Center for Board Excellence

The Center for Board Excellence (CBE) is the trusted corporate governance partner for public and private companies globally. Find out why companies large and small are improving governance and reducing costs using CBE for the following:

Board Assessments
Board Peer Assesssments
CEO Evaluations
Directors' & Officers' Questionnaires
Compliance Questionnaires

We streamline laborious, inefficient, costly, paper-based processes so that directors and governance professionals can focus on what they do best: provide strategic advisement and guidance on matters that impact an organization’s performance.

"Your combined online questionnaire and interview process produced the best board evaluation report that I have seen in my over 20 years as a public company director" - Fortune 500 company director

CBE EnGauge™ Platform

The CBE EnGauge™ platform serves the board chair, CEO, general counsel, and corporate secretary in delivering board, peer, and CEO evaluations. EnGauge ™ is also the industry's leading solution for streamlining and simplifying D&O Questionnaires, Investor Questionnaires, and other compliance related questionnaires and documentation. Find out why more and more Fortune 2000 companies are choosing CBE as their governance solution partner.

Every Governance Challenge has a Solution

Our popular Board Evaluations are just the starting point for a library of services that utilize the EnGauge™ platform and optimize every aspect of measuring leadership performance and participation. From Peer Evaluations to Management Board Evaluations and Director Self-Evaluations, we provide design flexibility, uniquely insightful reporting, and actionable metrics. The EnGauge™ platform also helps boards measure company performance through CEO Evaluations, Management Team Evaluations, and our unique board focused employee engagement assessment.

Your board and organization will also benefit from our diverse client experience. Call or email us to begin a no obligation discussion. Find out why more and more companies, Fortune 100 to micro cap, private family run business, not-for-profit, and higher education are choosing CBE for their board related evaluation needs.

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NASDAQ Corporate Solutions and Center for Board Excellence today announce a new partnership for corporate governance excellence.

June 28, 2017

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, a business of Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ), announced today a new partnership with The Center for Board Excellence (CBE), a provider of board assessments and compliance questionnaires. In the first phase of the partnership, Nasdaq Corporate Solutions will facilitate introductions for users of Directors Desk and Boardvantage – Nasdaq’s board portal and meeting management solutions – to CBE’s cloud-based corporate governance solutions including: board and committee assessments; director peer assessments; CEO and management evaluations; and directors’ & officers’ questionnaires. Later this year, the parties plan to offer an integrated workflow between Nasdaq’s board portal solutions and CBE’s EnGaugeTM platform, making it even easier for users to elect to benefit from these CBE offerings.

COMMONSENSE PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

July 22, 2016

I applaud Larry Fink, Jamie Dimon, Warren Buffett and colleagues for stepping forward and advancing this important dialogue. The group's corporations represent more than $15 trillion in managed or controlled assests. Board effectiveness is a key element of a company's governance and overall success. Measuring effectiveness through a well designed board evaluation is an important step that high performing boards engage as an annual part of their agenda.

Why Board Refreshment is Critical to Success

March 7, 2016

As boards today face issues related to growth, globalization, and technological change, board refreshment is becoming more and more critical. The model of board-member-for-life — the proverbial pale, male, and stale — is likely to miss the boat as far as possessing the skill set and familiarity needed to address emerging crises and changes in investor and customer profiles. In fact, any board that defaults to the status quo and does not plan for the future is not holding its own; it is actually falling behind.

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