Grow your governance with the Board Excellence Assessment
What Is the Board Excellence Assessment?
The Board Excellence Assessment (BEA) helps boards understand their strengths, surface what's getting in the way, and commit to specific action steps the board can rally around. Each board member rates and reflects on their board's effectiveness across the seven disciplines of governance excellence from the GEM, and the BEA produces a 30+ page report that focuses your board's discussion on what matters most.
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Discussion-Focused
Most assessments hand you a pile of numbers and you scan the summary to find any red flags, which often just confirms the story you already suspected. The BEA does the opposite. It leads you to the comments, the differences in perspective, and the implications. The pieces that need your attention the most are often hidden underneath the numbers. We help you dig effectively—together.
Built for Your Context
Corporate boards aren't church boards aren't nonprofit boards. The BEA's questions adapt to all three, and you can customize the terminology to match how your board actually talks. "CEO" or "ED," "board" or "council," "elected" or "appointed"; the language here matters. It feels like it was written for your board, because in a sense, it was.
Easy for Everyone
Total admin time runs under 30 minutes from setup to report. Board members get a link in their inbox, complete the survey in about 15 minutes from any device, and never have to create an account or learn anything new. No technical setup, no training session, no learning curve. We make the technical stuff easy and fast so you can focus on the governance work itself.
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Have an OrgHealth Consultant Facilitate Your Debrief
Boards can run the debrief themselves. But an experienced facilitator catches the patterns and dynamics a board might miss in its own report, and keeps the conversation moving when it would otherwise get stuck or stray from the most important findings. Your board walks away with clear, shared commitments.
- Sessions can be in-person or remote, standalone or built into a longer working session that tackles specific governance topics alongside the report.
- The consultant typically connects with the board chair first to understand the board's goals and dynamics.
- Follow-up coaching or full-board sessions are available depending on what surfaces.
Our implementation companion for The Imperfect Board Member
The BEA's framework is the Governance Excellence Model (GEM), developed by OrgHealth and first introduced in Jim Brown's The Imperfect Board Member, the governance best-seller that's been guiding boards for over twenty years.
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