A few years ago, I sat in on a board meeting as an observer. About fifteen minutes into the management presentation, I watched the familiar shift happen. One director checked the clock. Another closed their binder with a quiet thud. A third stared down at their notes, no longer tracking what was being said. At the break, one of them turned to me and privately said, almost apologetically, “I stopped listening around slide ten.” I wasn’t surprised. My years at a Fortune 5 compa

That's the question that drives the conversation when Amii Barnard-Bahn, Kimberly Davis, and Mary Beth Molloy join the ethics panel to...