The Boardroom Coach

The Boardroom Coach: The audio briefing from John McLaughlan, Non Executive Director, Executive Coach and Board Advisor. Each episode takes one live signal from business, leadership, or organisational life and examines what it really reveals beneath the surface. Not just what happened, but what it means for judgement, accountability, behaviour, and consequence. theboardroomcoach.substack.com

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  AI and Critical Thinking: Protecting Leadership Judgement

  Aug 17, 20267 minS0

  <p>Psychology and workplace research is beginning to raise a more difficult question about AI: whether visible performance can improve faster than the judgement supporting it.</p><p>That distinction matters because AI can make work look better very quickly. The harder question is whether the person producing it is still exercising enough independent judgement to challenge, reconstruct and defend the conclusion.</p><p>What’s Happening</p><p>Research is beginning to distinguish between AI that assists thinking and AI that progressively removes the need to think through the task.</p><p>A 2025 Microsoft Research study surveyed 319 knowledge workers an...

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  Why Board Independence Is Not Enough During a Corporate Turnaround

  Jul 22, 20265 minS0

  <p>What’s Happening</p><p>Diageo chair Sir John Manzoni is reportedly looking to reshape the company’s board by recruiting non-executive directors with commercial experience in the drinks industry or drinks distribution.</p><p>The Financial Times reported on 21 July 2026 that Manzoni was seeking industry “heavyweights” as Diageo confronts a serious downturn in spirits demand. The report said the company’s 11-person board has only one non-executive director who has previously held a senior role at a spirits company. It also suggested that Manzoni wants directors with enough industry knowledge and standing to challenge new chief executive Sir Dave Lewis...

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  AI Is Reshaping C-Suite Roles, But Accountability Is the Harder Test

  Jun 29, 20265 minS0

  <p>What’s Happening</p><p>Harvard Business Review has framed AI as a change affecting the top of the organisation, not only junior roles or operational teams. Its June 2026 piece argues that senior leadership, executive, C-suite and board responsibilities are being redefined by AI adoption. (Harvard Business Review)</p><p>“AI is reshaping C-suite and board roles.”</p><p>What’s Being Said</p><p>The wider executive conversation is moving in the same direction. The Conference Board’s 2026 C-Suite Outlook says AI has moved from the margins of corporate strategy to the centre of executive decision-making, with leaders trying to...

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  AI, Social Media Bans and The Capture: How Institutions Redesign Reality

  Jun 20, 20266 minS0

  <p>““Correction”, a covert practice that uses deepfake technology to manipulate evidence, perception and public reality.”</p><p></p><p>Argentina’s AI-company proposal, the UK’s under-16 social media ban and the BBC’s The Capture all point to the same leadership pattern: institutions relaxing ethical boundaries when pressure, protection or profit make the compromise feel justified.</p><p>AI governance, institutional manipulation and the ethical drift from board decisions to government policy.</p><p>What’s Happening</p><p>Argentina is exploring a legal framework that could allow AI-operated “non-human companies” to exist with limited liability. The proposal has been framed as p...

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  How to Recognise When Your Organisation Is Filtering Out Challenge, And What You Can Do

  Jun 4, 202613 minS0

  <p>What happens when challenge is present, but no longer powerful enough to change the decision.</p><p>What’s Happening</p><p>A current governance debate in the US has raised concern that corporate boards may have greater power to exclude shareholder proposals from annual general meetings. Reuters reports that ESG investors fear this could weaken one of the routes through which smaller investors, NGOs and minority voices surface risks before they become formally visible. Supporters argue that tighter control protects companies from distraction, cost and activist overreach. (Reuters)</p><p>The executive coaching signal sits underneath the governance ar...

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