Deborah Wallace Columns

With over 20 years experience, Ms. Wallace draws on an unusually rich and varied skill set that is well suited to navigating the complexities of public, for-profit, and non-profit board consulting.

While clients appreciate Ms Wallace’s ability to quickly identify core issues that underlie chronic problems, as well as her ability to maintain a balanced perspective, it is her confident, no-nonsense approach to the work at hand that allows her to earn the trust and respect of her clients. Her candor, sharp insight, and ever-present sense of humor, together, provide clients with clear options for resolving issues. For her full bio click here.

June 16, 2008 The Business of Ethics

Source:Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics

Results from the 2007 Ethics Resource Center’s “National Business Ethics Survey”1 reveal a discouraging statistic: only 9% of US companies surveyed believe that they have strong ethical cultures. Further, despite a modest...[more]

June 16, 2008 DIRECTORS AS STRATEGISTS -- HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Source:Deborah E. Wallace, BrinkPoint Consulting

It should come as no surprise that greater involvement in company strategy is currently the number one priority for directors. What may come as a surprise, though, is just how little time directors spend actually working on...[more]

April 15, 2008 REDEFINING RISK: Move Over Liability, Here Comes An Asset

Source:Deborah Wallace

Today’s most successful businesses understand that defining and managing risk go far beyond a mandate for compliance. Rather than coping with risk as an inevitable drain on resources, these companies understand that risk,...[more]

March 11, 2008 Investor Relations: A Power Shift in the Making

Source:By Deborah Wallace - BrinkPoint Consulting

Investor Relations has become a lightening rod in the current Governance Reform movement. In an effort to have greater say in company performance, individual shareholders and institutional investors are engaged in major power...[more]

March 7, 2008 Sarbanes-Oxley Takes IT Front and Center; Information Technology Oversight: The Board's Newest Challenge

Source:By Deborah E. Wallace - BrinkPoint Consulting

Information technology is no longer a back-office function in which many companies marginalized, indeed often failed to recognize, its strategic potential. For decades it was an underutilized overhead expense, but as requirements...[more]

February 6, 2008 GOVERNANCE FIRM NAMES TOP 10 CHALLENGES FOR BOARDS IN 2008; BRINKPOINT CONSULTING SETS FOCUS FOR BOARDS AS RULES OF THE GAME CHANGE

Source:BrinkPoint Board Consulting Services

LINCOLN, MASS., FEBRUARY 6, 2008 – BrinkPoint Consulting LLC, providing comprehensive consulting services for boards, today announced its annual list of Top 10 Challenges for in 2008. The list serves as a guidepost for directors...[more]