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Updated October 2024

Thought Leadership From Our Local Chapter Partners

To support our members in adapting to the dynamic business landscape, we have compiled a valuable collection of content and thought leadership from our chapter partners. These resources are designed to provide insights and guidance for navigating the ever-changing business environments we encounter.

ACCENTURE

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Across more than 40 industries, they offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services and Song. Their 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, serving clients in more than 120 countries.

• Commercial banking top trends for 2024
• How is AI shaping the cybersecurity strategies of tomorrow?
• The CHRO as a growth executive
• Time for some good news in cybersecurity

BAKER BOTTS

Baker Botts is a full-service, leading global law firm, recognized for their understanding of the industries they serve. They have a long, distinguished tradition of service to their clients since the 1840s. During the earliest days of Houston, Baker Botts represented the burgeoning industries of cotton merchants, brokers and railroads.

• 10 Principles That Will Guide the New Texas Business Courts in Breach of Fiduciary Duty Litigation
• AI Counsel Code Podcast | AI in SEC Disclosures
• Bits and Bytes Session 4: Board of Directors' Role in Incident Response
• Navigating Ethical AI Guidelines from the ABA and State Bars

GHD DIGITAL

GHD Digital is GHD’s digital transformation business, dedicated to helping clients unlock innovation, embrace the future and change communities for good. They help solve complex challenges in the energy, water, transport and infrastructure sectors, and specialize in areas such as AI, cyber and risk, immersive reality, automation, and innovation advisory. Together, GHD Digital and your company can create positive change for generations to come.

• From potential to reality: generative AI’s impact on business
• Gearing up for the green transition with digital transformation
• Generative AI Transforming the AEC industry
• Transform - Tomorrow's thinking, today (Podcast Series)

KPMG

One of the world's leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm in the United States. KPMG's leading the industry in new and exciting ways. Their size and strength make KPMG much more agile and responsive to changing trends.

• 2024 Energy, Natural Resources and Chemicals CEO Outlook
• Disruption Decoded: Private company survey results
• The C-suite’s newest member? The Chief AI Officer
• Takeaways from the 2024 proxy season (Podcast)

CROWE

Crowe is a public accounting, consulting, and technology firm with offices around the world. Connecting deep industry and specialized knowledge with innovative technology, their dedicated professionals create value for clients with integrity and objectivity. By listening to their clients, they learn about their businesses and their unique challenges.

• Metals 2030 and beyond: Using Technology To Sustain Growth
• October 2024 financial reporting, governance, and risk management 
• The 5 Essential Elements of Cybersecurity

DELOITTE

Deloitte LLP provides industry-leading audit & assurance, consulting, tax, and risk and financial advisory services to many of the world's most admired brands, including more than 85 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 6,000 private and middle market companies.

• Europeans are optimistic about generative AI but there is more to do to close the trust gap
• Governance of AI: A critical imperative for today’s boards
• When people thrive, business thrives: The case for human sustainability

EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

• Cybersecurity disclosures: what companies shared about cyber risks in 2024
• Public policy spotlight: Six key issues for 2024 US elections
• Quarterly update for audit committees

FGS GLOBAL

FGS Global is the strategic advisor for the stakeholder economy. Winning support across audiences in a complex, fast-moving, interconnected world is more important than ever. To succeed, you need sound strategic advice, deep experience, a 360-degree perspective, real-time intelligence, and flawless execution. With the right people and the right tools, you can seize opportunities and confront challenges.

• Navigating the DEI Backlash
• New SEC Cyber Disclosures Met With a Yawn - Even as Reputational Perils Lurk
• The Cyber Threat Landscape: Staying One Step Ahead

GRANT THORNTON

Grant Thornton has what it takes to help you drive excellence throughout your business. They collaborate, deliberate and innovate. Their people speak up, get creative and shake up the status quo.

• Ascend to new heights with AI guardrails
• Hands-on learning aids GenAI governance
• Unlocking value through internal audit at private companies

HARDEE INVESTMENT GROUP

The Premier Advisory Group focused on navigating a seamless integration of personal wealth management and corporate executive service needs, so you may live the lifestyle you desire.

• Exploring the impacts of AI and GenAI across industries
• Family offices shift outlook from caution to optimism
• The price of Fed rate cut success is steep, but not too steep

HEIDRICK & STRUGGLES

At Heidrick & Struggles, everything they do is guided by their purpose: We help our client change the world, one leadership team at a time.

• 2024 Global Chief Information Security Officer Organization and Compensation Survey
• Special feature: Neurodiversity in the workplace—what executives should know
• Too aware to fail

HOLLAND & KNIGHT

Holland & Knight is a global law firm with approximately 1,600 lawyers and other professionals in 30 offices worldwide. The firm's lawyers and advisors provide representation in litigation, corporate and finance, real estate and governmental matters. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with efficient access to attorneys throughout the firm.

• A Closer Look at California's Recently Passed Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024
• Commercial Parties, Transactional Lawyers and Litigators Beware: California Law Has Changed
• Impact of the Corporate Transparency Act on Business Aviation and Fast Approaching Deadlines

LOCKTON

Lockton is a global professional services firm with 6,500 Associates who advise clients on protecting their people, property, and reputations. Lockton has grown to become the world's largest privately held, independent insurance broker by helping clients achieve their business objectives.

• Law firms: digital assets and blockchain risks
• Singapore restricts use of EORs by foreign companies and increases Employment Pass qualifying salary
• Taking AI Risk Management to the Next Level

MERIDIAN COMPENSATION PARTNERS

Meridian Compensation Partners delivers effective solutions and independent advice in executive compensation and corporate governance consulting. Meridian provides management, boards and compensation committees at public and private corporations with services that include board level advisory services, compensation program design, research and competitive market intelligence on executive pay and governance matters.

• 2024 Meridian Corporate Governance and Incentive Design Survey
• Effective Goal Setting for Incentive Plans
• Principles in Addressing the Unexpected Events

PEARL MEYER

Pearl Meyer is the leading advisor to boards and senior management helping organizations build, develop, and reward great leadership teams that drive long-term success. Their strategy-driven compensation and leadership consulting services act as catalysts for value creation and competitive advantage, addressing critical links between people and outcomes.

• 2024’s Top Five Proactive Conversation Starters for Fall Compensation Committee Meetings
• Can Improved Communication About Executive Compensation Pay Off?
• Looking Ahead to Executive Pay Practices/Design in 2025

PRENG & ASSOCIATES

Preng & Associates was founded in 1980 with the goal of becoming the leading international executive search firm focused on the unique requirements of the energy industry. Today, they are pleased to be recognized as the most respected executive and board search firm in the global energy industry.

• North Dakota Industrial Commission Appoints Nathan Anderson as Mineral Resources Director
• Ring Energy Updates Management Team with Preng & Associates

RUSSELL REYNOLDS ASSOCIATES

Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) is a management consulting firm. Established in 1969, the firm assists international and domestic companies develop leaders, assess business processes, and recruit new executives. It provides leadership, advisory, and executive recruiting services.

• Create A Next-Generation Board
• Unlock The True Value of Technology
• Powering the Shift: How CEOs from Hard-to-Abate Industries are Decarbonizing their Value Chains