2026 Enterprise Governance Symposium

Tiziana Casciaro is Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Marcel Desautels Chair in Integrative Thinking at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on how power dynamics and networks shape collaboration, leadership, and organizational change. Her work bridges disciplines spanning management, psychology, and sociology and has earned distinguished scientific achievement awards from the Academy of Management.

Recognized by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top management thinkers, Tiziana regularly contributes to the Harvard Business Review, and her insights have been featured in The Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fortune, and TIME.

She is the co-author of Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (Simon & Schuster, 2022), winner of the Academy of Management’s George R. Terry Book Award for the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge.

Originally from Italy, Tiziana earned her B.A. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Organization Science and Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining the University of Toronto, she served on the faculty of Harvard Business School.
 

Paul Smith, known as “The Board Futurist”, is a globally recognised innovator and thought leader in corporate governance. As the founder of Future Directors, he is helping to revolutionise how boards and directors learn, connect, and adapt through a holistic platform combining technology, education, and community. His mission is clear: to future-proof boards and help directors become effective stewards for an uncertain and complex world. A sought-after international speaker, Paul shares insights on impactful governance, inclusive decision-making, and the transformative potential of technology, particularly artificial intelligence, in the boardroom. His philosophy, that the board of the future will be "simultaneously more human and less human", drives his work in blending behavioural science with technology to enhance decision-making.

Paul is the award-winning author of Right Seat Right Table, a cornerstone text for emerging board members, and The Artificially Intelligent Boardroom, the essential guide for future-focused directors ready to move from confusion to confidence with this revolutionary technology. With 15 years of board experience, Paul has served as chair and non-executive director for companies across Australia, the UK, and Europe. His work extends to mentoring chairs, founders, and CEOs, and advising boards on performance, processes, and culture. Through ongoing partnerships and initiatives, Paul demonstrates his commitment to building governance practices that are inclusive, impactful, and ready for the future.

Annette Greenhow is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bond University, teaching postgraduate and undergraduate subjects across Sports Law, Tort Law, and Corporations Law. She coaches Bond’s Sports Arbitration Moot team and convenes the annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Sport.
Her research focuses on sport-related concussion regulation, youth sport concussion, athlete representation in governance, and Corporations Law.

A Queensland-admitted Solicitor with over 20 years’ legal experience, including as Principal of Greenhow and Associates and Special Counsel at Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Annette also serves as Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and General Editor of the Bond University Sports Law and Governance Journal.