Trustees behaving badly: has the sector set us up to fail?

Most Trustees join charity Boards with good intentions. Yet poor Trustee behaviour is one of the most common frustrations faced by charity leaders, fellow Trustees and Boards. Is it something about our sector is it the charity structure itself that is the problem? This episode explores why it is that there are so many examples of Trustees behaving badly, and we examine why this is so, and what can be done about it Today we speak with Mary-Ann Ochota, a Trustee who found herself facing an impossible governance situation, Penny Wilson, governance consultant, trainer and former CEO of Getting on Board, and Dr Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University whose research explores trustee skills, governance and Board effectiveness in charities…. Together, they examine why Trustees behave badly, what sits behind poor governance behaviour, and whether some of the sector's structures are inadvertently creating the conditions for failure.