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The Healthy Company

A handbook for directors and executives – and those on their way to getting there.

This video showcases endorsed training on corporate governance and Integrated Reporting

as contained in The Healthy Company book.

Leading a company today means managing the uses of its resources and relationships and how it deals with the resulting effects over time because these effects will come back to impact the company, negatively or positively, in the future. It is this circle of integrated thinking that is essential to a healthy and sustainable company.

 

Meet the authors of The Health Company, Prof Mervyn King and Leigh Roberts, and hear about this useful reference and have an opportunity to understand, engage and apply the guidance provided.

  • 8 May 2024

Background information

The Healthy Company considers a company’s purpose and strategy under an integrated thinking approach. It also takes readers through a history of the company structure itself and the corporate revolutions that have happened along the way.

 

The Healthy Company offers: 

  • Four matters that should be discussed at every board meeting to keep directors informed and to cultivate better decision-making,
  • Best practice guidance on preparing an integrated report, with FAQs for directors and executives, and
  • A seven-step process which focuses on integration and a healthy company for the longer term.

 

The Good Governance Academy facilitates training interventionsbased on the guidance contained in the book, including topics such as:

  • What is a healthy company?
  • The now business model
  • Purpose, outcomes and strategy
  • Integrated thinking
  • Corporate revolutions
  • The role of the board
  • The informed board
  • The importance of the Integrated Report
  • 7 steps to making the change

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Carolynn Chalmers
  • Facilitator
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  • Training Manager

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Prof. Mervyn King

Patron, Good Governance Academy

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel, former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and designated Chartered Director (South Africa). He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town, and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes University. He has honorary Doctorates from Wits University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Leeds University in the UK, and Deakin University in Australia.

 

Mervyn is honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, and the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

 

Mervyn is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, as well as of the Value Reporting Foundation (incorporating the International Integrated Reporting Council and SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally, from several institutions.

 

Mervyn chairs the Good Law Foundation and has chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight. He is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance and of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris. Mervyn currently chairs the African Integrated Reporting Council and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa and is Patron of the Good Governance Academy.

 

Mervyn has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges. He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants.

 

He is the author of many books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Healthy Company.”

Leigh Roberts CA(SA)

Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa

Leigh has been deeply involved in integrated reporting in South Africa and internationally since its emergence in 2010. She worked on the development of the International <IR> Framework released in 2013 and its revision in 2021. She has consulted and run board and executive training on integrated reporting internationally and in South Africa and has written numerous publications. Leigh is Chief Executive Officer of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa and is its technical head. She has adjudicated for integrated reporting awards, is a Chartered Accountant and an award-winning business journalist in print and television.

Carolynn Chalmers

Chief Executive Officer, Good Governance Academy

Carolynn Chalmers is the Chief Executive Officer of Professor Mervyn King’s Good Governance Academy and its initiative, The ESG Exchange. She has edited two international standards: ISO 37000:2021 – Governance of organizations – Guidance and its associated Governance Maturity Model, ISO 37004:2023.

 

Carolynn makes corporate dreams come true, assisting leaders and leadership teams in how to create value for their organisations. She makes use of her expertise and experience in corporate governance, organizational strategy, Digital Transformation, and IT to do so.

 

Carolynn is an Independent Committee Member of South Africa’s largest private Pension Fund, the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, and recently retired as Independent Committee member of several board committees for the Government Employee Medical Scheme. Carolynn has extensive management, assurance and governance experience and has held various Executive roles for international, listed, private and public organisations across many industries.

 

Carolynn is best known for her successes in establishing governance frameworks, and designing and the leading large, complex initiatives that can result. She attributes this success to the application of good governance principles. She shares her insights on her 2 LinkedIn Groups – Applying King IV and Corporate Governance Institute. 

Marc Morley

Building Partnerships for an Ethical and Sustainable Future

Good Governance Academy: Training Manager

Marc switched careers from Finance in 2012, when he moved from corporates to start-ups.

 

Marc’s first initiative in this new capacity was to help ITWinners to grow. This company is focused on helping businesses achieve their strategic goals – by building and enhancing specific capabilities.

 

Subsequently, IT Winners has grown into Executive Education Online, an organization with a passion for ethical and sustainable change, focussing on education.

 

Marc joined the Good Governance Academy in 2023 as Training Manager in a collaboration arrangement between the Good Governance Academy and Executive Education Online.

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