Board Excellence is led by Kieran Moynihan, an experienced Chairman and leading thinker in the area of board dynamics and performance. Kieran has over 18 years experience serving on boards as a CEO executive director, non-executive director and Chairman. He has written and presented extensively on the unique challenges of achieving a high-performance board of directors. Kieran is currently the chairman of a number of internationally-focused companies across a number of industry sectors. Board Excellence supports boards in companies, organisations and non-profits in Ireland, UK & Europe.
In working with board teams across the UK & Ireland, one of the interesting characteristics I have noticed in high-performing board teams is that they develop a strong “gut feeling & intuition” which not only optimizes their decision-making but helps identify serious issues & risks earlier. This “gut feeling & intuition” not only is apparent […]
A colleague at Board Excellence recently published a thought-provoking article which proposed a hypothetical scenario in which the board meeting be streamed live to shareholders. Following the meeting, each shareholder would be asked to assess the board’s collective performance and that of each board member under a number of categories critical to performance and effectiveness, […]
The terms board effectiveness and board performance tended in the past to be associated with, and thought about solely in the context of the annual board evaluation – this is changing, but maybe not as quickly as it should as many boards continue to see the evaluation as a box-ticking exercise. Yes, board evaluation is […]