Drive Effectiveness with Strategic Board Performance Evaluation
Our Board Advisory Services help unlock your leadership's potential by transforming evaluations into strategic assets that drive excellence and confidently position your organisation for future success.
Accelerate Meaningful Growth Through Strategic Partnership
Nasdaq's Board Advisory Team transforms board evaluations into strategic assets across all industries. Our experts partner with clients to design evaluations, conduct interviews, analyse findings and convert results into actionable insights that drive board effectiveness.
Board Evaluations for Tomorrow's Boardrooms, Today
Reimagine board evaluations for maximum impact
We partner with public, private and non-profit boards to design evaluations that drive continuous improvement and healthy dynamics. Track your board's year-over-year progress with our Board Advisory Team supporting you every step of the way.
Develop board evaluations that align with your objectives
A board evaluation is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Our Board Advisory Team tailors written evaluations and director interview processes to meet your board's unique governance objectives. By refining interview questions and approaches, we can help you unlock deeper insights from your board.
Meet Our Expert Team
Drawing on firsthand experience as C-suite executives, general counsel, and directors across all industries and organisations, our team understands what it takes to run a successful board.
Byron Loflin
Global Head of Board Advisory
View full biographyPhil Neiswender, Esq.
Head of Board Advisory, Americas & Asia Pacific
View full biographyKaley Childs Karaffa, Esq.
Head of Board Advisory, Americas
View full biographyJames Beasley
Head of Board Advisory, Europe, Middle East & Africa
View full biographyCharles Neidenbach
Director of Board Advisory, Nasdaq
View full biographyThe path to board evaluation excellence
Fuel Board Excellence with a Well-Executed Evaluation
A strategically designed board evaluation process can foster a constant desire to improve. Our board evaluations encourage continual reflection, candid discussion and, most importantly, focused action.
Team Up With Experienced Board Facilitators
Our third-party analysis reveals board strengths and performance gaps, enabling directors to leverage their unique perspectives and drive enhanced board effectiveness.
Convert Analysis Into Actionable Board Strategies
Our board evaluation process turns feedback into productive discussions and key action points. Use the results to show management, employees and investors your dedication to the organisation's performance and stakeholders.
Add value at every stage of evaluation
Partner with a Global Leader in Board Evaluations
Gain Deeper Insight into Board Evaluations
Orange Sky
Learn how the board at Orange Sky engaged Nasdaq Governance Solutions and Board Matters to evaluate its board, governance framework and strategic focus, resulting in a clear picture of board dynamics, priorities and practices.
Orange Sky5 Keys to Enhancing Governance Excellence with Board Assessments
A well-designed board evaluation process identifies opportunities for improvement and turns director feedback into action. Working with a third party can help ensure customised and streamlined design and facilitation. Find out more about the elements of a well-designed board evaluation process and how a third party can help.
5 Keys to Enhancing Governance Excellence with Board AssessmentsHow to Be an Effective Board Member
Shifting dynamics in the boardroom may affect the board's effectiveness. To revitalise and refresh dynamics in the boardroom, assess the board's composition. Here’s a closer look at the traits that help foster healthy dynamics, as well as potential barriers to being an effective board member.
How to Be an Effective Board MemberCognitive Diversity and Board Performance
Cognitive diversity is a prerequisite for effective decision-making by boards. It's not enough for directors to be gender and ethnically diverse: improved board performance demands they are cognitively diverse. Here's a closer look at the transformative effect of cognitive diversity on board performance.
Cognitive Diversity and Board PerformanceThe value of board evaluations
A well-designed board evaluation is key to driving director engagement and improving board effectiveness. Learn why boards should conduct board evaluations, how to optimise the process and why a third-party facilitator may help promote the candour of director responses and offer an independent perspective.
The value of board evaluationsIdentifying Biases in the Boardroom
Effective boards understand the link between openness, self-awareness and biases – and how they may affect decision-making. Boards often rely on individual directors to recognise and control their own biases. To do so, directors must first understand some of the different types of biases outlined in the Cognitive Bias Codex.
Identifying Biases in the BoardroomSuccession planning: preparations for the inevitable
Corporate Secretary's 'Succession planning: Preparations for the inevitable' report presents data collected from a survey conducted among in-house governance professionals such as general counsel and company secretaries. It provides important insights into, among other things, who is typically in charge of succession planning, who and what is included in plans and how often boards review their company's plans.
Read the reportBoard Due for a Tune-Up? Get Aligned with Board Evaluations
Consider your organisation's board and management team: Is there room for improvement? Based on the Nasdaq Governance Solutions board engagement team's discussions with boards, the answer is typically "yes."
Read the ArticleBoard Evaluations Factsheet
Board evaluations help identify continuous improvement opportunities for your board, promote board and management alignment, and turn director feedback into strategic action. Learn how Nasdaq Governance Solutions customises the board evaluation process and provides actionable reporting to help you build a better board.
Board Evaluations FactsheetCEO & Management Evaluations Factsheet
CEO & Management Evaluations FactsheetNasdaq EnGauge Security Factsheet
The Nasdaq EnGauge platform has multiple security measures in place to help safeguard sensitive board data. Find out more about its industry-standard certifications, application security, infrastructure security, personnel security and process security.
Nasdaq EnGauge Security FactsheetWhy Nasdaq Governance Solutions factsheet
Nasdaq Governance Solutions provides a suite of governance technologies that enables boards and leadership teams to work at peak performance. See why our solutions are trusted by thousands of public, private and non-profit organisations worldwide and how we stack up against the competition.
Why Nasdaq Governance Solutions factsheetNasdaq Board Evaluations vs. Nasdaq Boardvantage Surveys
With Nasdaq Governance Solutions, you can identify continuous improvement opportunities for your board, promote board and management alignment and turn board member feedback into strategic action. Whether partnering with The Nasdaq Board Advisory team to develop effective and customisable evaluation processes from start to finish, or simply surveying board members with Nasdaq Boardvantage, we have the people and technology to ensure your board and leadership teams operate at peak performance.
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