{"id":17739,"date":"2026-07-17T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:58:32","slug":"the-era-of-the-generalist-board-director-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"The era of the generalist board director is over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou guys are trying to play in a baseball game. The game hasn\u2019t even started for you yet. Other companies are in the sixth inning, and you\u2019re sitting on the benches waiting for the game to start,\u201d said Carol Leaman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an advisor sitting on several boards, she\u2019s seeing the same conversation on repeat. Boards of directors are asking how to bring AI into the business, years after they should\u2019ve been asking about their data, models, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a panel discussion at the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI) Innovation Governance Summit 2026, Leaman used the baseball analogy to describe a strategy meeting from a few weeks ago. A large, established company in a traditional industry was still treating AI like next year\u2019s problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They wanted to play the game, but they\u2019re stuck in the dugout. A CIO can bring a serious AI architecture issue, data governance issue, or vendor risk to the board, and lose the room if the directors don\u2019t understand the decision in front of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joined by Jim Balsillie, CCI chair and Carol Wilding, president and CEO of CPA Ontario, the panel made the case that most directors don\u2019t understand the technology and data decisions they\u2019re supposed to be governing, at exactly the moment Canada can least afford it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe global economy has undergone an unprecedented 40-year transformation, where wealth, power, and security are rooted in the ownership and control of intangible assets: IP and data AI,\u201d explained Balsillie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Balsillie.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856070\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992793575987737;width:1026px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Balsillie.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Balsillie-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Balsillie-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jim Balsillie, Chair, CCI. <em>Photo by Connor Dudgeon Photo, courtesy of Council of Canadian Innovators<\/em><br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Balsillie warned the room, the era of relying on \u2018general business judgment\u2019 is over.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a hard point to argue with, since, as he said, intangible assets make up 90% of all business value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These assets that now decide who competes and who gets left behind, with IP and the AI built on top of it, are what most Canadian boards are least equipped to govern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directors were trained to read a balance sheet and make sure the right mix of professions and sectors had a seat at the board table. Now they\u2019re being asked to govern data sovereignty, the AI models the business runs on, and tokenization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many simply can\u2019t, leaving Canadian companies acutely exposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. is rapidly weaponizing AI, IP, and data as core instruments of national power, while, according to Balsillie, Canada\u2019s economic thinking remains structurally rooted in the 1970s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology leaders answering to these boards can bring a critical, survival-level AI strategy to the table and still lose the room simply because the directors don\u2019t understand the game being played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s boards need to have some degree of technical knowledge, according to the panellists. It\u2019s a governance blind spot that needs to be at the top of a company\u2019s to-do list.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-the-economy-has-moved-but-governance-hasn-t-caught-up\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">The economy has moved, but governance hasn\u2019t caught up<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is an undercurrent going on here globally that, as board members, you must pay attention to, and then bring that knowledge and experience to the boards that you\u2019re on, and play the game,\u201d said Leaman. \u201cIt is a very intense game that has started, and all of our companies need to be playing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the United States withdrew from 66 multilateral institutions in January, it kept its seat at three: the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These bodies write the rules that decide how technology from different makers works together. According to Balsillie, whoever shapes those rules can build their own patents into them, so everyone else ends up licensing that technology to stay compatible. For a Canadian company, that means the cost of interoperating, and the terms, get set by someone else.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sees the same play in USMCA, another lever the US is using to hold its lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe digital architecture is a highly technical layer of the economy that Canada mismanaged in USMCA, which was more capitulation than negotiation, disproportionately benefiting Silicon Valley,\u201d said Balsillie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaman told directors to treat a recent speech as mandatory reading. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent set out five strategic \u201cthrusts\u201d or pillars the American government is focused on: domestic manufacturing, reciprocity in trade, writing the global rules on AI and trade, dollar dominance, and broader share of prosperity among Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s having a massive impact on the rest of the world, including Canada,\u201d said Leaman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CCI-IGP-2026-35-Leaman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856074\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992793575987737;width:1024px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CCI-IGP-2026-35-Leaman.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CCI-IGP-2026-35-Leaman-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CCI-IGP-2026-35-Leaman-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carol Leaman, advisor and board member. <em>Photo by Connor Dudgeon Photo, courtesy of Council of Canadian Innovators<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Balsillie gave directors two places to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first was an MIT report that found organizations \u201cdeeply committed\u201d to controlling their data, infrastructure, models, and governance are delivering five times the ROI on generative and agentic AI initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second is a recent guide from Palantir CEO Alex Karp, called <em>Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI<\/em>, where Karp outlines \u201c15 steps that every government and company can take to compound their alpha in the age of AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Balsillie explained, \u201che basically says you\u2019re paying tokens for these foundation models to suck the alpha out of your business and give it to new competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the guide\u2019s introduction, Karp wrote \u201cIn the age of AI, institutions are being led to believe their choices are narrower than they are \u2014 leaving critical decisions about how this technology is being deployed and applied to their data in the hands of others. In reality, you have complete agency over your AI model usage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t lock yourself into one particular system,\u201d said Wilding<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-a-board-seat-has-to-be-earned-with-real-expertise-now\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A board seat has to be earned with real expertise now<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Balsillie\u2019s test for a director starts with whether they understand the technology at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s like general business judgment for a neurosurgeon,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to know what you\u2019re doing. Great diagnostic tools, but tremendous artisanal and technical knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilding made a similar point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe whole piece around just AI in and of itself, let alone the integration of data, really is IP,\u201d she said. \u201cWhether you\u2019re in a tech company or even if you\u2019re in a legacy company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sits on the board of a private insurance brokerage and a hospital, two places with not only huge quantities of data, but sensitive data. Both, according to Wilding, \u201care being completely reshaped in terms of their strategies and how they move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That kind of basic business knowledge isn\u2019t enough anymore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you\u2019re going to be at a director level, you have to have an in-depth understanding,\u201d said Wilding. \u201cHow AI is disrupting the business model\u2026how do we use AI-assisted coding, or do we have AI agent applications, and how do we decide which ones?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directors need to be having these conversations, \u201cbut you can\u2019t have them if you don\u2019t understand how it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Wilding, this is where the risk gets real for directors, whose job comes with a fiduciary duty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She used the example of tokenization, or putting real assets on a blockchain or digital platform as digital tokens. It\u2019s a concept she said is moving fast, while most boards are still trying to define it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEverything is getting tokenized, but if you don\u2019t understand it, you can\u2019t actively exercise your fiduciary duty or oversight,\u201d said Wilding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaman watches boards still fill their seats by profession, adding a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant as they see fit. It\u2019s a traditional mindset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Echoing Balsillie, she said in reality you need very smart people who are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and dig in, not just act as an arbitrary representative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s who is going to add value to my business, and be willing to spend the time to add that value, and not just check the box,\u201d said Leaman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having recently filled in an annual skills inventory for one of her board positions, she believes that boards need to seriously consider the composition of what the table now looks like, and \u201cactively manage out\u201d those not adding value.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question Wilding now hears in those rooms has changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Wilding.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Wilding.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Wilding-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Photo-by-Connor-Dudgeon-Photo-courtesy-of-Council-of-Canadian-Innovators-Wilding-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Carol Wilding, President and CEO, CPA Ontario. <em>Photo by Connor Dudgeon Photo, courtesy of Council of Canadian Innovators<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do you create tangible value in an intangible world?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilding chairs the foundation of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, where there is a significant digital transformation underway. She explained a recent joint session between the boards of the foundation and hospital to talk about their AI value map.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like with most organizations, it all comes down to data. For a hospital, and the vast amounts of data it has, putting this data into an AI-ready mode isn\u2019t an all-at-once job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s got to be an iterative process, and you have to have the right guardrails from a risk perspective,\u201d said Wilding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThese things take a lot of time because there\u2019s a lot of data, a huge amount of risk, and it requires a project plan,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cIt needs a very well-educated champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-what-happens-if-the-model-you-re-built-on-disappears\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What happens if the model you\u2019re built on disappears<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrapping up the discussion, an audience member asked a question that many boards might\u2019ve not yet considered. Or, more dangerously, have ignored or pushed to the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a serial entrepreneur now building an AI company, he told the room that China had spent the week debating whether to wall off its open-source models for domestic use only. If you run a business on tools a foreign government can switch off, he said, the exposure stays invisible until the day it isn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat happens if we turn the power switch on,\u201d he asked, \u201cand there isn\u2019t power anymore because it\u2019s not available to us, because of the government?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wilding said many directors are still talking themselves out of the risk entirely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are some pretty traditional legacy boards out there that are rationalizing away why this access issue is really actually not a problem,\u201d said Wilding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story those boards tell themselves is that someone bigger has it handled, that a large enough bank or insurer is shielded from where its data goes.\u00a0She has no patience for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaybe it\u2019s a denial that it truly will impact my company,\u201d she speculated, \u201c\u2018I\u2019ve got enough big protection or big brother around me.\u2019 No, no, we don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaman, who admitted the whole thing can feel intimidating for anyone who isn\u2019t a tech person by nature, told the audience the starting point is not the obstacle they think it is.\u00a0\u201cThe reality is, most of us are not tech people, and we\u2019re in the same boat. We all have the capacity to learn and find those videos, those documents, those interviews, those formative things,\u201d she said. \u201cDon\u2019t be intimidated by your own starting point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To use a common refrain from social media comment sections, Google is free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A board that doesn\u2019t understand the exposure is a board that won\u2019t fund the fix. Every technology leader trying to get data control or security spending signed off already knows how that meeting will probably go.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-final-shots\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final shots<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>General business judgment can\u2019t govern data, model dependence, and tokenization anymore. The boards still filling seats by profession, checking off specific boxes, carry the most risk without seeing it.<\/li>\n<li>The divide now is between boards that hand off the AI question and boards that go learn it.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The boards most exposed are the ones sure they\u2019re covered. 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