In this episode of Governance Bites, David Turner and Mark Banicevich explore how boards can move beyond simply managing risk to actively capturing opportunity. They discuss why agility and speed of decision-making are becoming critical competitive advantages, how to avoid analysis paralysis, and how boards can balance oversight with management autonomy. They also examine dynamic strategy, psychological safety, learning from failure, and the role of communication and trust between chairs and CEOs. David Turner shares practical advice for new directors, including understanding their responsibilities, asking better questions, learning the business, and finding an experienced mentor.
David Turner is a governance and risk leader with more than 20 years’ experience helping boards, executives and organisations strengthen decision-making, resilience and leadership. He is co-founder of CATO (https://www.catoltd.com/) and turnerspeaks (https://www.turnerspeaks.com/). As Chief Executive Officer of RiskNZ (https://www.risknz.org.nz/) and a former Deputy Chair, he has been instrumental in advancing risk governance across New Zealand while contributing to Australian and New Zealand Standards committees. David’s career spans military service, enterprise risk management, governance advisory and executive leadership, with experience across government, defence, infrastructure and major corporate organisations. His expertise in organisational psychology and human behaviour brings a distinctive perspective to board governance, helping directors better understand the human factors that influence risk, culture, strategy and organisational performance.
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