With BLC events geared towards promoting a platform for sharing ideas and opinions on boardroom challenges, it addresses the growing need for board members to have access to peer counsel, leading practice guides, benchmarking tools and knowledge forums to enable them to meet future challenges. The Center conducts board development programmes to equip directors with insights and leading practices. The Center has organised several marquee events with board members and business leaders. It has mobilised informed opinion on a wide variety of topics to earmark trends and leading practices.
Empowering boards: Redefining leadership for a resilient future
KPMG in India's Board Leadership Center (BLC) organised an event in Delhi on 3 March 2025. The closed-door roundtable discussion saw participation of marquee board of directors and business leaders. Aimed at discussing ‘top-of-the-mind’ issues for boards, directors deliberated on following topics:
Glimpses from the event
Unlocking Talent: How NRCs transform human capital strategy
KPMG in India's Board Leadership Center (BLC) organised an event in Mumbai on 25 November 2025. Veteran industry leaders and independent directors participated in this roundtable discussion focusing on trends shaping around nomination and remuneration committees (NRCs). The intriguing topics of discussion were:
Glimpses from the event
Driving Board Excellence
KPMG in India’s Board Leadership Center hosted an event, ‘Driving Board Excellence’ in Mumbai on 3 April 2024. The event included:
Glimpses from the event
Directors’ Connect - February 2020
KPMG’s Board Leadership Center (BLC), India organised Directors’ Connect in Delhi on 10 February 2020 and in Mumbai on 20 February 2020. The event saw participation from a distinguished coterie of independent directors and business leaders. Aimed at discussing ‘top-of-the-mind’ issues for Boards, the event covered topics such as:
Women Director's Roundtable
KPMG in India’s Board Leadership Center (BLC) organised a Women Independent Directors’ Roundtable on 9 January 2020 in Gurugram and on 14 January 2020 in Mumbai.
The roundtable included presentations by Ritesh Tiwari, Partner and Leader, KPMG Board Leadership Center (India); Akhilesh Tuteja, Partner and Head of Risk Consulting, KPMG in India; Hiroo Mirchandani, Independent Director, on multiple company boards and a dialogue between Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital and Independent Director on multiple company boards and Venkataramanan Vishwanath, Chartered Accountant.
The event covered topics such as:
Roundtable discussion on ‘Governance for start-ups
Governance for start-ups: Boards for sustainable growth
KPMG’s Board Leadership Center (India) along with Women Corporate Directors (WCD) organised a roundtable discussion on 20 February 2018 in Gurugram on ‘Governance for start-ups: Boards for sustainable growth’ with Meena Ganesh (MD and CEO of Portea Medical Pvt. Ltd. and on the board of multiple companies) and Geeta Mathur (Co-chair, WCD and on the board of multiple companies) as speakers. This discussion was followed by a session on ‘Emerging tax landscape’. Over 25 leading corporate directors attended the event. The briefings were highly interactive and were appreciated by all participants.
Independent Director's Roundtable
Managing digital risks: digital disruption and cybersecurity issues for Boards to consider
KPMG’s Board Leadership Center (BLC) organised a roundtable on ‘Managing digital risks: digital disruption and cybersecurity issues for Boards to consider’ on 22 May 2019 in Mumbai and on 7 August 2019 in Delhi. The session witnessed participation from Independent Directors and Partners from KPMG in India.
Every organisation is undertaking digital transformation initiatives, and with this, cybersecurity is emerging as one of the top three risks for a majority of companies. The topics discussed at this roundtable included:
Roundtable discussion - April 2019
KPMG’s Board Leadership Center along with Women Corporate Directors (WCD) organised a discussion on 10 April 2019. Key topics covered during the session were:
Key speakers
Roundtable discussion - December 2018
KPMG’s Board Leadership Center along with WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) organised a discussion on 17 December 2018. The briefing was led by Mr. Arun Duggal, Co-founder – Women on Corporate Boards Mentorship Program and Independent Director on multiple boards on the topic ‘Effective board members’. The briefing was followed by a session on ‘What Boards look for in Independent Directors’, which was led by Ms. Ritu Kochhar, Co-Chair WCD and Leader, Board Recruitment and CEO Search, Financial Services and Private Equity practice, Spencer Stuart in India.