When do you tell the board your company might be insolvent?
Most directors wait too long to raise a solvency concern. The gap between first suspecting something is wrong and making it a formal board conversation is where a significant amount of director liability gets created. Here's how to navigate it.
NED Roles in SMEs and Startups: Why They Fail and What Works
The NED role carries the same legal weight in a five-person startup as it does with five hundred. The infrastructure does not. Here is what that gap looks like in practice, and what actually works.
What I learned doing the AICD course while my company was in crisis
I did the AICD Company Directors Course in 2022 while the company I directed was in serious trouble. Sitting in those sessions while simultaneously trying to keep the ATO at bay gave me a perspective on governance that no classroom exercise could have manufactured.
The five governance mistakes I watched kill a promising company — and how to spot them before it's too late
I watched a promising company die. Not suddenly, that's rarely how it goes. What killed it wasn't the market or the technology. It was governance. Five patterns, all documented, all avoidable. Here's what they looked like from the inside.