Contact Boardvisory if your company is interest in achieving Target 5.C Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
Joy-Marie Lawrence
Your Coach in the Boardroom
Boardvisory’s purpose is to cultivate courageous conversations that enable effective boardroom decision-making.
Boardvisory is a team of specialists in board-specific professional services, particularly Boardroom Coaching and Boardroom Consulting.
Our company exists to help aspirant and established board directors cultivate the competencies needed for better boards and exceptional boardroom decision-making. Competent board directors integrate their functional capabilities with their personal attributes – as well as intellectual curiosity, self-awareness, and passion – to enable effective decision-making that benefits profits, people, and the planet. And the boardroom of the future requires an evolving set of skills and behaviours.
Understanding which competencies are needed for the Boardroom and how to use them effectively in the Boardroom is critical to your development as a Board Director.
What competent Board Directors are able to do is, effectively integrate their functional competencies with their personal competencies in decision-making in the Boardroom.
Why would a board need assistance from Boardvisory?
- A board of directors is a leadership team whose effectiveness, culture, and modes of operation can cause an organisation to struggle, survive, or succeed.
- Board directors’ character, life experience, biases, beliefs, emotional intelligence and cultural sensitivities are additional elements at play in the boardroom.
- Dysfunctional boards and negligent or inadequate directors can prejudice an organisations’ performance.
- The new world brings with it new variables and considerations, including diversity, equality & inclusion (DE&I); data privacy; shareholder activism; cybersecurity; intellectual property; machine learning; and AI.
Boardvisory team are all experienced Board Directors and coaches who recognise the unique demands of Board Directors’ duties and the competencies needed for the Boardroom.
Using an approach that is flexible and entrepreneurial, Boardvisory’s team has extensive boardroom experience – as well as coaching experience in the boardroom.
Leading from the Boardroom
Our niche framework has been designed by experienced board directors, who recognise the unique demands of board directors’ duties and relationships. This is how we are able to create transformative value for boards and stakeholders.
Boardroom Coaching is different to Executive Coaching
Boardroom coaching is a niche offering by skilled and qualified professionals with experience in Board governance and proven competence in coaching.
A Boardroom coach has a professional qualification of coaching and has passed a globally recognised coach knowledge assessment and has demonstrated competence in coaching. A Boardroom coach also has a professional qualification or certification from an internationally recognised governance body.
Boardroom coaching is a type of coaching practice regulated by professional bodies with codes of ethics.
The Boardroom of the future requires an evolving set of competencies and behaviours for board directors.
Boardvisory Services
Boardroom Coaching
Ever wondered why some board meetings are effective and others are not? Ever considered whether the behaviour of a board director influences their decision-making abilities? Ever noticed the consequences of different individuals’ thinking and conversation styles?
Board Simulation
Would you like to experience a meeting in the Boardroom? Come and attend a Board Simulation. Increase your knowledge and confidence in your boardroom capabilities, have awareness of developmental areas, and make positive progress in your boardroom journey.
Mentoring in the Boardroom
Joining a new board can be a daunting experience as traversing unfamiliar new terrain comes with many unexpected challenges. It takes a while to figure out what is expected of you and how things work in this new environment. Despite the various briefings, inductions and prior reading you may have received, it is not unusual to feel like a bit of an outsider at first. Board Director Mentoring is the answer.
Executive Coaching for the boardroom
Executive Directors are often the interface with the board. Navigating how to get the most from your Board to achieve effective decision-making is critical. Journey with a professional coach to maximize your personal and professional development.
Boardvisory supports women in their journey to the boardroom by hosting workshops, coaching aspiring women directors, and mentoring women.
Boardvisory Supports the SDG Goal 5 of Achieving gender equality
Boardvisory as a women-owned business in the corporate governance arena advocates strongly for the inclusion of women on corporate, public and non-profit boards. Not only does this support SDG 5 but it also improves company performance as evidenced by the following research findings:
“The empirical evidence is also consistent with the 2030 Sustainable Agenda adopted by the UN and confirms that a full and effective presence of women on BoD is an important trigger for corporate governance mechanisms able to influence value creation processes and, more specifically, firm sustainability performance”