Board Composition

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Board Composition Board Effectiveness

68%

of high-performing boards carry out evaluations that improve performance, including looking at board composition.

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As your organization evolves, so must your board. You need board leaders who will take you where you need to go—not where you are today.

We help you assess and design a board composition with the right mix of roles, expertise, and experiences—ensuring you have the strategic oversight needed to respond to industry shifts, anticipate opportunities, and drive transformative change.

The board composition questions we help you answer

We recognize that you're not just filling board seats—you're architecting the strategic governance that will define your organization's trajectory.

We help you address critical questions you may have about your board, so you can truly drive organizational excellence.

Will your board members bring transformative insights beyond traditional industry perspectives?
Can your board effectively guide the organization through emerging challenges like AI transformation, sustainability, and global economic volatility?
Do your board members represent the diverse expertise required to challenge effectively?
Will your board composition foster robust strategic dialogue and independent thinking?

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Evolving your board for tomorrow’s challenges

We help you assess and curate your board composition to ensure you have the strategic insight and specialized knowledge to guide your organization through incremental improvements as well as transformative change.

	Architect your board's future It's no longer about filling seats. Every board member should be a purposeful addition, so we help you craft board compositions that act as powerful strategic frameworks to unlock your organization's full potential. Whether you’re introducing transformative expertise, we ensure your board is a catalyst for innovation and performance.

	Align composition with strategic vision We conduct comprehensive assessments to understand your strategic goals, current board dynamics, and future challenges. Our approach ensures each board composition recommendation is precision-engineered to accelerate your organization’s vision.

	Build adaptive leadership teams Effective boards are more than collections of individual talents—they're dynamic networks of complementary capabilities. We analyze board chemistry and collective expertise to design compositions that break through conventional thinking and generate breakthrough strategies.

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Meet our board composition lead

Rich Fields is a trusted advisor to boards and corporate leaders who regularly ask him to customize and deliver annual board and director assessments, benchmark boards against both peers and evolving investor and ESG standards, avoid or mitigate activist vulnerabilities, and develop more productive relationships with their largest and most influential shareholders. He also partners with clients on thoughtful board refreshment and CEO and other leadership succession events.

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