Empowering boards to excel in effectiveness, governance and performance
Your Board Should Be a Driver of Your Organisation’s Performance
At Board Excellence with offices in Ireland and the UK, we offer a range of services designed to create high performance boards that become a huge driver of an organisation’s performance.
Sound governance is crucial to the sustained success of all organisations and central to sound governance is a high-performing board of directors. While the factors that impact on an organisation’s performance are complex and diverse, a highly effective board of directors has a direct and significant influence on the success of the organisation beyond its statutory requirements and is a powerful source of added value for shareholders and stakeholders.
When we engage with board clients, our goal is to empower them to achieve step-changes in their effectiveness, performance and in the value they create for their organisations, so that average boards become effective over time and effective boards become high-performing. We also work closely with high-performing boards to support them in constantly improving their performance.
While compliance with various governance codes and principles can help to provide safeguards for boards, we don’t believe that compliance alone will facilitate delivery and protection of shareholder or stakeholder value. We do believe, however, that the true characteristics of a high-performing board are found in the inter-play between people dynamics, behaviours and focus, and these are the factors which, when converging, will drive your board to deliver real value for all shareholders and stakeholders.
Read on to see how we can empower your board to achieve step-changes in their performance and the value they add to your organisation.
How We Support Our Clients
Board Evaluation
Public Sector Board Evaluation
Board and Director Training
Non-Executive Director & Board Chair Search
Governance and Culture Reviews
Board Dispute Mediation Services
Mentoring and Coaching for Directors & Board Chairs
Customised Services
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What Our Clients Say
“We recently engaged with Board Excellence to perform an external review of the performance of our Board. Under the guidance of Ros O’Shea, Board Excellence delivered a comprehensive assessment that was professional, rigorous, and fair. Universally, our Directors had affirming comments about their interviews with Ros. I found that Ros was particularly adept in bringing forward best practices that will help the performance of our Board as we move forward. The approach taken was not cookie cutter in any fashion. Board Excellence tailored our assessment to our Industry and our circumstances. I have no reservations in recommending Board Excellence to others.”
“Bord Na Mona selected Board Excellence to carry out a three year external Board Evaluation, this was following a tender process to select the most appropriate party to do the work. The project was managed and led by Martina Maher. The Board were extremely pleased with the process and the professional approach adopted from beginning to end. That started with Board Excellence understanding the Company, key issues, reviewing various material and speaking with selected people to ensure both the questionnaire and one to one meetings were relevant. Key for us was Board Excellence understanding the brief, were succinct in meetings and presented their findings in a way that was challenging, but easily understood. The Board are satisfied that Board Excellence brought fresh thinking and specifics in terms of practical improvements that could be made. We have no hesitation in recommendation Board Excellence and Martina to others.”
Some of Our Clients
What Our Clients Say
“Paul George and Sue Bonney recently completed a comprehensive Board Effectiveness Review for us. They have a well-established process for gathering evidence, apply sound judgement in interpreting that evidence and provided a clear and concise report with practical recommendations. Paul and Sue communicated professionally and effectively with us throughout the process and were prepared to listen and reflect on feedback and address our comments. We appreciated Paul and Sue’s experience and guidance throughout the process.”
“Board Excellence delivered a robust and objective assessment of the Board. Paul George and Martina Maher clearly understood the context in which the Board was operating as a result of the rapidly growing nature of the business, the level of regulatory scrutiny given the Group’s ambitious plans for further growth and the resulting pressures placed on the Board. The report was clear, to the point with some pertinent and practical recommendations which will help our governance arrangements keep place with our changing environment.”
Some of Our Clients
What Our Clients Say
“Africa50 engaged Board Excellence – a leading international board consulting practice – to conduct an external independent board and committee evaluation as part of our deep commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance. At Africa50, we believe that regularly conducting and acting on such assessment is meant to improve board and committee’s overall effectiveness and performance. We found the process to evaluate Africa50 Board performance to be comprehensive, tailored to our requirements and added significant value. The quality of the team – Kieran and Chaka – were excellent, highly engaging, with deep expertise in the board governance area. The Corporate Secretary team kept engaged in the planning and during all the process. They managed to keep our directors engaged all along in a helpful and pleasant manner. We are delighted to recommend the engagement of Board Excellence in assessing a board and advising on how best to deliver enhanced board effectiveness.”
Morocco
“Kieran led our Board of Directors and Executive Management Team through an education session on Board Best Practices. The session covered key best practices for the executive team partnering with the board of directors, optimizing the value of board committees and evolving expectations of and key trends in publicly listed company boards. With Kieran’s extensive experience as an advisor and a board member, he was able to provide current and practical advice and guidance to the board and executive team. Thanks to his facilitation style, we had genuine healthy engagement and discussion from both board members and executive. We would not hesitate to recommend Kieran.”
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