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
- Chairman, Non-Executive Director & CEO Search / Appointments – We assist our clients with their key Board appointments. We review and assess 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 targeted search process focused on delivering outcomes.
- Board Performance Reviews – Conducting annual / biennial Board Performance Reviews to assess the performance of a Board, including reviewing the performance of individual Directors and the Chairman. We identify and address 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.
- Board Succession Planning – We provide practical and commercial recommendations and guidance to our clients on their Board composition.
- CEO Succession & Assessment – The appointment of a CEO is the most important matter a Board presides over. We help our client Boards to proactively engage in an ongoing program of CEO succession planning.
- Chairman, Non-Executive Director & CEO Coaching – We coach and mentor Chairs and Directors on an individual basis on matters of practical corporate governance, 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.
- Independent advice to Boards involved in significant transactions – Advising Boards in relation to high level people, practical governance, and strategy issues arising from acquisition or divestment.
About us
We are Connected & Trusted
Operating in the boardrooms of Australia's leading companies, and with clients across the Asia Pacific region, we are trusted advisors on Board & CEO Succession Planning, Search and Appointments; Board Composition and Structure; and, Board & Company Performance. Our key clients include many of Australasia’s most prominent Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and Chief Executive Officers.
We are Experienced & Specialised
We possess extensive working knowledge of corporate governance and the Australian corporate landscape, and 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).
