Membership open · First year free The Global Directors Council

Meaningful connections,valuable insights

A global community for directors, built on four pillars. We connect you through events, introduce you to the right peers, sharpen your thinking with content, and show how boards are really performing.
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Events

Benchmarks from the AICD community

The value of the Council is the people in it. We convene directors in small, candid settings where the conversation is real and the peers are genuinely global, across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa.

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Director roundtables

Small-group, closed-door discussion on the questions that don't have easy answers, held under the Chatham House rule.
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Governance briefings

Live sessions on what is changing now, from regulation and risk to AI oversight and succession.
Introductions

Member gatherings

In person and online, an easy way to meet directors beyond your own board and market.
Chatham House rule Curated, small-group settings In person and virtual Australia · NZ · UK · Middle East · US/Canada · South Africa
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Content

The Resolution

Sharp, practical writing and podcasts on the craft of governance, published for directors, not consultants. A curated collection of insight from BoardOutlook and leading directors.

Board performance Chair leadership Board culture Risk management Talent and remuneration Strategy CEO 360
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Data

Quarterly benchmark insights

Nearly a decade of data, from hundreds of processes each year across the world's best boards. What it reveals about how boards are really performing, refreshed every quarter, benchmarked and anonymised. Evidence for the conversations that matter, not opinion.

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20%
of directors say their chair gives them great feedback. The rest are, in effect, flying blind.
Source: The Resolution, "The Feedback Gap"
80%
of directors are not getting the feedback they need to lead at their best, a gap boards can close.
Source: The Resolution, "The Feedback Gap"
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a year, fresh benchmarks land with the community, so you can see how you are moving, not just where you sit.
Quarterly market insights
Every figure is aggregated and anonymised, no board is ever identifiable
Introductions

Facilitated introductions to your global peers

Some conversations are best had one to one. Tell us what you are wrestling with. It might be a governance question, a first-time situation, or a decision you have not faced before. We will make a warm, facilitated introduction to a director at a peer organisation who has been there. Real people, personally matched, anywhere in the world.

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Tell us what you need

Share the question or situation on your mind. The more specific, the better the match we can make.
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We find the right peer

We draw on the whole community to identify a director at a peer organisation who has faced the same thing.
Introductions

A warm introduction

We introduce you personally, with context on both sides, so the first conversation is useful from the start.
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Across the whole community

Peers span Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa.
Personally matched Confidential by default Peer organisations, worldwide
Membership

Two ways in, both start free

If you, or any board you sit on, uses BoardOutlook, membership is free forever. If not, your first year is on us, then it is just $500 a year.

  • Events - roundtables, briefings and member gatherings.
  • The Resolution - the full library of writing and podcasts, as it is published.
  • Quarterly data insights - benchmarked, anonymised, delivered every quarter.
  • Facilitated introductions - warm, one-to-one introductions to directors at peer organisations worldwide.
  • Truly global peers - directors across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Middle East, the US and Canada, and South Africa.
Council membership
Global Directors Council
First year free
Then $500 a year. Cancel any time.
Free forever for BoardOutlook clients, and any board you sit on
  • All events, in person and virtual
  • The Resolution, in full
  • Quarterly benchmark insights
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Who it's for

Built for the people who carry the accountability

The Council is for directors who take the craft seriously, wherever they sit.

Chairs

Peers who understand the singular accountability of the role, and the conversations you cannot have inside your own board.

The seat you lead from

Non-executive directors

Sharper thinking, honest benchmarks and a network beyond your current boards, to contribute at your best.

On every board you serve

Committee chairs

The same clarity for Audit, Risk and Remuneration, with peers holding the same remit around the world.

Audit · Risk · Remuneration

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