Executive committees (management boards) play a central role in driving strategy, decisions, and alignment across the organisation. When they lead well, everything else follows.
Better Boards helps you understand how your executive team really functions – so you can lead more effectively, align around what matters, and deliver with confidence.
Ambitious boards trust Better Boards
Stronger leadership
starts with better
insights
Better Boards helps development leads evaluate how executive teams operate – not just as individuals, but as a collective.
We go beyond traditional leadership advisory to uncover the dynamics that shape performance and look into structures and processes.
With deep expertise in board relationships and strategy execution, our insights help executive committees to work more cohesively, make smarter decisions, and deliver on shared goals.
Built to strengthen the heart of your organisation
Strong executive teams drive stronger governance.
Better Boards helps management boards not only lead better internally, but also engage more effectively with their governing board.
Whether you’re running a fully facilitated review or leading the process internally, our approach reveals how leadership teams really function – beyond the agenda and beyond the individual.
Three ways to evaluate. One powerful platform
Whether you want a fully facilitated review or prefer to lead the process in-house, Better Boards gives you the structure, insight, and behavioural data to understand how your executive committee really works and how to improve it.
External
evaluation
A high-touch, fully facilitated review – ideal for leadership teams navigating change or seeking independent challenge. We manage everything from setup and diagnostics to one-on-one interviews and group sessions. You’ll receive tailored insights for each executive, a dynamic team profile, and a presentation that gets straight to the conversations that matter.
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Internal
evaluation
For organisations that want to stay close to the process but benefit from expert support. We take care of the design, analysis, and reporting – so you can focus on engaging your team in meaningful reflection. With comparative data and structured outputs, you’ll spark development without losing ownership.
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Better Boards
Platform
Our intuitive platform gives you all the tools to run your own evaluation – from building tailored questionnaires to generating insight-rich reports. You still gain access to our benchmarking data and proven framework, so you’re not confined to your own data.
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The “7-Hallmarks of Effective Boards” is our peer-reviewed research,
published in the US, the UK and across Europe by Dr Sabine Dembkowski.
Grounded in research,
proven in practice
The Better Boards approach is grounded in peer-reviewed research: the 7 Hallmarks of Effective Boards. This proprietary methodology is proven to deliver meaningful, measurable results.
Developed by seasoned board advisors and validated internationally, each hallmark is a powerful lever for maximising the performance and effectiveness of both the collective and each individual Executive.
Traditional 360s focus on individual performance. Better Boards goes further and examines how the executive team functions as a whole. It reveals patterns in behaviour and collaboration but also structures and processes of the leadership team’s work, so that you can develop leadership where it matters.
That’s easy. You can run an internal evaluation with our support or use the platform independently. Either way, you gain access to a structured framework, expert-backed outputs, benchmarks and rich comparative data.
The reports highlight individual and collective strengths, identify areas for development, and surface issues that may be holding the team back. They’re designed to prompt high-quality conversations around alignment, decision-making, and team dynamics.
We know your time is limited. Our process is streamlined and efficient, with smart questionnaires, automated reporting, and flexible options for interviews or workshops. The goal is to create impact, not admin.
Absolutely. Many organisations use Better Boards to understand where leadership strengths lie, where overlaps or gaps exist, and how to evolve the team to meet future challenges.
Yes. One key advantage of using Better Boards is access to a growing pool of benchmarks and comparisons. This lets you understand how your team compares to peer organisations, bringing useful context to your results.
Insights for high-performing boards
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