Articles by Elizabeth Jameson

Elizabeth founded Board Matters in 2002 along with its associated governance legal practice, Board Matters Legal. Elizabeth has provided corporate legal and governance assistance and advice, with a real-life ‘practising director’ perspective, to a large range of companies, organisations, and industries for well over 20 years. This has included not-for-profit boards as well as listed, private and public sector boards. She also maintains an active portfolio of directorships, presently with RACQ, Qld Theatre Company and the Board of Taxation, and chairs the board of Brisbane Girls’ Grammar.

Governance

A New Revolution: Breaking Down the Governance Bastille?

Do you ever wonder why everyone keeps telling us in NFP governance, that ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ and then proceeds to tell us precisely what ‘best practice’ dictates about how we must govern? The body of ‘best practice’ lore usually comes from asking questions about how things are done in comparable organisations. For a start, the answers are too often based on looking at how things are done in non-comparable large listed corporations.