Services

Boardroom Dialogue provides expert guidance on Board Effectiveness Reviews, Board Succession and Board Coaching. Our tailored approach ensures effective governance, strategic succession, and thoughtful development for board members, empowering organisations in today’s dynamic business landscape.

These services fall into three main areas namely:

Board Effectiveness Reviews

Board Effectiveness Reviews are now a well-established part of a good corporate governance cycle of activity. An externally facilitated review is typically undertaken once every three years as part of the cycle.

Sean has developed an approach that is light touch, focused and engaging for participants. This typically takes the form of:

The key to successful effectiveness review is encouraging individual board members to provide relevant, meaningful and clear feedback on not only what is going well in the boardroom but also areas for improvement.

The output is a report that is discussed with the Chairman, and subsequently with the whole board, in order to agree an action plan which can be implemented over the following year or two, and in addition, can be clearly communicated to shareholders in the annual accounts.

Board Succession

Board succession is far more than a process and is often a catalyst for significant change. In particular, Chief Executive succession involves not only transition for a few individuals at the top of the organisation but for the whole organisation. Thus CEO succession is mainly about managing the dynamics of change.

We work constructively with all the key players in a succession situation and our role is to provide support, guidance and act as a Sounding Board for the Chair and, from time to time, the Nominations Committee.

In this role we provide support, and challenge, in respect of a number of different areas including helping the organisation to consider how to:

By its nature, this role means being available at all times to provide guidance on what is evolving and help steer the process to a successful outcome.

Board Coaching

Whether a new Chair, Board member or Committee Chair, we help individuals to prepare for their role by focusing on their personal style and the challenge ahead.

Our approach is all about the individual and we provide a safe space for individuals to share their challenges and we help them to

✔︎develop a range of possible solutions to their challenges
✔︎ explore the potential impact of each outcome
✔︎ prioritise an action plan given their personal style, and
✔︎ focus on the successful outcome of their chosen action

Sean is a qualified executive coach and mentor (having graduated from the Meyler Campbell Mastered coaching programme), plus has many years serving as a board member, and thus brings practical experience as well as a rigorous academic grounding to guide a Board member in their role.

We believe having an experienced “sounding board” can provide critical support and guidance at important moments of transition.

An external contributor can bring independence, insight and challenge as well as act as a catalyst for action

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