The world's dedicated
board assessment firm.
For three decades we have helped boards and C-suite leaders perform — bringing the discipline of assessment science to the decisions that shape the world's most demanding organisations.
We exist to make boards measurably better.
The world's leading boards no longer rely on impressions and self-report. They rely on evidence. Where traditional search and evaluation firms stop at the CV and the questionnaire, we measure what actually determines effectiveness — how directors think, how teams behave under pressure, and how well a board governs the decisions that matter most.
Our work spans three disciplines that most firms treat separately: we assess boards and executives with validated psychometrics, we coach the leaders who run them, and we place directors and C-suite talent through assessment-led search. The result is a single, coherent view of leadership capability — and the rigour to act on it.
Evidence, not impression
We measure what drives boardroom performance and let the data lead.
Rigour and defensibility
Our methods stand up to regulators, shareholders and the courts.
Discretion at the top
We operate confidentially in the most sensitive rooms in business.
Global perspective
Cross-border insight informed by governance practice worldwide.
Engagements across more than 40 countries.
We support boards and leadership teams on every populated continent, combining local governance fluency with a consistent, globally benchmarked methodology.
A specialist network behind every engagement
No single firm holds all the capability the modern board requires. We partner with leading specialist institutions in cognitive science, governance, coaching and inclusion to give our clients a depth of expertise that is genuinely best-in-class.
Cerelbic
Our cognitive science partner, providing the validated cognitive and neuro-diversity assessment that underpins our board composition and director profiling work.
Global Institute of Directors
A worldwide body for director education and governance standards, supporting our board members and clients with accredited director development.
World Coaching Institute
A global coaching accreditation body underpinning our executive coaching and mentoring practice with certified, evidence-based coaching standards.
1Diversity
Our DEI partner, bringing data-driven equity analytics and inclusion expertise to board composition, representation and culture engagements.
Grounded in the world's leading research
Our methodology is informed by, and developed in collaboration with, leading universities and research centres in governance, organisational psychology and leadership science. This academic foundation is what separates evidence-based assessment from opinion.
United Kingdom & Europe
- University of Oxford — Saïd Business School
- University of Cambridge — Judge Business School
- London Business School
- INSEAD (France & Singapore)
- IMD Business School (Switzerland)
- IESE Business School (Spain)
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
North America
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- MIT Sloan School of Management
- The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Yale School of Management
- Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Asia-Pacific
- National University of Singapore Business School
- Melbourne Business School
- Australian Institute of Company Directors network
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Indian School of Business
Middle East & Africa
- University of Cape Town — Graduate School of Business
- Gordon Institute of Business Science (South Africa)
- INSEAD Middle East (Abu Dhabi)
Research centres we draw on
Institutional collaborations vary by engagement and research programme. We are happy to discuss the specific academic partnerships relevant to your mandate.
Let's talk about your board.
Arrange a confidential conversation with our team about an assessment-led review of your board or leadership team.