by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 25, 2026
I have been in enough boardrooms to know the difference between the board that talks about trust and the board that builds it. The ones that talk about it usually have a policy. Maybe a code of ethics framed near the front door. A sustainability report with careful...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 23, 2026
Every CFO who signs a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 certification this quarter is certifying something about AI capability claims that most disclosure control environments were not built to verify. SOX Section 302 requires the CEO and CFO to certify that disclosure...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 20, 2026
The most dangerous governance failure in 2026 is not the failure to innovate. It is the failure to verify. Boards that have spent the last three years building AI governance declarations (responsible AI policies, ethics pledges, AI principles statements) and treated...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 18, 2026
A board chair I have known for years called me the week the Colorado legislature voted to repeal the law everyone had been preparing for. He was relieved, and he wanted me to share the relief. The deadline that had been sitting on his calendar since last winter, the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 15, 2026
On May 14, a state legislature did something that looked, on its surface, like a reprieve for boards. Colorado repealed and replaced the law it had spent two years building. The Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, the first comprehensive state framework in the...