Dr Eve Poole OBE Chairs the Woodard Corporation. Previously, she was Interim CEO of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2023-2024), Interim CEO of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022), Third Church Estates Commissioner (2018-2021), and Chairman of the Board of Governors at Gordonstoun (2015-2021). She also taught Leadership at Ashridge Business School, following earlier careers at the Church Commissioners and Deloitte Consulting. She has a BA from Durham, an MBA from Edinburgh, and a PhD from Cambridge. She has written several books, including Robot Souls and Leadersmithing, which was Highly Commended in the 2018 Business Book Awards