Board Effectiveness

Advice to improve board effectiveness

No two boards are the same. And no two organizations face identical sets of challenges. That’s why we focus on your needs—bringing together the right services to deliver on your priorities.

Turn insight into action

Identifying opportunities is not enough. The most powerful board effectiveness efforts uncover a handful of critical opportunities and a pathway to address them. Whether your board is already performing perfectly or has room for improvement, we can help you plan a journey to continue or achieve effectiveness and high performance.

Board evaluation

While many annual evaluations focus solely on full board performance, assessing committee and director performance unlocks opportunities to enhance board performance. Holistic evaluations that qualitatively and quantitatively examine structures, processes, and people at all three levels can confidently assess whether the board is a value-generating asset.

Board composition, refreshment, and renewal

When you bring together the right directors into an organized team with an effective chair, the entire board acts ethically, works well together, and delivers for investors and shareholders. We enhance board composition based on long-term strategy, identifying the skills needed for the future and aligning directors to a single vision.

Activist investor defense

Boards continue to face scrutiny from activists, institutional investors, and the media. We work with boards to understand where they might be vulnerable, and how they would stand up to an activist investor. We understand how activists analyze and target boards, and how to reduce director vulnerability in a proxy contest.

Board coaching

The best boards and directors understand the value of coaching in preparing for whatever comes next. Our qualified board coaches work with full boards, committees, and individual directors to improve team dynamics, optimize processes, and develop the ability to respond to emerging challenges.

Board builds

Preparing to go public, or creating a private company’s first board, is a challenge. Not least because getting a value-enhancing board in place requires careful planning. We have extensive experience in supporting and advising on building boards for IPO, including helping private capital firms prepare portfolio companies for listing on indices around the world.

Board advice

The role and responsibility of boards are becoming increasingly complex. To help them navigate change, our board advisors counsel them on their most pressing issues, such as board and CEO succession planning, corporate governance, and inclusion and culture.