Working with boards

With over 30 years’ experience in the boardroom as CFO, executive director and non-executive director, David is much sought after as a boardroom coach, advisor, trainer and facilitator, which enables Coaching Futures to provide a complete range of services to boards:

• Boardroom coaching and mentoring *
• Board and committee evaluation and effectiveness reviews **
• Board member skills audits
• Succession planning strategy, including how to achieve greater diversity on the board
• Training for new and aspiring directors
• Master classes for experienced directors
• Tailored in-house training for boards and professional advisors
• Advice for board chairs, CEOs, CFOs and corporate governance directors
• Compliance checks against adopted codes of governance
• Supporting board and executive engagement with regulators, including including preparation for governance aspects of forthcoming regulatory inspections
• Facilitating board member appraisals: 360 degree and external stakeholder feedback
• Facilitating board strategy days and events
• Observing boards and committees at work

*Our deep knowledge and expertise, built upon having worked for more than three decades inside and alongside boards to achieve excellence in governance, has resulted in the development of Ten Steps to become a High Performing Board© which will be published as a boardroom coaching manual available to Chairs, CEOs, board directors, trustees and governance officers in 2025.

**Coaching Futures has created a unique board evaluation service called Board Measures, an outcomes-focused approach to measuring board effectiveness.  Board Measures provides valuable data and analysis about a board’s effectiveness, from the smallest charitable trust boards to the largest global corporate business boards, across private, public, NGO and other non-profit sectors.

For information about how Board Measures can evaluate the effectiveness of your enterprise’s board, press [here: hyperlink to Board Measures page]