An Index of Record Since MMXV

Writing and Bylines

Forty-seven pieces in eleven years across four publications of record. The writing is not a portfolio. It is a record of questions asked in public, kept here for those who would prefer to read the practitioner before retaining her.

Count XLVII

First 2015

Outlets IIII

Languages EN · FR · DE · NL

By Outlet · Chronological

A Reading Room of Forty-Seven Entries

Listed below in the order each piece appeared. Each row carries the date, the publication, and the headline as it ran. No link, no excerpt, no endorsement — the bylines speak for themselves.

2016 · 04 HBR The General Counsel's Reading of the Boardroom
2017 · 09 HBR When the CEO Should Be the Last to Speak
2018 · 02 HBR Pre-Mortems for Succession-Ready Founders
2019 · 06 HBR The Quiet CEO Problem
2019 · 11 HBR Hostile-Rejection as a Discipline, Not a Drama
2020 · 05 HBR Three Questions a Board Should Refuse to Answer
2021 · 01 HBR The Cost of Saying Yes Too Quickly
2022 · 03 HBR Why Senior Teams Stop Disagreeing — and What to Do About It
2023 · 10 HBR The Twenty-Year Decision

2015 · 11 FT Notes from a Newly Independent Practice
2016 · 06 FT The Lonely Seat at the Head of the Table
2017 · 02 FT When a Founder Outlasts the Company
2017 · 10 FT On the Misuse of Confidentiality
2018 · 05 FT A Defence of Slow Decisions in Fast Companies
2018 · 12 FT The Chairman Who Would Not Ask
2019 · 04 FT Reading the Room Before the Room Is Set
2019 · 09 FT What an Independent Adviser Is For
2020 · 02 FT Crisis, Without Theatre
2020 · 11 FT The Board's Reading List
2021 · 06 FT Why the Best CEOs Edit Their Own Minutes
2022 · 01 FT A Small Note on Scarcity and Counsel
2022 · 07 FT When Capital Withdraws Its Patience
2023 · 03 FT The Preparation Before the Pitch
2023 · 11 FT After the Headline, the Work
2024 · 05 FT On Becoming Unfashionable Again

2016 · 03 HB Der Aufsichtsrat, der nicht zuhört
2016 · 10 HB Wenn die Übergabe zur Krise wird
2017 · 05 HB Familienunternehmen und die stille Frage
2018 · 01 HB Über das Nein-Sagen im Vorstand
2018 · 08 HB Die Disziplin der Ablehnung
2019 · 03 HB Vor dem Börsengang: drei unbequeme Fragen
2019 · 10 HB Der CEO als Letzter im Raum
2020 · 06 HB M&A: die zweite Meinung vor dem Signing
2021 · 04 HB Wenn der Vorstand sich nicht mehr streitet
2022 · 02 HB Notizen zur Langsamkeit in schnellen Häusern
2023 · 07 HB Der stillste CEO im Raum
2024 · 02 HB Was ein unabhängiger Berater leistet — und was nicht

2017 · 04 LE Le président qui ne savait plus écouter
2018 · 01 LE Quand le fondateur survit à l'entreprise
2018 · 09 LE Lecture d'une salle avant la séance
2019 · 05 LE L'art de la décision lente
2020 · 02 LE Crise sans théâtre
2020 · 12 LE Le conseil indépendant, à quoi sert-il?
2021 · 08 LE Avant l'introduction en bourse, trois questions
2022 · 06 LE Le rachat hostile, comme discipline
2023 · 04 LE Le prix de la précipitation
2024 · 01 LE Après la une, le travail

Reading Note

These are not essays written to attract clients. They are questions asked in public, kept here for the principals who must one day answer them in private — at a board table, in a succession letter, or across the desk of a regulator.

— Sigrid Verbert, Brussels, MMXXIV

47 Bylines

9 Years (since 2015)

4 Publications of Record

11 Countries Advised

A colophon to the body of work — to be read as quietly as it was written.

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