Pippa Begg
CEO, Board Intelligence
Our story
It all began back in 2008. We were sitting in the back of a boardroom, observing a FTSE 250 board meeting as consultants. This business had high-calibre directors and some big strategic challenges: it was set to be a great meeting.
And yet it wasn’t.
For hours, the board members pored over stacks of paperwork filled with backward-looking data. They talked about a lot of things, but didn’t get stuck into anything that really mattered.
That’s when the penny dropped. No matter how talented the people around the boardroom table might be, their effectiveness is compromised when they’re equipped with the wrong tools.
Every day, boards and leadership teams make decisions with far-reaching consequences. But all too often crowded agendas, poor information, and inefficient processes make it hard for them to do this well — wasting time, money, and opportunity.
That’s why, since 2008, we’ve focused on decoding the science of board effectiveness, developing a growing range of tools and advisory services that help boards fulfil their potential.
What makes us different ?
Board Intelligence may be the largest provider of board management software and advisory services in the UK and Sweden, but we’ve often gone against the grain.
- Clients first, software second: we were advising boards long before we developed our first software tool, so we truly understand our clients’ needs — and that’s the starting point for everything we do. When we started working with AI, for example, we turned our consultants into prompt engineers to make sure our tools delivered exactly what boards and governance professionals needed them to.
- Female-founded and led: we’re proud to be a female-founded and female-led business, and to work with investors who share our belief in the power of diversity.
- Question driven insight: we’ve never been afraid of asking difficult questions so that we can challenge convention and find new and better ways to solve age-old problems.
Why do we care so much about board effectiveness ?
The state of the world we leave for our children and grandchildren is surely the only thing that really matters?
We believe in the potential of business as a force for good. Better boards build better businesses, and better businesses benefit society.
That’s why, together with our clients, we are building a community of change-oriented leaders driving the conversations that matter in their boardrooms and businesses.