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Make Boards Work

Marc O. Stöckli 12 Folgen Okt 5, 2026

Make Boards Work is a business podcast aimed at people who want to raise the quality of their board work and governance. Host Marc O. Stöckli focuses on the real experiences, stories and insights of board members and executives. Episodes explore practical perspectives on how boards can function more effectively. The show invites listeners to contribute their own experiences and views.

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Make Boards Work - With Miranda Naiman Okt 5, 2026 00:39:20 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Miranda Naiman came on my podcast and shared how she built a board for her own company where she and her co-founders were deliberately outnumbered.Every entrepreneur asks her the same thing: why would you do that to yourself?Her answer: because we could only take the busi

Make Boards Work - With Anna Lecat Sep 7, 2026 00:49:39 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Anna Lecat sat down with me on the podcast and dismantled boardroom polite culture in one sentence:"Every conversation you do not have is a decision you haven't made."We spent decades watching directors lean on pre-board dinners to build trust. Good wine, ea

Make Boards Work - With Andrew Smith Aug 17, 2026 00:39:10 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Says Andrew: "When Tiger Global invested in 2011, I was convinced someone would walk in and take control. They didn't. For years, our 'board meetings' were an email update and a reply that said 'looks good, keep going.' I thought that was wonderfu

Make Boards Work - With Gordon Rapkin Jul 28, 2026 00:40:32 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Gordon's phone rang. It was the lead investor. First words: "Please don't quit."Gordon Rapkin sat down with Marc O.Stöckli on the Make Boards Work podcast and told that full story, including what happened next, which turned out to be the smartest thing a

Make Boards Work - With Alejandra Martinez Jul 6, 2026 00:41:11 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Alejandra has been an independent board director for almost two decades now. Across large banks, fintechs, family businesses in Mexico and Latin America. And if there's one thing she has learned, it's this: your conviction is your reputation.A chairman of a large

Make Boards Work - With Jan Dzulko Jun 23, 2026 00:43:31 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.When Jan started Everphone ten years ago, he didn't think he'd still be the CEO. But here he is. Eight funding rounds. North of 100 million in revenues. And a board that's changed so completely from year one to year ten that it barely resembles the same instit

Make Boards Work - With Manuel Hinz Jun 9, 2026 00:50:08 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.Manuel has been running a PE-backed roll-up in education. Capital was the easy part.He scaled from around 50 people to nearly 250 in two years. The deals weren't the bottleneck. The money wasn't either. The people were.

Make Boards Work - With Joanna Ling Mai 26, 2026 00:43:36 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level.We got into something Joanna does not usually talk about publicly. What it's actually like running a family business where the board is your cousins, your siblings, your parents, your uncles, and your in-laws.In a family board, the most important thing isn't the n

Make Boards Work - With Ritesh Doshi Mai 12, 2026 00:40:30 Make Boards Work aspires to be the number one business podcast for all those who aim to take their board work to the next level. Ritesh Doshi served on someone else's board for 7 years before he built his own.7 years in someone else's room, noticing what worked and what didn't.When he eventually resigned from that seat to focus on his business, he asked the person he'd been advisin

Make Boards Work - With Charles "Chuck" Bender Mai 1, 2026 00:44:39 We covered a lot of ground - what the Navy taught Chuck about running a company, why he builds his advisory boards specifically around his blind spots, and the difference between healthy ego and toxic ego in the boardroom.One thing we kept coming back to: the worst place to be as a CEO isn't uncertainty. It's being absolutely certain and absolutely wrong. That's where a good board earn

Make Boards Work - With Stefan Kirchhofer Apr 10, 2026 00:55:03 We got into something I don't think gets discussed enough, how governance actually works (and often doesn't) in family businesses. The unwritten rules. The baggage. The sibling who was bad at math now running finance. We also talked about what Stefan has come to believe is the crowning moment of entrepreneurship: knowing when to let go. When you're no longer the best owner.And a line Stefan emphas

Make Boards Work - With Henri Kuehnert Mär 24, 2026 00:36:27 We talked about what actually happens inside boardrooms when things go wrong. The ego games. The power imbalances. The moments where trust breaks and nobody recovers.Henri shared a line he has been saying for years: there are only two ways to have a real voice on a board. As chairperson. Or as the one board member closest to the founder.Everything else is decoration.We also got into the prisoner's