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Assess for Success: CEO & Management Evaluation & Insights

Promote strategic board-management alignment, foster strong leadership, assess performance, and identify opportunities for improvement with the design and implementation of CEO and management evaluations from our Board Advisory team.

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Overview

An Effective and Customizable Evaluation Process

Our Evaluation Process

Third-party CEO and management evaluations unlock honest insights that drive meaningful change—empowering leaders to evolve beyond traditional assessment approaches and create lasting impact for their teams.

Our Method, Your Advantage

Transform how your organization measures leadership—creating CEO and management evaluation processes that inspire growth, strengthen trust, and elevate both leaders and their teams.

Results That Move the Needle

We deliver aggregated, actionable reports with infographics, qualitative and quantitative analyses, and year-over-year comparative data—then facilitate transformative discussions that turn insights into decisive action, empowering leaders to drive meaningful progress.

Features

Forge Partnerships That Drive Leadership Transformation

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Evaluations


  • Promote board and management alignment through the evaluation process.
  • Use our CEO assessment questionnaire to initiate conversations about CEO compensation and performance.
  • Deepen engagement through randomized and anonymous reporting.

Management & Leadership Team Evaluations


  • Review team culture and skills and identify areas for focus and improvement.
  • Third-party administration fosters candor by anonymizing the responses.
  • Gain a deeper understanding of management team dynamics.
  • Advance strategic execution opportunities and drive value to stakeholders.
Meet the Board

Meet Our Trusted Team Members

From firsthand experience as C-suite executives, general counsel, and directors across all industries and organizations, our team understands what it takes to run a successful board.

Byron Loflin

Global Head of Board Advisory

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Phil Neiswender, Esq.

Head of Board Advisory, Americas & Asia Pacific

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Kaley Childs Karaffa, Esq.

Head of Board Advisory, Americas

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James Beasley

Head of Board Advisory, Europe, Middle East & Africa

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Charles Neidenbach

Director of Board Advisory, Nasdaq

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Our Impact

A Global Leader in CEO & Management Evaluations

1000+

Projects Completed

$10.2

Trillion Market Cap

39%

Fortune 500 Clients

Reporting Tools

Building Tomorrow's Leaders: Essential Actions for Lasting Impact

Heat Map

Find clarity with a visual representation of responses to the evaluation questions.

Action Areas

Gain insight with a high-level summary of the CEO’s areas for growth and focus.

SWOT Diagram

Map the CEO’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats based on evaluation responses.

Comparative Data

Build holistic understanding of CEO performance with data comparing director and officer perspectives and year-over-year results.

Our Platform

The Governance Platform Built for Modern Boards

Resources Library

Gain More Insight to CEO & Management Evaluations

Case Studies Best Practices Governance Insights Factsheets
Case Study

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 Sky
Guide

5 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 customized and streamlined design and facilitation. Learn 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 Assessments
Guide

How to Be an Effective Board Member

Shifting dynamics in the boardroom may impact the board’s effectiveness. To re-energize and refresh dynamics in the boardroom, evaluate the board’s composition. Here’s a closer look at the traits that help encourage healthy dynamics, as well as potential barriers to being an effective board members.

How to Be an Effective Board Member
Guide

Cognitive 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 Performance
Guide

The Value in Board Evaluations

A well-designed board evaluation is key for driving director engagement and boosting board effectiveness. Learn why boards should conduct board evaluations, how to optimize the process, and why a third-party facilitator may help promote the candor of director responses and offer an independent perspective.

The Value in Board Evaluations
Guide

Identifying Biases in the Boardroom

Effective boards understand the link between openness, self-awareness, and biases—and how they may impact decision-making. Boards often rely on individual directors to recognize 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 Boardroom
Report

Succession 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 corporate secretaries. It provides important insights into, among other things, who typically is in charge of succession planning, who and what is included in plans and how often boards review their company’s plans.

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Article

Board Due for a Tune-Up? Get Aligned with Board Evaluations

Consider your organization’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.”

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Factsheet

CEO & Management Evaluations Factsheet

CEO & Management Evaluations Factsheet
Factsheet

Board 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 customizes the board evaluation process and provides actionable reporting to help you build a better board.

Board Evaluations Factsheet
Factsheet

Nasdaq EnGauge Security Factsheet

The Nasdaq EnGauge platform has multiple security measures in place to help safeguard sensitive board data. Learn more about its industry standard certifications, application security, infrastructure security, personnel security, and process security.

Nasdaq EnGauge Security Factsheet
Factsheet

Why 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 nonprofit organizations worldwide and how we stack up against the competition.

Why Nasdaq Governance Solutions Factsheet
Factsheet

Nasdaq 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 customizable 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.

Nasdaq Board Evaluations vs. Nasdaq Boardvantage Surveys Factsheet

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