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Teresa Briggs: Audit Committees, AI, and the Evolving Role of Corporate Directors.

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(0:00) Intro

(1:26) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel

(2:13) Start of interview

(2:53) Teresa's origin story

(4:30) Her career path at Deloitte (37-year career)

(7:40) Transition to Board Service

(8:37) Joining the board of ServiceNow

(10:57) Joining the board of Warby Parker and understanding Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs)

(14:48) Joining the boards of Snowflake and Docusign

(15:38) Insights on Audit Committees (*reference to E179 with Jack Lazar)

(17:10) Evolving Responsibilities of Audit Committees

(21:40) The Climate and ESG Discussion

(24:15) Boardroom Diversity Trends

(26:13) The Rise of AI in Business

(30:18) Navigating Geopolitical Changes

(33:36) Handling Crisis Situations (her experience with whistleblower case and special committee with outside counsel investigation)

(37:28) Engaging with Activist Investors

(38:40) Founder Mentality vs. Governance *Reference to VC-Board Academy (on October 28, 2025 in NYC)

(42:10) The Future of Private vs. Public Companies (impact of IPOs) *Mention of CaaStle fraud case.

(45:57) The Impact of AI on Human Capital

(48:29) Work from Home Dynamics

(50:05) Book that has greatly influenced her life: Outlive, by Peter Attia (2022)

(50:50) Her mentors. Rich Fineberg

(51:51) Quotes that she thinks of often or lives his life by.

(52:24) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that she loves.

(53:11) The living person she most admires.

Teresa Briggs serves on the boards of DocuSign, ServiceNow, Snowflake and Warby Parker. She is a member of the audit committee for each company and is the audit committee chair of ServiceNow, DocuSign, and Warby Parker.

You can follow Evan on social media at:

X: @evanepstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/

Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/

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To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/

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Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

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(0:00) Intro

(1:26) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel

(2:13) Start of interview

(2:53) Teresa's origin story

(4:30) Her career path at Deloitte (37-year career)

(7:40) Transition to Board Service

(8:37) Joining the board of ServiceNow

(10:57) Joining the board of Warby Parker and understanding Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs)

(14:48) Joining the boards of Snowflake and Docusign

(15:38) Insights on Audit Committees (*reference to E179 with Jack Lazar)

(17:10) Evolving Responsibilities of Audit Committees

(21:40) The Climate and ESG Discussion

(24:15) Boardroom Diversity Trends

(26:13) The Rise of AI in Business

(30:18) Navigating Geopolitical Changes

(33:36) Handling Crisis Situations (her experience with whistleblower case and special committee with outside counsel investigation)

(37:28) Engaging with Activist Investors

(38:40) Founder Mentality vs. Governance *Reference to VC-Board Academy (on October 28, 2025 in NYC)

(42:10) The Future of Private vs. Public Companies (impact of IPOs) *Mention of CaaStle fraud case.

(45:57) The Impact of AI on Human Capital

(48:29) Work from Home Dynamics

(50:05) Book that has greatly influenced her life: Outlive, by Peter Attia (2022)

(50:50) Her mentors. Rich Fineberg

(51:51) Quotes that she thinks of often or lives his life by.

(52:24) An unusual habit or an absurd thing that she loves.

(53:11) The living person she most admires.

Teresa Briggs serves on the boards of DocuSign, ServiceNow, Snowflake and Warby Parker. She is a member of the audit committee for each company and is the audit committee chair of ServiceNow, DocuSign, and Warby Parker.

You can follow Evan on social media at:

X: @evanepstein

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/

Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/

__

To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/

__

Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

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