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We bring clarity and context, so you can make the decisions and have the conversations that matter.
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Two board seats and the CFO, all critical to the 2029 plan.
- 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
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The world's best board performance diagnostics
Each year we run hundreds of rigorous board, director and CEO diagnostics. They are the definitive health check for the board. They turn opinion into evidence and lay the foundation for the benchmarks, OutlookIQ and the advantage built on them.
Board evaluation
Challenging, engaging evaluations that get directors thinking and talking, not ticking boxes.
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Skills matrix
A clear, comprehensive read on director capability, across the skills that matter most to your board.
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Director 360
Honest, confidential feedback for every director, so each person contributes at their best.
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Committee evaluation
Hold Audit, Risk, Remuneration and every committee to the same standard, in one benchmarked view.
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CEO 360
Lead and support your CEO with a clear, structured read from right across the board.
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The executive performance suite
The same board-grade rigour, extended to the executive team the board leads.
Explore the suite →The world's best diagnostics and reporting are just the start of delivering competitive advantage through your boardroom.
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.
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
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
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 available and there for every decision, getting sharper with every one.
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Everything a great consultant gives you, and everything they never could.
Leading a board is hard. We are the partner behind your success
The people accountable for a board carry the weight of every decision that matters. BoardOutlook stands behind chairs, committee chairs, CEOs and the people who support them, turning that weight into clarity.
Chairs & directors
Committee chairs
CEOs & CPOs
Company secretaries
Private capital
Consultants
Supporting you beyond the platform: Join the Global Directors Council
A global community of directors, built on four pillars. We connect them through events, introduce them to the right peers, sharpen their thinking with content, and show how boards are really performing.
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
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
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.
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
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, BoardOutlookSee the clarity for yourself
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