Become a Better Boards partner and deliver richer, smarter board evaluations – without the burden of building your own platform.
Whether you advise governing boards or executive committees (management boards), Better Boards gives you the tools to evaluate with confidence.
Deepen client impact, unlock new revenue opportunities, and lead the conversation on board effectiveness.
Ambitious boards trust Better Boards
Your brand.
Our platform.
You bring the relationships, insight, and expertise. We’ll bring the platform, research, and rich data.
Our fully flexible system lets you tailor questions by role, compare perspectives, and generate data-rich outputs that fuel meaningful conversations. Our platform can even be fully white-labelled to reflect your branding – including questionnaires and reports.
A data-driven platform that gives you a powerful edge
Better Boards helps professional service firms deliver sharper, more impactful board advice.
With access to rich data and a proven evaluation framework, you can uncover deeper insights, benchmark performance, and guide your clients toward meaningful, lasting change.
You’re not limited to your client’s responses. The platform draws on a growing body of benchmarks and comparative data, allowing you to provide more objective and richer insights.
That means more meaningful analysis, more informed conversations, and more compelling recommendations.
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.
Licensed Partners
Our licensed partners have full access to the Better Boards platform, including all functionalities and comprehensive benchmarking data. These firms have seamlessly integrated our solution into their service offerings, ensuring they can deliver the highest standards of board evaluation and development.
Egon Zehnder is the world's preeminent leadership advisory firm. Egon Zehnder Consultants serve clients across all industries, corporate functions, and ownership structures, going beyond executive search to include a full suite of leadership advisory services. We have trained and licensed Partners in the German-speaking region – Germany, Austria, and Switzerland – in our methodology and use of our platform.
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AvS Advisors, established in 2011, supports family businesses, family offices, and private companies in strategic governance and management. Operating under a ‘One Firm’ principle, its international team shares expertise to deliver high-impact solutions with an almost 100% success rate. As a certified B Corporation, AvS is committed to sustainability and corporate responsibility, helping clients secure long-term success through responsible leadership and resilient ownership structures.
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Collaboration Partners
Our collaboration partners complement what we do by offering services that align with and extend the value of Better Boards. Some provide solutions that enrich our ecosystem, while others, for strategic reasons, have chosen not to offer board evaluation directly.
Management Alliance is a qualification platform for professional supervisory board work and a certified course provider of Deutsche Börse AG. The team led by governance expert Gabriele Bornemann is proud of a 100% success rate in the examinations organised by the German stock exchange and its contribution to defining the standards for a new generation of supervisory board members.
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Actionable insights for every
board member
Turn diagnostics into action. Every Director gets tailored, practical insight – no generic feedback, just clear guidance on where to focus for real impact. At board level, you get a shared view of strengths and dynamics, making it easier to align, collaborate, and perform.
Backed by the only peer-reviewed framework of its kind, the platform brings credibility and clarity to your recommendations. Reports are action-ready, designed to prompt the right conversations and support lasting change – whether you’re advising on leadership, succession, or governance.
Own the client experience,
end to end
Strengthen your market presence with every engagement.
Better Boards seamlessly supports your service. The platform is fully white-labelled, so your clients see your brand—not ours. From login to report delivery, you own the experience.
We handle the costly software development and maintenance, while you focus on strengthening your position as a trusted board advisor.
The Better Boards platform is fully customisable to reflect your brand, so every client interaction reinforces your identity and expertise.
Branded questionnaires
and reports
Every touchpoint reflects your identity, from the questions you ask to the insights you share.
Your look and feel,
end-to-end
We match your visual guidelines across the platform for a consistent and professional experience.
Insight beyond
internal data
From day one, you get access to richer comparative data than you could generate alone: helping you deliver insight with real weight.
Data-driven, designed for impact
Better Boards provides objective insights that drive better decisions.
Better Boards puts you in control of the evaluation process, with tools that adapt to your clients, your methods, and your workflow.
Tailor every
questionnaire
Add, remove, or customise questions based on role, board type, or strategic priorities. It’s built to flex around your expertise.
Compare perspectives
with clarity
Explore how different perspectives show up across the board – where views align, where they diverge, and where there’s room for informed conversations.
Guided, yet in
your hands
You’re supported every step of the way, with clear prompts, automation, and intuitive interfaces – without losing ownership of the process.
Better Boards enhances your existing approach by providing data-driven insights and a structured framework for evaluation. It helps you go deeper, faster – bringing clarity, credibility, and impact to your board-level engagements.
Yes. We offer flexible options for white labelling or co-branding, so you can integrate Better Boards seamlessly into your service offering while maintaining your firm’s identity.
Our platform is built on an internationally published and peer-reviewed framework for board effectiveness. It combines behavioural data, peer benchmarking, and actionable outputs – moving beyond compliance and box-ticking to deliver real value for clients.
Better Boards doesn’t just identify structural gaps but also behavioural dynamics, role clarity, and patterns of interaction. This gives you deeper insight into what’s driving or stalling board performance, which means sharper recommendations and more effective support.
Yes. Better Boards is used by both governing and management boards (executive committees) across sectors – from listed companies and private firms to public bodies and nonprofits.
Insights for high-performing boards
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