About BoardOutlook
Who we are
BoardOutlook is a platform to drive exceptional organisational performance through more effective boards and leadership teams.
It provides continuous, data-driven intelligence on how your board and leadership team are performing — giving leaders the visibility to understand, shape, and improve effectiveness over time.
Used by Chairs, CEOs, directors, and governance professionals, BoardOutlook supports those responsible for ensuring the right people are in place and operating effectively.
The challenge
Organisations rarely struggle because of their strategy — they struggle when their board and leadership team aren’t set up to deliver.
Yet most leaders lack clear, ongoing visibility into how effective these teams really are. Critical decisions across strategy, risk, performance, and team effectiveness are still made based on instinct, infrequent evaluations, and fragmented advice.
BoardOutlook changes this — providing a continuous, data-driven view of how your board and leadership team are performing, and how they are enabling or limiting organisational performance.
It brings together evaluation, composition, CEO feedback, and ongoing effectiveness into a single platform you return to continuously — not once a year.
The impact
With BoardOutlook, you move from periodic insight to continuous clarity — and from reactive decisions to deliberate action.
You can:
- Act with confidence, not instinct: Make decisions on people, performance, and direction with a clear, evidence-based view
- See issues before they surface: Identify risks in your board and leadership team early, before they impact outcomes
- Align your team to where the organisation is going: Ensure focus, capability, and dynamics match your strategic priorities
- Make high-stakes decisions with less noise: Cut through politics, bias, and partial views with a consistent, objective foundation
- Deliberately shape your board and leadership team over time: Treat composition, development, and succession as an ongoing discipline — not a periodic event
Why BoardOutlook
Traditional governance consultants and board evaluations provide a point-in-time view — reliant on episodic engagement, disconnected from how the organisation is evolving, and often outdated within months.
At the other end, generic AI tools lack the context, structure, and governance-specific insight required to meaningfully assess board and leadership team effectiveness.
BoardOutlook sits between these.
It combines the depth and rigour of expert-led evaluation with the consistency, continuity, and scalability of a platform — providing ongoing, strategy-linked intelligence you can rely on over time.
Meet the team
Steve Pell
CEO, Co-Founder
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Allen Stephens
Co-Founder, Founding engineer
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Sarah Graff
Vice President - Strategic Accounts
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Tania Cabrera
Vice President - UK/EU
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Caitlin O’Farrell
Head of Client Success, APAC
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Louise Pocock
Vice President, Clients
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Laura Byrne
Director - New Zealand
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Josh Sloan
Vice President - Product and Technology
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Paul Beliavskis
Director - Engineering
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