Clarity in complexity. Culture by design. Governance with purpose.
We recognise that every board brings a unique combination of strengths, challenges, and dynamics. That’s why our advisory and coaching solutions are never off-the-shelf — they are bespoke, evidence-informed, and deeply attuned to the human side of governance.
Board Alignment & Uplift
We help boards sharpen focus, align priorities, and turn insights into actions that drive impactful governance and board engagement.
Strategic Objective Setting
Our half-day and full-day Strategic Objective Setting workshops incorporate preparatory questionnaires designed to guide boards in defining and refining their strategic priorities, ensuring alignment across the organisation. With a clear focus on actionable outcomes, our workshops help boards:
- Clarify and Prioritise Key Objectives: Identify and articulate strategic goals that align with the organisation’s mission, vision, and long-term ambitions.
- Foster Alignment and Collaboration: Create consensus among board members and executive leaders, ensuring a unified approach to organisational goals.
- Develop an Action-Oriented Roadmap: Define specific, measurable steps to achieve each objective, providing a framework for ongoing evaluation and accountability.
Action Planning for Performance Review Recommendations
Our half-day and full-day Action Planning workshops provide boards with a structured approach to implementing recommendations from recent performance reviews. Facilitated by experienced governance professionals, these workshops empower boards to:
- Analyze and Prioritise Recommendations: Review performance findings, pinpointing areas of highest impact and feasibility for immediate action.
- Set Measurable Goals and Benchmarks: Define clear objectives for each priority area, establishing timelines, responsibilities, and performance indicators.
- Create a Sustainable Action Plan: Develop a tailored plan to address challenges, leverage strengths, and embed improvements into board practices for lasting change.
These workshops support boards in turning review insights into tangible actions, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and enhanced board effectiveness.
Establishing Advisory Committees in Aged Care
This specialised advisory service supports aged care boards to establish or refine board advisory committees aligned with the Royal Commission’s expectations. We provide expert guidance on structure, role clarity, membership, and integration with board decision-making. Services include:
- Governance Mapping & Gap Analysis: Assess current structures against regulatory requirements and best-practice advisory models.
- Design & Setup of Committees: Define remit, membership, and reporting lines for clinical, consumer, or risk-related committees.
- Capability & Composition Advice: Recommend the right mix of skills, independence, and lived experience for impact.
- Board–Committee Integration Workshops: Facilitate alignment of committee outputs with strategic board decisions.
Culture Reboot
We offer tailored diagnostics and interventions that restore clarity, trust, and effective decision-making.
Assessment & Workshops for Boards and Executive Teams
Strained or broken relations between board members — or between the board and executive — can seriously undermine trust, decision-making, and strategic oversight. We offer stabilising intervention programs during leadership transitions, stakeholder backlash, or reputational threats—helping boards pause, reflect, and respond wisely to recognise, address, and repair any dysfunctional patterns, with a focus on restoring psychological safety, cultural alignment, and effective collaboration.
Combining structured assessment and tailored workshop facilitation, this offering provides boards with a safe, expertly guided opportunity to re-establish trust, reset behavioural norms, and embed long-term improvements in board dynamics and culture.
- Conflict & Culture Diagnostics: Identify root causes of interpersonal tension, cultural drift, or role confusion using observation at live meetings, confidential interviews and/or targeted diagnostics. Debriefs provide honest feedback and a roadmap for deeper cohesion and accountability.
- Repair & Reset Workshop: Facilitate open, constructive dialogue to surface breakdowns, clarify expectations, and re-establish trust, accountability, and communication.
- Culture Reflection & Redesign: Define the kind of culture the board needs to function well — and the shifts required to get there.
- Behavioural Commitment Planning: Co-develop agreed norms and accountability structures to sustain improved dynamics and rebuild cohesion.
Our assessments and workshops ensure boards address and resolve issues, and equip participants with the skills to foster trust and a cohesive, effective board culture.
Navigating Disruption & Uncertainty
We equip boards to stay grounded, connected, and forward-focused amid complexity and change.
Assessment & Workshop for Boards and Executive Teams
In times of crisis, complexity, or rapid change, boards must be able to lead with steadiness, clarity, composure and agility—especially when immediate answers are uncertain and elusive. This requires more than technical competence; it calls for what poet John Keats termed “negative capability”: the ability to remain reflective and effective amidst uncertainty.
Our Navigating Disruption & Uncertainty program equips board members and executive leaders with the psychological and strategic tools to respond constructively to disruption—without defaulting to panic, paralysis, or premature decision-making.
This workshop is ideal for governance teams looking to:
- Drive Resilience – Enhance their resilience and emotional containment under pressure, and build their capacity for being comfortable with the uncomfortable
- Increase Adaptive Thinking – Foster a board culture that embraces a dynamic risk mindset, adaptive thinking, and creative uncertainty
- Build Courageous Stewardship – Deepen collective capacity for ‘sitting with uncertainty’ – composure, flexibility, and strategic foresight
Included Offering: Audacity Labs – Cultivating Bold Boards
A dynamic, board-level innovation lab designed for those ready to evolve beyond risk aversion. This experience challenges traditional mindsets and explores:
- What bold governance looks like in uncertain times
- Which unconscious fears or patterns hold boards back from courageous leadership
- How to shift from control and caution to curiosity, experimentation, and trust
Our workshop equips boards and executives to reset mindsets, providing a strategic mirror and encouraging a bold step toward building a governance culture that is resilient and thrives on ambiguity, not despite it. If your board is ready to move from fear to foresight, from rigidity to resilience, this program is your starting point.
Coaching for Board Directors, Chairs & CEOs
Our tailored coaching programs empower board directors, chairs, and CEOs to navigate the complex dynamics of governance with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Our tailored coaching programs empower board directors, chairs, and CEOs to navigate the complex dynamics of governance with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Through a personalised approach, we support leaders in:
- Enhancing Leadership and Communication Skills: Improve influence, inspire trust, and foster a collaborative culture within the boardroom and across the organisation.
- Strengthening Board-CEO Relationships: Align perspectives, establish clear boundaries, and enhance mutual respect and understanding between the board and executive team.
- Navigating Conflict and Building Resilience: Develop constructive approaches to addressing disagreements, managing challenges, and promoting productive dialogue to create a unified board environment.
Our coaching focuses on real-world applications, guiding leaders through hands-on strategies that lead to measurable improvements in board dynamics and overall organisational performance.
Our process
Every engagement with Board Synergy follows a structured pathway designed to deliver insight, clarity, and sustainable improvement.
Discovery & Context
We begin with a comprehensive discovery of your board’s engagement brief and operating environment. This includes clarifying priorities, challenges, and aspirations.
Diagnosis & Insight
Through qualitative inquiry (confidential interviews, live meeting observations, facilitated conversations) and quantitative analysis (surveys, diagnostics, data review), we identify patterns, dynamics, and barriers to effectiveness.
Chair Briefing
We present a high-level briefing to the Chair on inquiry findings and recommended pathways for intervention. This ensures alignment on priorities, secures leadership support, and sets the tone for constructive board engagement.
Tailored Intervention
Drawing on agreed insights, we design bespoke interventions aligned to your board’s needs, such as:
- Customised workshops
- Targeted coaching for directors, Chairs, or CEOs
- Facilitated discussions to address conflict, trust, or alignment
Embedding & Momentum
We don’t just deliver recommendations — we equip your board with practical tools and strategies to maintain progress. Our approach ensures continuous improvement, stronger trust, and long-term cultural resilience.