Benchmarking board performance

Discover the power of benchmarking to evaluate your board's strengths and weaknesses, driving meaningful change. Learn why benchmarking is crucial for interpreting board survey results and how it enhances understanding. Explore key areas of board effectiveness supported by research and how a benchmarked survey can facilitate improvement. Focus on critical aspects to enhance governance, increase impact, add value, and create a lasting legacy.

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FOUNDER AND CEO - Board Benchmarking

Nicholas Barnett

Nicholas Barnett is Executive Chairman of Board Benchmarking and Insync, a former Chairman of Ansvar Insurance and First Samuel, a former director of Mission Australia and a former partner of KPMG.

Nicholas has conducted in excess of 200 and overseen another 300 board reviews ranging from NAB to Red Hill Football Netball Club.

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Richard Westlake Governance

Richard Westlake

Richard leads one of New Zealand’s most respected governance advisory businesses, Westlake Governance Ltd, with the purpose of Building Boards into Leading Teams. Following a career that has spanned flying for the Royal Air Force, merchant banking in New Zealand and Australia, and several senior leadership roles, he also has more than 25 years’ practical experience as a board chair and director. As both chair and adviser, he has conducted more than 150 board evaluations over the last 15 years, for a broad range of companies and other organisations

Cofounder and CEO - Boardpro

Brett Herkt

Brett Herkt is our CEO and Cofounder here at BoardPro. Brett is a serial entrepreneur, having built several high growth businesses over the last 20 years.

Brett has created $10M exit value in an ICT business, persevered through to a modest exit on his first startup and carried the lessons into BoardPro's burgeoning success. Brett brings tenacity, a strategic mindset, strong generalist business skills and enduring curiosity to the table.

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