Vanguard’s Ken Banta recently spoke with Donna Murray-Brown — president and CEO of the Michigan Nonprofit Association and chair of the National Council of Nonprofits — about what top leaders should and shouldn’t do in the pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion. In the highlights video below, Ke...

Entrepreneurial founders in the life sciences often get derailed as they try to lead their organizations into their third or fourth years. Vivek Ramaswamy, founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences, thinks that’s because starting a new kind of company means breaking norms, while developing and scaling it ...

As Vanguard’s principal, Ken Banta, notes at the start of this conversation, “healthcare is widely seen as being broken here in the U.S.”   Ken is speaking with Andrew Thompson, Managing Director and co-founder of the venture capital firm Spring Ridge Ventures and also, until recently, CEO of Proteu...

With corporate America getting more serious about diversity, equity and inclusion, we talked about what it takes to push through the resistance. As Angel Shelton Willis puts it in this video, if you can handle a complex, high-profile ligation matter, "honestly, I believe you can solve diversity." Fo...

Spoiler alert: You do.    This video considers what strategies work in an emergency arising from a regulatory decision, and how you can best position yourself BEFORE something like that happens.    Highlights from the 2020 Vanguard Forum for Life Sciences Leaders, Session 2.   Members, sign in above...

How has COVID changed the dynamics of leading a business, and how might leadership change in the post-pandemic world? From the sense of urgency instilled by the events of 2020 to the pluses and very real minuses of remote work, leaders in the life sciences discuss their learnings in this video, and ...

The pandemic has rewired perspectives on a lot of things — including, for many of us, how we lead.   At the 2020 Vanguard Forum for Life Sciences Leaders in October, we asked Forum Chair Cameron Durrant — who’s also CEO and Board Chairman of Humanigen — how COVID has impacted his leadership. He talk...

Some people have asked what the Vanguard Group's consulting side can do for our partners. Here’s a candid conversation that Vanguard Principal Ken Banta had with Matt Meyer from Wilson Sonsini, about the distinct challenges faced by life sciences leaders — and the ways advisors like Ken and Matt can...

In this video, legal leaders from across a range of industries talk about what they and their organizations have learned from the pandemic, and share collective insights and wisdom.   Highlights from the 2020 Forum for General Counsels, Session 2.   Members, sign in above for more great leadership c...

There are a lot of challenges facing General Counsels right now, as their organizations deal with the fallout from the pandemic and grapple with new agendas around social justice. In this video, leading GCs and leadership experts talk about the GC's evolution, in recent years, from advisor to strate...