The operating system for leaders at the top

Get the best from your board and teams at the top

We bring clarity and context, so you can make the decisions and have the conversations that matter.

Trusted by the most significant boards in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa

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What your peers are asking OutlookIQ right now

  • Skills matrixStrategy deck
  • Director 360Board evaluation
  • Skills matrix,Committee evaluation
  • CEO 360Global peer benchmarks
  • Board evaluationObjectives
  • Board evaluationGlobal peer benchmarks
  • Board evaluationCommittee evaluation
  • CEO 360Strategy deck

Trusted by 50+ ASX200 and FTSE100 boards

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Our promise

The rare clarity to get the most out of your board and teams at the top

The work at the top is people work. BoardOutlook gives you an ongoing, honest read on the team you lead, so you can make the decisions and have the conversations that matter.

Act decisively

See what's true today, not last year. Move with conviction when it counts.

Stay ahead of alignment risks

Spot the alignment gaps, tensions and capability blind spots before they become the story.

Make hard decisions with full context

Every perspective in the room, benchmarked against peers, in front of you when you need it.

Get the best from each individual

Lead each director and executive in the way that brings out their sharpest contribution.

So you can deliver on your full remit, capture the opportunity for the organisation, and ensure your long-term legacy.

What BoardOutlook delivers for you

How we deliver moments of rare clarity

Five capabilities, each world-class in its own right, all built around one thing: a precise understanding of what winning looks like for you and your organisation.

An entire solution built around what winning looks like for you: your remit, opportunity and legacy

World-class diagnostics

Compelling board, skills and CEO diagnostics. Like bloodwork at the doctor. Necessary, and the foundation for everything else.

Global benchmark data

Nearly a decade of data, from hundreds of processes each year across the world's best boards. It covers board performance, skills and composition, and CEO performance.

The always on, intelligent advisor

OutlookIQ, the intelligent advisor and dynamic dashboards. It reasons over your own data to answer the questions that matter, on demand.

Global Directors Council

Access to unique global perspectives, and warm introductions to directors at peer organisations worldwide.

True partnership

A relationship supported by people who deeply understand the challenges of your role, and your objectives for success.

OutlookIQ - your intelligent advisor

The intelligent advisor that delivers rare clarity in every conversation and decision

Professional, board-grade AI, focused only on getting the best out of your board. It does the analytical work of an advisor, and does it better. Present in every decision and grounded in your board's own history, it is there only to make you better.

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Evidence

Comprehensive benchmarks and best practice

Integrates thousands of benchmark data points from hundreds of the world's best boards, so the answer is what the best actually did, not one person's best guess.

Full context, for every question
Memory

Full context, for every question

Upload all your strategic context, and OutlookIQ holds your board's full history too, this year read against every year before.

Validated data, in minutes
Speed

Validated data, in minutes

Deep analysis at the pace of thought, validated and sourced from primary data, so your board can rely on it.

In the room every day, not once a year
Always on

In the room every day, not once a year

Always available and there for every decision, getting sharper with every one.

This is OutlookIQ, the intelligence at the heart of the platform. See how it works →

Everything a great consultant gives you, and everything they never could.

Events Events

Meaningful connections, in the room and online

Peer gatherings that put you alongside directors facing the same questions, across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa.

  • Director roundtables Small-group, closed-door discussion
  • Governance briefings Live sessions on what is changing now
  • Member gatherings In person and online, across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa
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Book Content

The Resolution

Sharp, practical writing and podcasts on the craft of governance, published for directors, not consultants.

  • Beyond the BBC's crisis: how governance failures can build better boards Steve Pell · Board reviews
  • The AI Maturity Framework for Boards Tania Cabrera & Steve Pell · Board performance
  • The 9% problem: why boards leave chair succession too late Steve Pell · Chair leadership
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data Data

Quarterly benchmark insights

Nearly a decade of data, from hundreds of processes each year across the world's best boards. What it reveals about how boards are really performing, refreshed every quarter, benchmarked and anonymised.

20%
of directors say their chair gives them great feedback. The kind of signal our quarterly data surfaces for the community.
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Introductions Introductions

Facilitated introductions to your global peers

Tell us what you are wrestling with, and we make a warm, one-to-one introduction to a director at a peer organisation who has faced the same thing.

  • Tell us what you need A governance question, or a first-time situation
  • We find the right peer Personally matched from across the community
  • A warm introduction With context on both sides, anywhere in the world
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About BoardOutlook

No chair does board performance for its own sake. You do it because it makes your organisation more likely to win. BoardOutlook is designed for boards and leaders who know competitive advantage starts in the boardroom.

Steven L Pell Founder, BoardOutlook

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Speak to someone who knows this world, or step straight into the live product and see it for yourself.

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