The board meeting was on a Wednesday.
Full board this time — the four proxy members had been formally removed through the governance review process Clara had overseen over the past three weeks. Eight legitimate members remained. New appointments were in process — Helen Park had been nominated for one seat, a development that Aria had learned about Monday morning and spent approximately thirty seconds being surprised by before it made complete sense.
She wasn't attending as documentation support this time.
She was presenting.
She'd spent two weeks building the presentation — the industry-wide accountability recommendation, the framework, the case for Cole Enterprises taking a leadership position in corporate ethics reform beyond its own walls. Forty slides. Clean. Specific. Every claim
