Governance in Focus conducts independent external board performance reviews for ASX listed companies. Our board evaluations are designed around the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations, your board charter, and your continuous disclosure environment, giving your board evidence it can rely on and your shareholders confidence in your governance.
Board Evaluation Under the ASX Corporate Governance Principles
The ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations ask listed entities to have and disclose a process for periodically evaluating the performance of the board, its committees, and individual directors, and to disclose whether an evaluation was undertaken in the reporting period. An independent external board review, supported by internal assessments in intervening years, is widely regarded as leading practice for listed company boards.
What an ASX Listed Board Review Covers
- Whole of board effectiveness against your board charter and the ASX Principles
- Committee performance, including audit, risk, remuneration and nomination committees
- Individual director contribution and chair effectiveness
- Board and management information flows, board pack quality and meeting effectiveness
- Skills matrix review, succession planning and board composition
- Governance disclosures, including your corporate governance statement
Independent, Confidential and Board Led
Reviews are led personally by Kirsten Smith, Chartered Governance Professional and member of the Governance Institute of Australia and the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Every engagement combines a bespoke questionnaire built from your own governance documents with confidential director and executive interviews, and concludes with a practical board report suitable to support your governance disclosures.
Governance in Focus works with boards across listed, regulated, government and not for profit environments. To discuss an external board review for your listed company, contact info@governanceinfocus.com.au.