Helen Pitcher OBE, Chairman of Advanced Boardroom Excellence, was recently elected President of the Board of the INSEAD Directors Network and gave a series interviews sharing her background and thoughts for the network.

In the business world, the legacy of inadequate succession planning can include both a strategic mess and a large bill of financial expenses. Despite this, sadly there is no shortage of examples in the media headlines of the occasions when it happens, even with the best will in the world for exemplary corporate governance in our publicly listed boardrooms.