Whether you’re evaluating a governing board, a management board, or supporting your clients as a professional advisor, our platform delivers structured, insight-led evaluations that go beyond compliance to reveal how boards really operate, align, and perform.
Choose the path that fits your role, and discover how Better Boards can help you lead smarter, drive impact, and deliver lasting value.
Ambitious boards trust Better Boards
Every board is different, but the need for clarity, alignment, and performance is universal. Whether you’re leading from within, supporting boards or executive teams, or advising clients across sectors, Better Boards gives you the tools and insights to evaluate what matters most – and act on it.
Governing
boards
Today’s boards are expected to do more, under greater scrutiny. Better Boards helps you reflect on how your board really operates – from behaviours and dynamics to structures and processes. Whether you choose an internal or external evaluation, you’ll gain clear, objective insights that support stronger governance and better outcomes.
EXPLORE SOLUTIONS FOR GOVERNING BOARDS
Executive committees (management boards)
Leadership teams drive strategy, decisions, and delivery across the business. But even high-performing teams benefit from time to reflect. Better Boards helps executive committees strengthen collaboration, sharpen alignment, and lead with greater clarity by surfacing the patterns and dynamics behind performance.
EXPLORE SOLUTIONS FOR MANAGEMENT BOARDS
Professional services (partners)
Better Boards offers a research-backed platform you can trust – and tailor to your brand. Deliver high-impact board evaluations, access comprehensive benchmarking data from day one, and unlock new value for your clients, without the burden of building and maintaining your own platform.
EXPLORE PARTNER SOLUTIONS
Smart software powering smarter governance
Secure, intelligent, and built for board effectiveness.
At the core of every Better Boards evaluation – whether internal or fully facilitated – is a powerful platform designed to bring structure, clarity, and depth to the process.
With AI-enhanced analysis, customisable questionnaires, rich benchmarking data, and tailored reporting, the platform gives you objective insight you can trust – grounded in evidence, not opinion.
It’s ISO 27001-certified, built for ease of use, and scalable across one board or many. Whether you’re running evaluations independently or with our expert support, you get consistent, objective insight that drives meaningful improvement.
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 Director.
Not at all, but you can if you want to. The Better Boards platform is easy to use and designed to support both self-led and externally facilitated evaluations. You can run your own review with full access to our structure, tools, and insights, or work with our experienced advisors for added support.
Yes. We work with a range of advisory firms who use Better Boards to deliver evaluations for their clients. The platform is fully white-labelled, so you can apply your own branding while benefiting from our research-backed tools and data.
Absolutely. Better Boards is certified to ISO 27001 – the international standard for information security. Your data is protected at every stage of the evaluation process.
Yes. All evaluations include access to anonymised comparative data – so you can see how your board stacks up against peer organisations, and where there’s room to grow.
Insights for high-performing boards
Gain new insights and fresh perspectives from our research, analysis and podcast series
