Together, we build trust that fosters commitment.
Drawing on our experience, we help shareholders and boards of directors exercise their power with clarity by guiding strategic decisions, overseeing their implementation, and aligning the interests of all parties.
Intervene where the relationship between shareholders and executive management is built or breaks down.
After 40 years as a consultant and board member, we have expertise in the three dimensions that form the foundation of effective shareholder governance.
Provide strategic direction and the associated resources that executive management can endorse and implement.
Discuss based on information provided by executive management.
Monitor implementation without confusing oversight with interference in management.
Five areas of support for value-creating governance.
Our experience with boards of directors has taught us that governance failures almost always stem from the same root cause: a lack of clarity regarding roles, processes, or expectations. We intervene to resolve these issues.
Strategic planning
Structure the dialogue between shareholders and executive management on decisions that shape the group's future.
We help build a strategic planning process in which the board plays a substantial role — not merely validation, but an exchange of key directions with executive management, culminating in a shared strategic narrative.
Implementation monitoring
Enable the board to monitor strategy execution without substituting for management.
We design oversight mechanisms — board dashboards, risk management, structured interactions with executive management members — that enable shareholders to exercise their oversight responsibility with discernment.
Strategic committee
Define the existence, composition, role, and work of a strategic committee.
When well-designed, the strategic committee is a powerful lever for deepening the understanding of issues between the board and management. We help define its scope and operating procedures so that it creates real value.
Human alignment
Address the most critical issues for trust between shareholders and executives.
Succession plans, incentive policies, executive management evaluation: these topics are often conspicuously absent from board discussions. We structure them with the rigor and discretion they demand.
Board evaluation
Evaluate the board's operations against the group's actual strategic challenges.
We assess the board's composition, skills, and working methods in light of the challenges the company faces — and provide concrete recommendations on its organization and renewal.
Realigning the Board of Directors of a major European airline group with its strategic challenges
Improving the operating procedures of the Board of Directors to empower the new group and its leadership for success.
