High-Performance Family Boards from New Zealand to Africa
Carl Bates and his mother keep what they call the drop dead folder. A governance adviser on writing down intentions while nothing is at stake.
Carl Bates
Founding partner of Sirdar, Africa; second generation in his family's New Zealand property business
On the show
The Business Family Diagnostic · Plan B
Carl and his mother keep a drop dead folder.
The wills, and also the intentions behind them, written down while nothing is at stake. Are the senior generation's wills, powers of attorney and key documents current in your family?
“If the family had to leave the country it lives in, it knows where it would go and how.”
Biography
Carl Bates is Africa’s leading educator, appointer and guide of High-Performance boards. As the Founding Partner of Sirdar, he is world renowned for his practical understanding of governance and is constantly invited to share his knowledge and insight on the subject — in Africa, Sirdar is the largest provider of independent non-executive directors to private companies and family businesses.
Carl Bates is the Founding Partner of Sirdar, Africa’s leader in educating, appointing and guidance to high-performance boards.
He is a leading international entrepreneur, speaker and mentor and the global expert on the education and implementation of governance. Carl is particularly passionate about how boards can transform and scale-up privately-held and family companies.
As a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Institute of Directors in South Africa and Chartered Member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, and having served on the board of directors of a number of public organisations and private companies, Carl has an array of knowledge regarding the successful business growth and development.
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