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Strategic services for Boards

• Board Recruitment
We identify and attract the right profiles for board roles – with a strong focus on diversity, capabilities, and strategic fit.

• Board Evaluation
Structured evaluations that generate insight, strengthen governance, and enhance board dynamics.

• Board Advisory
Strategic guidance on governance, succession, and board roles – grounded in best practice and regulatory requirements.

• Board Workshops
Facilitated sessions designed to strengthen collaboration, board dynamics, and future-skill readiness.

• Renumeration and Board Complexity Index (BCI)
An objective, data-driven tool for benchmarking board remuneration.

How to Build a Successful Board Career
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We are seeing that more and more boards are using board evaluations proactively as a strategic tool – not because they have to, but because they want to develop and improve.

In a time where the demands on boards are increasing rapidly – spanning strategy, risk, technological fluency, and geopolitics – it is no longer enough to simply “keep up.” Boards must be truly forward-looking.

Board evaluations create an opportunity to:
· Establish a shared understanding of the board’s current position
· Adjust direction, roles, and composition as a natural response to evolving competency needs
· Strengthen collaboration with the executive leadership team
· And most importantly – enhance value creation and inspire future-focused thinking

This is not only about governance – it is about performance, value creation, and an effective partnership between board and executive leadership. The most impactful evaluations are tailored to the board’s maturity and combine online surveys with interviews and in-board observations, followed by action on selected, concrete recommendations. Evaluation should be a consistent part of the board’s learning culture, enabling ongoing refinement and development. Some boards conduct brief annual “pulse checks,” while others choose a comprehensive external review every three years. The right format depends on context and needs. We believe in bespoke processes – evaluations that deliver tangible value today while setting direction for tomorrow.

How Board Evaluations Can Enable Value Creation
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How is board remuneration determined?

What is a benchmark – and how do we ensure a constructive dialogue about the board’s contribution, time commitment, task complexity, and ability to attract the right competencies?

The Board Complexity Index (BCI) is our digital platform that allows foundations, AMBA-registered companies, and organisations to:
• Benchmark board fees, governance structure, and executive compensation
• Input core data on board composition, roles, and remuneration
• Access a model-driven remuneration level based on real-world data and eight complexity parameters

With visual dashboards and comparisons against similar organisations, boards gain a fact-based overview that increases transparency, strengthens governance, and enables a structured dialogue on remuneration.

BCI is continuously enhanced with new data, model optimisation, and dynamic AI-driven modelling – ensuring you always have access to the most up-to-date insights.

The CHRO/CPO Path to the Board
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Why Odgers?

• Global network with local expertise
We support boards in creating value through recruitment, evaluation, advisory services, and development – underpinned by data and global best practice.

• More than 110 board evaluations completed
Delivered with a consistent methodology across listed companies, family-owned businesses, foundations, and AMBA-owned companies (including analysis, interviews, workshops, observation, and follow-up).

• Proven experience
Demonstrated expertise in governance frameworks and in developing board effectiveness and dynamics.

Read more about Odgers
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