My musings on my favourite snippets about how to be a curious director over the Institute of Directors conference in May 2024 - what a great 2 days of content (and more of my top 5's to come...). I didn’t resonate with everything I heard, but that’s the point right? In order to grow we need to be stretched out of our comfort zones.

From Peter Gleason:
- Do we understand the difference between being curious and being sceptical? Directors should ask deep questions from both perspectives depending on the context and stay in a state of chronic unease (ref Andrew Hopkins)
- Directors can connect the dots between their different areas of work for each board they sit on – these random connections can be so valuable to teams who have deep industry knowledge but may not cross industries as governors do.
- Can boards be a team too or are they just a group of people meeting occasionally? How can chairs drive the culture of the board in tandem with the CE driving the culture of the organisation?

From the panel discussion with Matt Ensor, Liz MacPherson, Alistair Miller and Hillary Walton:
- Privacy (of data) builds trust, trust builds space to innovate. This reminds me of my Aha moment 'everything moves at the speed of trust'. It's just so central!

From Scott Mason:
- Turning (climate) crisis into opportunity: the way to move forward is to get people excited about the positive innovation of change to practice, not disillusioned about how much work there is yet to do. As directors we need to watch our limiting language in a time of ‘permacrisis’.