QCA Corporate Governance Code Workshop (3.5 hrs of CPD)

£1,150.00

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Our Corporate Governance Code Workshop will explore the application of the latest QCA Corporate Governance Code 2023. This interactive workshop will explore how the new Code can be used and applied effectively.

Please register your interest to Claire Patterson for a virtual workshop on an alternative date if you are unable to attend in person. 

This event is for board directors, company secretaries and NOMADs

Event Details

Date: 19 March, 2025

Start time: 09:00 GMT

End time: 15:30 GMT

Venue: City of London location

Phone: +44 (0)20 7600 3745

Email: mail@theqca.com

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The Corporate Governance Code Workshop will explore the application of the latest QCA Corporate Governance Code and related guidance and show how it can be used and applied effectively.

Updates to the QCA Code provide a fresh perspective to latest governance developments. A better appreciation of good governance will help participants to review and assess how the company puts into practice a worthwhile, effective and flexible governance model.

This in-person workshop will include speakers from NEDA, the QCA and the working group of experts who developed the Code who will give their different perspectives, as well as sharing practical examples and case studies.

Learning outcomes:

  • Consideration of the board level input needed to establish and deliver quoted company corporate governance standards and frameworks.
  • Review the application of the Code and guidelines relevant to the company’s own story rather than adopting ‘boilerplate’ responses.
  • Understand how to gauge and deal with changing stakeholder expectations.
  • Determine the ability to integrate governance considerations into the broader business strategy, culture, performance, reporting and risk working practices.
  • Provide practical insight into undertaking health check reviews and the use of other assurance approaches to make sure that the company is learning and developing a continuous improvement process.
Louis Cooper, Governance, Risk and Assurance Adviser
Louis is a longstanding member of the QCA Corporate Governance Expert Group having been involved for over 17 years and has been a member of the working groups that developed the QCA Corporate Governance Code, the QCA Audit Committee Guide and the QCA ES Guide. Louis is one of the co-founders of the Non-Executive Directors’ Association (‘NEDA’) and for 10 years up to May 2024 was the CEO. NEDA is the members Association that was set up in 2006-7 to support the specific needs and demands of Non-Executive Directors and Trustees across all sectors and at each stage of their ‘life-cycle’. Louis led the NED and board training, education and advisory services; he also oversaw the publication the ‘Non-Executive Directors’ Handbook’ (now in its 6th Edition) and helped to establish the annual Non-Executive Director Awards, now in its 19th year.
Louis is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW Fellow) and has over 25 years’ experience in governance, risk and assurance services in public practice where he has worked for all of the ‘Big 4’ Accounting firms. For 6 years was a Partner at the UK top 10 audit firm Crowe Clark Whitehill (now Crowe UK), where he led the Risk & Assurance team. He now runs his own consultancy firm Risk & Control Services, as well as having a portfolio of activities that include acting as an Associate with the Institute of Risk Management; working in partnership with WB Directors’ providing independent Board Performance and Effectiveness Evaluation services; and acting as a Board Adviser to the Cayman Islands Financial Services Institute.

Ian Greenwood, Associate Client Partner, Korn Ferry

Ian joined Korn Ferry in 2017.  He has extensive experience advising remuneration committees on all elements of their remit, including stakeholder engagement, benchmarking, adapting to new regulatory developments and ensuring that decisions on executive and non-executive director pay take into account the interests of all relevant parties.  He works with a number of major UK-listed companies in navigating the regulatory and investor landscape when designing optimum remuneration policies and incentive schemes.

Ian’s previous role was as head of the UK research team at ISS, a major proxy advisory service, where he led a team of analysts providing executive pay and governance research on UK companies to a client base of major international institutional investors.  Earlier in his career, Ian worked in corporate governance roles at Hermes Investment Management and the National Association of Pension Funds.

Ian is a Politics graduate and has a masters degree in International Politics.  Ian is a member of the Corporate Governance Expert Group of the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA).

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