, there’s an old saying: “He who leaves his kraal gate open invites the hyenas to feast.” One evening in Kiruhura, I watched a young boy, barely ten, tie a thin strand of banana fibre across the gate and claim the cows were safe. “That is how papa does it,” he said. By dawn, three cows were gone. No alarm, no lock, and just misplaced confidence disguised as tradition. This is how most boards handle risk. They assume the presence of a “risk register” is enough. That someone somewhere is doing the real watching. Like…