How Close Is Too Close?
Examining when proximity to management enhances oversight, and when it compromises it.
Private Company Director - March 2026
Building Smarter Private Company Boards
Cover Package
What Private and Family Company Boards Need in Their Next CEO
Why directors must rethink CEO leadership traits, succession planning and fit in a world where volatility is the norm.
The Art of Board Assessment and Refreshment
Why having the right minds at the table has never been more essential to success.
Rethinking Board Composition in Family and Private Companies
The right mix of directors depends on purpose, ownership, where the business is headed and more.
From Guardrails to Growth: The Board’s Expanding Strategic Role
Guardrails protect the enterprise and growth determines its future. The most effective boards design operating models that ensure both.
How Private Company Boards Turn Risks into Opportunities
How boards can move enterprise risk management beyond defense to drive smarter strategy and value creation.
Features
The “So What?” of Shareholder Objectives
How boards turn shareholder objectives into real performance — or let them quietly erode.
The Adaptive Director
How to master governance at the intersection of AI, geopolitics and uncertainty.
Columns
Balancing Coaching and Oversight
Great boards understand that support and accountability are not opposites, but they are not interchangeable either.
One Risk After Another
Boards are confronting a wave of geopolitical, technological and reputational threats, and responding by becoming more disciplined, more strategic and more professionalized than ever.
Departments
What Boards Must Do When Business Performance “Uncomfortably Settles”
How directors can confront chronic underperformance without crossing into micromanagement.
Directors to Watch
Directors to Watch 2026: Christine Gallagher
Private Company Director’s Directors to Watch 2026 highlights 29 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Private Company Governance: From Oversight to Execution
Directors are sharpening discipline, stress-testing strategy and redefining how they add value.
Top of the Agenda
Voices of Experience: CEO Succession Planning
Leading private company directors on succession planning in an increasingly unpredictable world.
Meet the Director: Steven Zirkel
The director of The Plastek Group and Electri-Cord Manufacturing on making the complex simple.
