Preparing for Sale: How to Improve EBITDA and Attract Buyers
When an owner decides to sell, the instinct is to focus on the headline number: grow revenue, cut costs, lift profit. That matters, but it is only half the picture. Buyers rarely pay for this year’s profit alone. They pay a multiple of earnings, and …
8 Emerging Trends in Board-Level Recruitment for 2026
The way boards find and appoint non-executive directors has changed more in the last few years than in a long time before that. Some of the change is driven by regulation, such as the 2024 UK Corporate Governance Code and the continuing reach of the …
The NED Recruitment Process: A Step-by-Step Guide for Chairs
The Short Answer Recruiting a non-executive director is one of the chair’s most important responsibilities. The UK Corporate Governance Code gives the chair responsibility for leading the board and its effectiveness, and in most companies the chair also leads the nomination committee that runs board …
The Next Wave of NED Roles in the Social Impact Space
For a long time, board experience meant corporate board experience. That is changing. A growing number of organisations whose purpose is social as well as commercial are looking for the governance discipline and oversight that experienced non-executives bring, and many directors want at least part …
How to Avoid Groupthink When Selecting NEDs
The whole point of a non-executive director is independent challenge: a view from outside the executive team that tests assumptions and improves decisions. Yet many boards undermine that purpose at the very first step. They appoint NEDs who think, look and network like the directors …
How to Showcase Your Board Potential in Interviews
Plenty of accomplished executives struggle in board interviews, and it is rarely because they lack ability. It is usually because they showcase the wrong thing. They present the qualities that made them successful executives (drive, delivery, decisiveness) without realising that a board is looking for …
How to Use Your Industry Network to Get on a Board
If you want a non-executive role, your existing industry network is probably the strongest asset you have. Board recruitment, more than most kinds of hiring, runs on trust. A chair looking for a new director wants someone whose judgement can be relied on, and judgement …
How to Build a Board That Attracts Investors
When an investor looks at a company, they are weighing risk as much as opportunity. The board is one of the clearest pieces of evidence they have. It tells them whether someone other than the people spending the money will oversee how it is spent, …
Non-Executive Director Interview Questions and How to Prepare
Most candidates for a non-executive role know roughly which questions are coming. Why do you want to be a NED? What would you bring to this board? How would you handle a disagreement with the chief executive? The difference between candidates who are shortlisted and …
Who is the Most Powerful in the Boardroom: CEO or Chairman?
Ask a room of directors who holds the most power in the boardroom and you will get two answers. Some will say the chief executive, because the CEO runs the company, controls the budget and leads the people who do the work. Others will say …
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