This year at the Stanford Directors’ College, the Rock Center team once again put together an all-star slate covering key issues for corporate board members. The Rock Center’s Joe Grundfest, Amanda Packel and Kristen Savelle raise the bar for the event each year. This year, they were joined by a new face, Michael Callahan, former senior vice president and general counsel of LinkedIn (a familiar venue to many readers). Topics this year included insight on #MeToo issues, privacy, shareholder activism, cybersecurity, succession, compensation, and enterprise risk, to name a few. As directors and experts gathered from across the globe to see the greatest governance show on earth, one of the directors stood out—Shellye Archambeau.

Archambeau was one of those speakers where you could hear a pin drop when she was talking. She started off her career at IBM and ran Blockbuster’s e-commerce division. She was the CEO of MetricStream for over 15 years, a leading provider of governance, risk, compliance and quality management solutions to corporations across diverse industries. Archambeau currently sits on the boards of MetricStream, Nordstrom Inc. and Verizon Communications. Archambeau is regularly named on Who’s Who lists in technology. She attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And she’s a gourmet cook and writes a blog that provides career advice, insight and other musings from her career (https://shellyearchambeau.com). She also co-wrote a book, “Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Value to Any Sized Company,” which describes marketing tools, tactics and strategies to leverage current trends and opportunities and optimize corporate profits and brand development.