
Board Excellence
Impact Boards Emerging Markets are partnered with Board Excellence to provide training and education services to our growing community of board directors and aspiring board directors in emerging markets.
Our training and education workshops focus on a variety of corporate governance themes, both general and specialist, with practical applications in emerging market board contexts. Besides typical board dynamics and the ever growing complex challenges posed by regulatory changes, digitalisation, fraud, cybersecurity, AI and sustainability, among others, these workshops will look through the cultural perspectives of emerging market countries when focusing on specific themes.


ABOUT BOARD EXCELLENCE
Board Excellence is a leading global board and governance practice, supporting boards and directors across the world, excel in effectiveness, governance and performance. They support a wide range of boards across various sectors including; stock-market listed companies, corporates, private equity and venture-capital backed companies, private companies and family businesses, public sector and charity/non-profit boards. Through evaluating, training and supporting boards and directors in both developed and developing markets, Board Excellence has developed a strong set of practical best practices to help boards and directors drive sustained improvement in their effectiveness and value add.
Board Excellence provides a wide range of board and governance services including;
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External Board Evaluations
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Board and Director Training
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Board and Governance Advisory Services
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Board Dispute Mediation
MEET THE TEAM
Kieran Moynihan
Managing Partner, Board Excellence
As the founder of Board Excellence, Kieran has worked extensively with boards across Ireland, UK and internationally in a wide range of sectors and scale of organisations. He has over 25 years’ experience serving on boards as a CEO, Executive Director, Non-Executive Director and Board Chair.
He is currently the Board Chair of several internationally focused companies across various industry sectors.
Kieran is an internationally recognised thought leader in board dynamics, effectiveness, performance and corporate governance. He is a regular contributor to leading international board publications and has developed ground-breaking new approaches to optimising the “people equation of the board” and the partnership between executive and non-executive board members, enabling the board and executive team to excel as a high-performing team.
To read thought leadership articles on boards, directors and governance authored by Kieran, please visit his LinkedIn page here.
MEET THE PARTNER
Interview with Kieran Moynihan
Welcome to our video interview featuring Kieran Moynihan, Founder and Managing Partner at Board Excellence, where we explore the insights and experiences that shape our collaboration. Join us as we discuss board themes and uncover the vision behind our partnership.
In this video, Kieran highlights his views on the biggest challenges faced by boards now and how Board Excellence can help them tackle these challenges (0:00). Kieran also discusses his partnership with Impact Boards EM (0:50), what value the platform can bring to board directors and senior executives (1:45) and what differentiates Impact Boards EM from its peers (3:00).
Teaser Training with Kieran Moynihan
In June 2024, Impact Boards Emerging Markets and Board Excellence hosted a one-hour interactive online webinar featuring Kieran Moynihan, Managing Partner and Founder of Board Excellence. This was our first joint introductory event, following the recent announcement of our strategic partnership.
During this introductory workshop Kieran focused on 3 key considerations for corporate boards globally:
1) Strategy and business model agility
2) Addition of new skillsets and refreshing the board composition
3) Grasping the nettle of CEO succession planning
Important Disclaimer: Chatham House Rules apply to this video recording. When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, subject to strict restrictions. Under these, the identities of third parties mentioned, event participants, the event speakers or their affiliations may not be revealed.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Our training and education webinars focus on a variety of corporate governance themes, both general and specialist, with practical applications in emerging market board contexts.
Besides typical board dynamics and the ever growing complex challenges posed by regulatory changes, digitalisation, fraud, cybersecurity, AI and sustainability, among others, these workshops will look through the cultural perspectives of emerging market countries when focusing on specific themes.