Board Excellence is a leading provider of board and governance training across all sectors of Corporate and Listed stock-market company boards, Investment firms and their portfolio boards, SMEs and Family Businesses, Public Sector, Non-Profit and Charity boards. Our workshops, delivered either in-person or virtually, are customised for the current level of client board/governance sophistication and specific sector. Key focus areas for the training are outlined below. Specific components include;
Key focus areas for the board and director training are outlined below. Specific components include;
- A pre-workshop planning call with the Board Chair, Company Secretary and CEO
- Key focus on real-life case studies and common challenges
- Practical guidance on board and committee effectiveness
- Latest thinking on board dynamics, effectiveness and governance
- Innovative approaches to enabling the Executive team partner effectively with the Non-Executive Directors
As all of the Board Excellence team are serving Board Chairs and Non-Executive Directors, with significant previous executive and senior governance leadership roles, we bring a unique practical experience to board and director training. We also combine our own original thought leadership on board dynamics and effectiveness with our experience of evaluating and supporting a wide range of boards across all sectors across the world.
Some of Our Clients
What Our Clients Say
The Board of Directors (Council) of CPA Ireland engaged the expertise of Board Excellence to ensure that the Board members, individually and collectively, understood the characteristics of a high performing board and how to sustain high performance. The CPA Ireland Directors found Board Excellence to be experienced, engaging, knowledgeable and challenging and, very importantly, enjoyable. The collective experience within Board Excellence ensures that Directors are presented with real world examples against which to benchmark performance. In summary, Board Excellence are excellent
“We are delighted with our decision to have engaged with Ros O’Shea and Board Excellence. Our experienced directors, committee members and executive staff from across the Saint John of God Group of companies have benefitted from an extremely focused board assessment, a training workshop for our numerous Chairpersons and a deep dive into risk management for both trustees and senior staff. Feedback is always of a very positive and very productive exercise. We very much look forward to our next engagement with Ros.
“Corrib Oil is one of the largest Irish family-owned, oil distribution and forecourt retail companies in Ireland with over 1,150 employees across the South, the Midlands, and the West. We have been working with Board Excellence Ltd for the past 18 months on our corporate governance, the development of our senior leadership team and formulating our Strategic Plan 2024-2029. Kieran Moynihan delivered a board best practices workshop and support programme that has provided the board and senior leadership team with an excellent pathway for sustained improvement of our board effectiveness, corporate governance and performance. I am very happy to recommend Board Excellence Ltd for similar work.”
Kieran Moynihan and Board Excellence have been working with the Board and Chief Executive of COPE Foundation assisting them to improve their Board governance and information model since 2017. Kieran’s easy style and manner has assisted the Foundation to firstly review its Governance and Board information processes and then to put in place a structure and methodology that firstly ensures that the Board has all of the information and detail it requires to ensure that Board members can fulfil their obligations and secondly to ensure compliance not only with Company Law but also with best practice for charitable and voluntary organisations. It is with great pleasure and the utmost confidence that I am providing this recommendation
“Board Excellence ran an in-house workshop for our Board of Directors on the subject of board best practices and impartiality. The planning and preparation for the workshop, coupled with the delivery of the training on the day were exceptional. We worked closely with Kieran throughout, which ensured the content was useful, relevant, and it gave us further best practice to incorporate into our general board practices and impartiality committee procedures”
Having undertaken training with Kieran and Eileen of Board Excellence, our Board had a unanimously positive response. The training was clear and very practical and has focused our minds on having a more dynamic board that can react to current and future needs”
Board Excellence is a leading provider of board and governance training across all sectors of Corporate and Listed stock-market company boards, Investment firms and their portfolio boards, SMEs and Family Businesses, Public Sector, Non-Profit and Charity boards. Our workshops, delivered either in-person or virtually, are customised for the current level of client board/governance sophistication and specific sector. Key focus areas for the training are outlined below. Specific components include;
Key focus areas for the board and director training are outlined below. Specific components include;
- A pre-workshop planning call with the Board Chair, Company Secretary and CEO
- Key focus on real-life case studies and common challenges
- Practical guidance on board and committee effectiveness
- Latest thinking on board dynamics, effectiveness and governance
- Innovative approaches to enabling the Executive team partner effectively with the Non-Executive Directors
As all of the Board Excellence team are serving Board Chairs and Non-Executive Directors, with significant previous executive and senior governance leadership roles, we bring a unique practical experience to board and director training. We also combine our own original thought leadership on board dynamics and effectiveness with our experience of evaluating and supporting a wide range of boards across all sectors across the world.
Some of Our Clients
What Our Clients Say
“Paul, As chair of Table Tennis England, I wanted to thank you for the training session. It was right on point with, I felt, very strong engagement. Learning and developing as a board is very much a component of effectiveness, together with enhancing one’s own perspectives . Your delivery certainly hit the spot.”
“The Board Excellence workshop for PE run by Kieran brought focus to the key areas of what creates an effective board. Furthermore the levels of research and knowledge shared by the Board Excellence team, has enabled us to put together our own framework of best practices, which can now be rolled out throughout our business and portfolio.”
“Kieran and his team have been more than supportive and have always been willing to provide advice and a listening ear and it feels like a genuine partnership arrangement. The knowledge of the team at Board Excellence is first class and their willingness to listen and provide a way forward and through issues is very impressive. Kieran keeps in regular touch and ensures we are up to date with latest developments providing a plethora of relevant and interesting material in the field which is an added bonus and very much appreciated.”
“Efficient and effective boards are an important ingredient in managing and developing high growth businesses. We have worked with Board Excellence to great effect both training our own team in how best to maximise the effectiveness of boards but also with a number of our portfolio companies and chairmen. Board Excellence have great experience and are able to deliver the lessons learned in a coherent and digestible way. We are very happy to be working with them”
“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.”
Canada
“Board Excellence through their specialists Dr. Jonathan Westrup and Mr. Chaka Nkofo demonstrated profound expertise in Executive Management dynamics and succinctly captured the nucleus of the Central Bank of Lesotho requirements for the training. The presenters professionally navigated and sensitively managed the identified topics on roles and responsibilities of the Exco, common Exco challenges and key requirements for an effective Exco, tools required for reaching consensus and effective interaction with the Board. Considering the professional and competent delivery of their engagement, on behalf of the Central Bank of Lesotho, I highly recommend Board Excellence for any board/ corporate governance consultancy opportunities that your company may offer.”
Lesotho
“As a Development Finance Institution (DFI), DEG relies on the positive impact Nominee Directors can provide to our partner companies all over the world. Board Excellence has been a great partner in this, providing extensive expertise on board work through their Director training as well as by offering valuable insights on good board practices in general. Always open to adjusting the programme according to Nominee Directors’ needs and interests, they have developed a training which addresses all areas of board work relevant to DEG’s Nominee Directors. We look forward to continuing working with Board Excellence in the coming years.”
Germany
“FMO, the Dutch Development Bank, highly values training of its (potential) nominee directors to support them in the proper performance of their board role thus enabling them to positively contribute to board effectiveness and – dynamics. In Board Excellence we found a diligent, knowledgeable and experienced training institute performing a dedicated nominee director training highly appreciated by the participants.”
Netherlands
“The Boardroom Africa (TBR Africa) seeks to ensure that human capital is fully realised by enhancing awareness of the effectiveness of female leaders. We fulfil that goal in partnership with organisations like Board Excellence. TBR Africa has collaborated with Board Excellence to deliver high level seminars and workshops to our community of leaders on topics including, Resolving Board Conflicts and Leveraging Diversity as a Risk Management Tool. Board Excellence and TBR Africa share a vision that diverse boards make a better world. Our partnership with Board Excellence enabled TBR Africa to fully leverage their deep expertise in governance best practices.”
Ghana
“The training on board management and best practices with Kieran Moynihan, was outstanding. Kieran’s presentation was clear, insightful, and practical. His deep expertise in board dynamics, combined with real-world examples, made complex concepts feel accessible and actionable. What stood out the most was the concrete guidance he provided to the founders. They left each session with practical tools and strategies they could immediately apply to enhance the effectiveness of their board meetings. Thanks to Kieran’s engaging approach, founders are equipped to elevate their governance practices, making their board interactions more impactful and productive.”
Kenya
Board Excellence is a leading provider of board and governance training across all sectors of Corporate and Listed stock-market company boards, Investment firms and their portfolio boards, SMEs and Family Businesses, Public Sector, Non-Profit and Charity boards. Our workshops, delivered either in-person or virtually, are customised for the current level of client board/governance sophistication and specific sector. Key focus areas for the training are outlined below. Specific components include;
Key focus areas for the board and director training are outlined below. Specific components include;
- A pre-workshop planning call with the Board Chair, Company Secretary and CEO
- Key focus on real-life case studies and common challenges
- Practical guidance on board and committee effectiveness
- Latest thinking on board dynamics, effectiveness and governance
- Innovative approaches to enabling the Executive team partner effectively with the Non-Executive Directors
As all of the Board Excellence team are serving Board Chairs and Non-Executive Directors, with significant previous executive and senior governance leadership roles, we bring a unique practical experience to board and director training. We also combine our own original thought leadership on board dynamics and effectiveness with our experience of evaluating and supporting a wide range of boards across all sectors across the world.
Some of Our Clients
What Our Clients Say
“Paul, As chair of Table Tennis England, I wanted to thank you for the training session. It was right on point with, I felt, very strong engagement. Learning and developing as a board is very much a component of effectiveness, together with enhancing one’s own perspectives . Your delivery certainly hit the spot.”
“The Board Excellence workshop for PE run by Kieran brought focus to the key areas of what creates an effective board. Furthermore the levels of research and knowledge shared by the Board Excellence team, has enabled us to put together our own framework of best practices, which can now be rolled out throughout our business and portfolio.”
“Kieran and his team have been more than supportive and have always been willing to provide advice and a listening ear and it feels like a genuine partnership arrangement. The knowledge of the team at Board Excellence is first class and their willingness to listen and provide a way forward and through issues is very impressive. Kieran keeps in regular touch and ensures we are up to date with latest developments providing a plethora of relevant and interesting material in the field which is an added bonus and very much appreciated.”
“Efficient and effective boards are an important ingredient in managing and developing high growth businesses. We have worked with Board Excellence to great effect both training our own team in how best to maximise the effectiveness of boards but also with a number of our portfolio companies and chairmen. Board Excellence have great experience and are able to deliver the lessons learned in a coherent and digestible way. We are very happy to be working with them”
“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.”
Canada
“Board Excellence through their specialists Dr. Jonathan Westrup and Mr. Chaka Nkofo demonstrated profound expertise in Executive Management dynamics and succinctly captured the nucleus of the Central Bank of Lesotho requirements for the training. The presenters professionally navigated and sensitively managed the identified topics on roles and responsibilities of the Exco, common Exco challenges and key requirements for an effective Exco, tools required for reaching consensus and effective interaction with the Board. Considering the professional and competent delivery of their engagement, on behalf of the Central Bank of Lesotho, I highly recommend Board Excellence for any board/ corporate governance consultancy opportunities that your company may offer.”
Lesotho
“FMO, the Dutch Development Bank, highly values training of its (potential) nominee directors to support them in the proper performance of their board role thus enabling them to positively contribute to board effectiveness and – dynamics. In Board Excellence we found a diligent, knowledgeable and experienced training institute performing a dedicated nominee director training highly appreciated by the participants.”
Netherlands
“The Boardroom Africa (TBR Africa) seeks to ensure that human capital is fully realised by enhancing awareness of the effectiveness of female leaders. We fulfil that goal in partnership with organisations like Board Excellence. TBR Africa has collaborated with Board Excellence to deliver high level seminars and workshops to our community of leaders on topics including, Resolving Board Conflicts and Leveraging Diversity as a Risk Management Tool. Board Excellence and TBR Africa share a vision that diverse boards make a better world. Our partnership with Board Excellence enabled TBR Africa to fully leverage their deep expertise in governance best practices.”
Ghana
“The training on board management and best practices with Kieran Moynihan, was outstanding. Kieran’s presentation was clear, insightful, and practical. His deep expertise in board dynamics, combined with real-world examples, made complex concepts feel accessible and actionable. What stood out the most was the concrete guidance he provided to the founders. They left each session with practical tools and strategies they could immediately apply to enhance the effectiveness of their board meetings. Thanks to Kieran’s engaging approach, founders are equipped to elevate their governance practices, making their board interactions more impactful and productive.”
Kenya
