‘Informative’, ‘Insightful’ and ‘Supportive’. That’s how guests described the recent Take on Board online event with Louise Broekman
In this interactive and engaging session, we rounded out the advisory board series with our guest speaker, Louise Broekman. Louise also gave us a sneak preview of the Advisory Board Sector State of the Market Report 2025–2027 which is being officially launched at the Megatrends Summit in Brisbane on the 30 May, 2025.
Advisory board mini series playlist
- Episode 303: Louise Broekman outlines the history and importance of advisory boards
- Episode 304: Sandra Gamble on advisory boards in the energy and sustainability sectors
- Episode 305: Cynthia Payne on advisory boards in the health and aged care sectors
- Episode 306: Heather Disher on business sector advisory boards
- Episode 307: Louise Broekman’s rundown of the Advisory Board Centre’s upcoming State of the Market Report 2025-2027
- Episode 308: Advisory board mini series – Louise Broekman answers questions on the advisory board market
- Episode 309: Advisory board mini series – Mary Goodwin on her experiences with the Advisory Board Centre’s Certified Chair Course
Key points, takeaways and discussion points from Louise from the event:
- The Advisory Board Sector State of the Market Report 2025 – 2027 will be officially launched at the Megatrends Summit in Brisbane on 30 May.
- There is a big shift in the blend of art and science of best practice of advisory boards to maximise the impact of good advisory board practice
- The Advisory Board Centre is a leader in research, best practice frameworks, ethical engagement standards, executive education and organisational support to advance excellence in the advisory sector
- Three key megatrends in advisory boards: Integrated governance systems, informed leadership, balancing short-termism
- Advisory boards are being normalised as part of the ‘governance ecosystem’ and a quality way of leaders to be informed
- Advisory board models vary from informal to formal, and have a variety of naming conventions eg:, working group
- 5 clear areas of specialisation of advisory boards: stewardship, commercial, change, specialists, stakeholders. Advisory boards can help to deal with ‘known unknowns ie., AI – advisory boards are adding value
- The advisory board chair is a key role – it’s important they are a specialist
- Increase in advisory boards in the corporate environment (now 46%), with research reporting there are now 9.8m advisory professionals globally and 36% of people hold both governance and advisory board seats
- The heart of the Advisory Board Centre’s research is to challenge ‘what we know, not defend it’
What did the attendees like about this event?
“Excellent speaker. Louise’s passion and knowledge, experience and concise answers and presentation were brilliant, thank you and her!”
“I knew so many people! And made new connections”.
“Sharing of insights into advisory boards/panels that stimulated different thinking”.
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