Services that Get Results
Whether you just need a little help to regain control of your evaluation process, or you are a brand new corporation, CGA can help you get the results you want.
Board and Director Evaluations
Our board evaluation process includes:
- Meeting with Chair(s) to assess objective of evaluation
- Data gathering/Framing questionnaire
- Confidential interviews with each director and appropriate corporate officers
- Research applicable best practices
- Follow up interviews/calls
- Report focused on value added meeting of objective
In Boardroom/Company Specific Training
Our in-house educational programs provide:
- Custom curriculum focused on your company’s needs
- Opportunity to “deep-dive” into actual company centric issues
- Experienced instructors – graduate level with real time in the boardroom
- Time and cost savings by having our instructor come to your facility
- Courses of two hours to two days
- For directors, staff who work with the board, or high potential employees
Board Operations Consulting
Areas of Potential Optimization:
- Board organization and size
- Director skills matrix
- Director source matrix
- Diversity analysis
- Director succession planning
- Board and Committee Plan of Work
- Meeting materials
- Committee Charters
- Operations Audit – from charter to work plan to agenda to minutes
Corporate Governance Guidelines Development & Review
Our corporate governance audit:
- Analyzes the completeness of your guidelines
- Compares your guidelines to
- Standards from multiple published surveys
- Voting guidelines from proxy advisors
- A detailed report
- valuable suggestions for possible changes to better align with the practices of similarly situated firms
- identifying areas that might attract negative attention from proxy advisors
- courses of action to mitigate adverse voting recommendations.
Specific Board Projects Assistance
Specific board projects we have undertaken in the past include:
- CEO succession planning/process development
- Director succession planning
- Maximizing the value derived from the board’s role in strategy
- The board’s role in oversight of culture
- Contested elections for directors or proposals
- Supporting the board during government/regulatory investigations
- Using the proxy to better tell your story
- Expert witness testimony
