News & Events

01-Dec-2024: Our Managing Partner, Kieran Moynihan, discusses key board trends for 2025

22-April-2024 – Board Excellence are delighted to announce that we have been accredited by the Chartered Governance Institute (UK & Ireland) for independent board reviews.

12-December-2023 – Kieran Moynihan writes about the critical importance of the Executive Team being incredibly honest with their board and sharing bad news early. This goes right to the heart

01-March-2023 – Kieran Moynihan writes about “The critical importance of the Employee Voice in the Boardroom” illustrating a growing focus of boards to significantly improve their understanding of what’s happening

18-Sep-2022 – Kieran Moynihan writes about “NEDs who add exceptional value beyond governance/oversight”, illustrating the characteristics of NEDs who add significant value beyond governance/oversight, particularly strategically and in high-value support

01-Feb-2022 – Kieran Moynihan writes about “CEO Succession Planning”, understanding the challenges and a practical guide to effective CEO succession planning.

07-Dec-2021 – Kieran Moynihan writes on key board trends for 2022, how boards are evolving and a blueprint for progressive boards.

29-June-2021 – Kieran Moynihan writes about the “board’s moral compass and conscience” and its key role in avoiding board scandals and organisation collapses.

27-Apr-2021 – Kieran Moynihan writes on the critical people factors of a board and how to optimise these.

10-Mar-2021 Board Excellence are delighted to announce their merger with Acorn Governance as part of their continued expansion

23-Feb-2021 Board Excellence are delighted to announce Paul George as their new Partner, based in London

20-Jan-2021 – Kieran Moynihan writes on practical guidance on how boards can recognise and address the challenges of an under-performing Board Chair

01-Oct-2020 – Kieran Moynihan writes on how boards have adapted through the Covid-19 and economic crisis.

24-Mar-2020 – Kieran Moynihan writes on the challenges boards face in oversight of outsourced/3rd party providers.

04-December-2019 – Kieran Moynihan speaks at the launch in London of the AIM Good Governance Review 2019/2020 published by the QCA and UHY Hacker Young.

05-Oct-2019 – Kieran Moynihan writes in this month’s Chartered Accountants Ireland magazine on key board trends for 2020

13-Sep-2019 – Corporate Governance and Board Best Pactices workshop for nominee directors of DFIs.

09-Sep-2019 – LSE features Board Excellence article on “Board best practices for a CEO & Executive team”

20-Jun-2019 – Kieran Moynihan presents on “High-performing board teams & External Board Evaluations”

16-May-2019 – Board Excellence exhibits and David O’Callaghan speaks on “Running effective board meetings”

01-Apr-2019 – Kieran Moynihan writes on the critical role of the modern board chair.

27-Mar-2019 – David O’Callaghan presents on “Board effectiveness and performance beyond the annual evaluation”

19-Mar-2019 – Eileen Cole writes on the key role accountants play as board directors.

01-Mar-2019 – Kieran Moynihan writes on enhancing the strategic capability of a board.

03-Dec-2018 – Kieran Moynihan writes on what a board might look like in 2025.

27-Aug-2018 – Kieran Moynihan writes on best practices for dealing with problematic board directors. To continue reading please click the full article here.

19-Aug-2018 – Kieran Moynihan writes on best practices for appointing a first independent non-executive director to a family business board. To continue reading please click the full article here.

21-Jun-2018 – Kieran Moynihan writes on an interesting visualisation technique for board members to help understand their effectiveness.

10-Aug-2017 – Kieran Moynihan writes on the key differences between Private Equity and PLC approaches to board performance. To continue reading please click the full article here.