About Board Benchmarking
Unlocking success: The power of effective board governance.
About Us
Our Vision is to set the gold standard for board and governance surveys worldwide.
Our Purpose is to enhance the performance and effectiveness of thousands of boards across the globe.
We plan to achieve this by:
- Growing accessibility: Making the most affordable, validated, world-class board and governance surveys available globally – for organisations of all sizes and industries.
- Expanding expert advice: Support and grow a global network of Board Advisory Partners to provide expert advice to survey clients.
- Building a governance community: Support and grow a global network of Governance Community Partners to help them lift the governance of their stakeholders.
We are driven by our conviction that Better Boards means Better Organisations.
Our Team
Our team is dedicated to matching our gold standard surveys with a client experience and expert advice that also meets that same gold standard. We have used our 20 years of experience in helping more than 500 boards to design an survey and review process that uses just the right blend of technology, project management and expert advice. All this is supported by to large and diverse team of psychologists, researchers, consultants, analysts, and developers at Insync, our parent organisation.
Our Disruptive Approach
Our 20-year Heritage
Board Benchmarking is a specialist governance brand of Insync that was established in 2005. We drew upon the deep survey, benchmarking and technology expertise of Insync and the deep governance expertise and experience of our founder, Nicholas Barnett and others, including KPMG Australia, to design our board surveys.
Over the past two decades, we have helped over 500 boards measure and improve their effectiveness. Client feedback underscores the accuracy and efficiency of our surveys, often describing them as “surprisingly accurate” and adept at “quickly pinpointing hot spots”. Our many testimonials also testify to the positive change we have helped deliver.
In early 2020, we enhanced our benchmarked Board Effectiveness Survey through a rigorous validation process with the assistance of Deakin University. This process established psychometrically valid dimensions of board functioning and performance, refined further through expert practitioner input and a comprehensive review of contemporary board literature. Following that validation process, our board surveys and benchmarked reports were upgraded, ensuring survey and report reliability and precision.
Beyond board surveys, we have supported numerous directors, CEOs, and leadership team members to better understand and improve their performance and effectiveness. Senior leaders enhance their effectiveness and catalyse continuous improvements in their board, CEO, and executive team performance and organisational function.
We have also developed other leading-edge surveys such as a Board and Director Skills Matrix Survey and a Strategy Effectiveness Survey. These surveys and the related reports help boards and executive teams drive organisational change and improvement.
Our Values
We embrace, reinforce and live our values to succeed, overcome challenges, lead change and evolve. Our values have shaped our organisation’s culture and DNA and make us distinctively Board Benchmarking. They have been so deeply embedded in the way we do things that they have become our way of life.
Our Board Benchmarking team is committed to living and breathing our values every day.
Our Values
Our Board Benchmarking team is committed to living and breathing Insync’s values every day.
Forward-thinking
We always look ahead and think creatively with purpose and bravery.
Partnership
We use a collaborative mindset to underpin all we do internally and with our clients and partners.
Accountability
We meet our commitments to our clients, partners, and each other.
Truth
We discover and speak the truth to our clients, partners and each other with respect and integrity.
High Performance
We set high expectations for ourselves and others and are passionate about achieving success.
