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Board Effectiveness Review

Is your board as prepared as it needs to be, not just for today but for the next decade? More and more organizations are realizing that the only way to deal with the increasing pace of change is to have an effective board of directors that is flexible, creative, and open-minded to match.

This is a shift: Rather than focusing on avoiding risk, today’s best boards must see uncertainty as an inevitable part of both innovation and governance. However, an understanding that the ability to manage risk well can present its own opportunities and is another key marker of board effectiveness.

Egon Zehnder’s Approach To Board Effectiveness

With our Executive Assessment and Development Practice, we have created bespoke solutions to help give some of the most prestigious and complex organizations in the world a more effective board of directors. Our goal is to determine whether boards have the skill sets needed for the ever-evolving corporate landscape and, if they don’t, help them get there.

Sometimes that means working with existing candidates; sometimes it means recruiting new ones. Our work also applies to CEO succession planning, one of the most critical responsibilities a board has. Whatever the situation, we work with you to develop an outcome where your enterprise has the effective board it needs. We have been working closely with companies to improve board effectiveness for decades, helping them find the very best leaders for their most critical needs.


Board Effectiveness Review Consultants

Ashley Summerfield

Ashley Summerfield

London

Global Lead

Ashley Summerfield leads Egon Zehnder’s global CEO and Board Consulting Practice. He is a trusted advisor to scores of prestigious clients around the… Read more

Jason Jia

Jason Jia

Shanghai

Jason Jia, based in Shanghai, is a Partner of Egon Zehnder and currently leads Egon Zehnder’s Consumer Practice in Greater China. Read more

Elaine Yew

Elaine Yew

Singapore

Elaine Yew is a Senior Partner in Egon Zehnder and the Global Co-Head for our Family Business and Family Office Practice. Read more

Kenichi Iwata

Kenichi Iwata

Tokyo Office Leader

Kenichi Iwata leads Egon Zehnder’s Tokyo Office while working as a member of the Firm’s Private Capital, Service and Board Consulting practices. Read more

Nobuko Tabata

Nobuko Tabata

Tokyo

Nobuko Tabata, based in Tokyo, has deep expertise advising family businesses and improving diversity and gender parity in management… Read more

Junichi Iwagami

Junichi Iwagami

Tokyo

Junichi Iwagami, based in Tokyo, is the leader of our Financial Services practices. He is also active in Industrial practices as well as board… Read more

Rahul Rana

Rahul Rana

New Delhi

Rahul Rana, based in New Delhi, leads Egon Zehnder’s Financial Services Practice in India and is a core member of the Fintech practice in Asia. Read more

Sonny Iqbal

Sonny Iqbal

New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai

Sonny Iqbal helped found Egon Zehnder’s offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai. He advises family businesses on succession, founder transition… Read more

Imran Saleem

Imran Saleem

Middle East

Imran Saleem has been in the region since 2006 and with Egon Zehnder in the Middle East for over 16 years. Read more

Jacob Rasin

Jacob Rasin

Stockholm Office Leader, Malmö Office Leader

Jacob Rasin, based in Stockholm, is a trusted advisor to clients when it comes to appointing leaders into roles such as CEO, CFO, board members… Read more

Carl Edenhammar

Carl Edenhammar

Stockholm, Malmö

Carl Edenhammar, based in Malmö and Stockholm, advises industrial, software, digital, consumer and financial services clients on their most… Read more

Nina Peters

Nina Peters

Stockholm, Malmö

Nina Peters, based in Malmö and Stockholm, is active broadly across both CEO and functional roles across Egon Zehnder’s Consumer Goods… Read more

Peter Berntsson

Peter Berntsson

Stockholm

Peter is a Partner with Egon Zehnder and leads the Swedish practice with offices in Stockholm and Malmö. Peter advise clients in a wide array of… Read more

Johan Saarm

Johan Saarm

Stockholm, Malmö

Johan Saarm is active in Egon Zehnder’s Executive Assessment and Development Practice. Based in Stockholm… Read more

Andreas Gavrielides

Andreas Gavrielides

Athens Office Leader

Andreas Gavrielides founded Egon Zehnder’s Athens office and helped to establish the firm’s presence in Turkey and Central Europe. Read more

Lena Triantogiannis

Lena Triantogiannis

Athens, New York

Lena Triantogiannis co-leads Egon Zehnder’s partnership with Mobius Executive Leadership as well as its global Accelerated Integration practice. Read more


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Egon Zehnder Names Co-Leader of U.S. CEO and Board Practice

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President Lincoln appointed three of his rivals to his cabinet. To outsiders, this seemed like a dangerous move, and that’s a profile in courageous… Read more

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Executives discuss barriers like visibility and access to joining and driving inclusion in boards and strategies to overcome them. Read more

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