Uncharted Spaces

What happens in boardrooms? How are decisions made? How can board directors keep on top of rapid, unpredictable change in the business environment? How are boards and business leaders changing to remain relevant for the future? Whether you are a business leader or a board director, this book will help your stewardship of businesses, as you navigate the dynamic world of strategic decisions in the face of complex challenges and rich opportunities. Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is an experienced independent non-executive director and committee chair. She has served on boards of listed and privately held companies, a university and an LLP. She brings over three decades of multi-sector experience and multidisciplinary training to questions of technology and innovation, risk and foresight, and governance practices.

Shefaly Yogendra, PhD is an independent non-executive director with experience of professional manager and owner led businesses, a range of ownership structures from listed to LLP, and several sectors including financial services, asset management, energy, higher education, professional services and technology. Shefaly has also chaired ESG, Remuneration, Nomination, and Audit & Risk committees. Her well-rounded board experience follows a career in technology, most recently as the COO of an AI company. She was invited to advise the government on the UK's AI strategy and serves on the Enterprise and Fundraising Committees of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Shefaly helps make emerging technologies understandable and business-relevant for boards and executives alike, and is a popular keynote speaker and podcast guest on themes such as AI, investment, decision making and risk. Her keynote on bullying on boards at Chartered Governance Institute's flagship event remains their most popular rewatched talk. Her podcast appearances include Enter the Boardroom's 'Decision making in boardrooms' and Beyond the Algorithm's 'Are boards ready for AI?'. Since 2017 she has been a committed pro bono speaker for Speakers for Schools. Originally trained as an electronics engineer, Shefaly has further studied management and technology policy, finishing with a PhD in comparative political decision making at the University of Cambridge. Shefaly was named one of the FTSE '100 Women to Watch' in 2016, the year she began as a Board Apprentice on the board of a JP Morgan fund board which she was subsequently invited to join