“I believe in the product immensely. There is no question that boards need a third party, legitimate, independent benchmark…”

Terry Ashwill, former CFO, True North (NYSE), Ryder

Applying new thinking to the board evaluation process

The Board Institute provides directors with independent, world-class evaluation tools to assess, enhance, educate and benchmark the effectiveness of your boards, committees and directors.

Created in collaboration with market experts in evaluation, survey research and board governance, our scientific, accredited and comprehensive solutions will provide you with a clearer understanding of how your board is performing, will enhance and streamline your entire evaluation process, and ultimately lead to improved corporate governance and better financial results.

Our Products

The Board Index

Moving Beyond Compliance & Checkboxes

The goal of The Board Index is to help your board be the best it can be by assessing and enhancing its effectiveness. The Board Index helps directors and officers of public and private companies assess and enhance the overall effectiveness of your board by focusing on the structure and composition, the role of the directors and the leadership of the board.

The Audit Committee Index

Lead a More Potent Audit Committee

The Audit Committee Index helps you determine how to make your Audit Committee more effective by revealing strengths and weaknesses in the Audit Committee’s structure, policies and practices.

 

The Compensation Committee Index

Compensation Comes Under Attack

The Compensation Committee Index helps you determine how to make your Compensation Committee more effective and demonstrate best practice to your constituencies and the markets.

 

 

The Governance Committee Index

Demonstrate Good Practice to the Markets

The Governance Committee Index helps you determine how to make your Governance and Nominating Committee more effective and demonstrate good practice to your constituencies and the markets

TBI/Protiviti Board Risk Oversight Meter

Improve Board Risk Oversight

The TBI Protiviti® Board Risk Oversight Meter™ allows your board of directors to assess, improve and benchmark the effectiveness of your risk oversight processes. More importantly, it allows directors to be confident they are effectively overseeing risk.

The Director Index

Managing the Most Sensitive of Board Accountabilities

The Director Index is designed to help directors become more effective and optimize their performance objectively, safely and securely.

The Fiduciary Board Index Module

Moving Beyond Compliance & Checkboxes

The Fiduciary Board Index module allows boards of directors to assess the strengths of their investment policies and highlight areas for improvement.

The Norwegian Board Index

The Keys to Risk Management are Knowledge, Transparency and Accountability

The goal of The Norwegian Board Index is to help your board be the best it can be by assessing and enhancing its effectiveness.

“The Audit Committee Index report identified an area of disparity and created and enabled discussion by the board members in an area that would have otherwise not been raised. We intend to do this again next year..”

Vern LaForti, CFO, Overland Storage (NASDAQ/Technology)

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The Board Book

Boards of directors can spell the difference between success and failure. Great boards mean great companies. In The Board Book, author and Board Institute founder, Susan Shultz combines over 30 years of experience and expertise in corporate governance to help you learn how to avoid the 10 most common mistakes and create a strategic force in your company’s success.

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