Board Advisory
Ashurst's Board Advisory Practice is focused on enhancing Board and Company performance. We help our clients – the Chairs, Boards and Chief Executive Officers of Australasia's largest public and private companies – solve their most complex high-level governance, leadership and people issues.
What we do
Our Service Offering and Key Areas of Expertise include:
Board & CEO Succession Planning
- Chairman, Non-Executive Director & CEO Search / Appointments – We assist our clients with their key Board appointments. We focus on the skills our client Boards' possess, relative to the skills they need (against an evolving Board Skills Matrix). We then align this to the Company, its strategy, operating market(s), and Company and Board culture, to develop a tailored brief and an integrated search process focussed on delivering outcomes.
- Board Succession Planning – We provide practical and commercial recommendations and guidance on Board Composition and ongoing Succession Planning. We aim to ensure our client Boards possess the skills to enhance their effectiveness, and in turn drive company performance; while concurrently discharging their obligations to shareholders and stakeholders.
- CEO Succession & Assessment – The appointment of a CEO is the most important matter a Board presides over. We assist our clients to proactively engage in an ongoing program of CEO succession planning. This includes the identification, assessment and development of internal talent; together with ongoing identification and monitoring of external CEO prospects.
Board & Company Performance
- Board Performance Reviews – Conducting annual / biennial Board Performance Reviews to assess the performance of a Board as a whole, and to review the performance of individual Directors, including the Chairman. We focus on identifying and addressing matters of key importance to the Company and Board over the short, medium and long term. Among other things, we develop an action plan for the Chairman and Board to implement.
- Chairman, Non-Executive Director & CEO Coaching – We coach and mentor Chairs and Directors on an individual basis on matters of practical corporate governance (how they might respond to certain high level / high impact situations, for example) and in relation to company strategy.
- Governance Consulting to Chairman / Board – We consult in relation to how a Board ought to respond to the most important and complex matters it confronts; including those outlined above, key Company risks (and how they might be mitigated) and opportunities, broad strategic and governance agendas, and communication and engagement strategies with "the market" (shareholders, stakeholders, proxy advisors etc.).
About us
We are Connected & Trusted
We operate in the boardrooms of Australia's leading companies, with clients across the Asia Pacific region. Our key clients include many of Australasia’s most prominent Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and CEOs.
We are Experienced & Specialised
With extensive working knowledge of corporate governance and the Australian corporate landscape, we spend our days in the boardrooms of Australia's leading companies. We know what good looks like. And we are passionate about the work we do.
Our detailed understanding of our clients and their operating environment(s) is used to develop and apply rigorous and comprehensive processes to ensure our insights and recommendations are relevant and focused. We understand the rapid evolution of corporate governance; and, the resultant pressure, increased complexity and demands placed upon public company Boards and their Directors. We work with our clients to address these challenges proactively and pragmatically.
We are Client Focused
Taking our instructions directly from the Chair / Board, we help our clients navigate their most significant and complex high-level governance challenges. We focus on assisting our clients to enhance their organisational and Board performance, to drive a sustainable future for the benefit of all stakeholders.
We are Dynamic
We assist our client Boards to proactively transition their governance practices, to best position the companies they govern on a journey of sustainable growth. We are alive to the issues of today, and maintain a clear focus on identifying those of tomorrow. We have a genuine commitment to enhancing corporate Australia's business and governance culture, for the benefit of our client companies, their shareholders and stakeholders.
Our clients
Our team has played a key role in more than 400 Board and CEO search and related consulting assignments, the majority for leading ASX listed companies. We act for leading listed and private companies across Australasia and the Asia Pacific region. We work across industry.
The services provided by the Board Advisory Practice do not constitute legal services or legal advice, and are not provided by Australian legal practitioners acting in that capacity. The laws and regulations which govern the provision of legal services in the relevant jurisdiction do not apply to the provision of non-legal services.
Ashurst Boardroom Advisory Pty Ltd (ABN 41 635 686 805).
