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World class board development delivered to you

Your partner in board excellence

Whether you are looking for training for you or your team, or an expert perspective on your business and its board, our highly experienced, real-world directors and leaders will instil best practice foundations and guide you through the challenges you face today, to better prepare for the future.

With over a century of experience partnering with international organisations, the IoD delivers contextualised programmes globally to suit the strategic and cultural requirements of boards of all sizes and sectors, providing board solutions and professional development to thousands of global directors.

What we offer

Professional Development courses

We can deliver any of our courses to match the specific requirements of you and your team. This includes our internationally recognised Chartered Director Programme. Experience in-house training by highly experienced real-world directors.

Executive coaching

Bespoke guidance and advice based on your own agenda. Whether one-to-one or in groups, our specialist C-suite coaches will help you develop your leadership skills and inspire your long-term career goals.

Consultancy

Whether it’s facilitating a strategic review or navigating complex board discussions, our expert consultants can help. With a wealth of experience to hand, we can help spearhead organisational change and develop rigorous forward thinking plans.

Our experts can help with all kinds of leadership challenges including but not limited to:

  • Corporate governance
  • Formulating strategy
  • Financial reporting
  • Technological innovation
  • Sustainability agenda
  • Inclusion and diversity
  • Board ethics
  • Board composition
  • Crisis management

Our approach

We work with you to create programmes that are relevant, measurable and flexible, using the ADDIE methodology to ensure that you get the best return on your investment.

Analyse: We outline challenges facing your business with a 360° competency assessment to identify knowledge and skill gaps and define objectives for success.

Design: Together we will determine the optimum structure and format of the programme, based on real world outcomes for you and your business.

Develop: We will construct a learning support plan, with tailored content, language and terminology relevant and applicable to your sector.

Implement: All sessions and activities encourage participants to think strategically and drive improvements at an individual, board and organisational level.

Evaluate: We support you with regular reviews at every stage of the programme to ensure that your performance improvement is tangible, observable and measurable.

Our comprehensive framework for director excellence

The IoD Director Competency Framework defines the knowledge, skills and mindset required for directors as a professional group – regardless of sector, industry, role or location – and explores 16 core competencies under these three dimensions.

Director Competency Framework

Here to help

Please get in touch if you have any questions about our business courses. Our contact hours are 9am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday. If you would like someone from our team to contact you, please email us at [email protected] and we will get in touch within 24 hours on weekdays.

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