Governance tools you can use in the boardroom.
The Closed Session by Paul Halpin is the paid implementation layer alongside Governance Decoded by Paul Halpin. Each product offered by The Closed Session is a practitioner-built instrument — structured for use by everyone who takes governance seriously.
Three families to choose from.
Board AI Oversight Framework
A structured governance instrument that gives boards the language, accountability architecture, and oversight questions to govern AI with confidence — without needing to be technologists.
Board DiagnosticsAI Governance Readiness Diagnostic
A board-level diagnostic that shows directors exactly where their AI governance is robust, where it's exposed, and what to address first.
Governance PlaybooksGovernance Playbooks
Step-by-step governance instruments for defined boardroom situations — structured to guide the board through the decision, not just describe it.
Paul Halpin
Director and Chair & Governance Practitioner
Governance Decoded is a free fortnightly newsletter read by 2,200+ board directors, NEDs, governance professionals, and company secretaries. The Closed Session is its implementation layer — products designed to turn that thinking into instruments you can pick up and use.
Paul Halpin has 20+ years of multi-sector board experience. As a serving board member, he has helped founder CEOs build their first boards, guided fellow directors in family business boards through complex risk and compliance challenges, and led boards of listed companies in operating governance frameworks that actually hold up under pressure.
The products in The Closed Session aren't written from theory. They're built from inside the room — shaped by the questions that matter when the quality of governance is on the line.
Read Governance Decoded
Fortnightly. Practitioner-grade. Written directly for directors. Governance Decoded by Paul Halpin provides you with the thinking to make your contribution count when you walk into the boardroom. The Closed Session by Paul Halpin equips you with the tools to act on it.
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