Board Chairman & NED

Odgers Berndtson’s Board Practice is responsible for some of the most important recent Chairman and Non-Executive Director (NED) appointments as well as for executive board roles. Recent appointments include Chairmen of FTSE companies, major national corporations, the world’s largest charities and a range of public sector and private businesses.

Typically, the Board Practice team will be involved in appointments to some 30 boards at any one time.

Our role is to advise on how a board could be structured, who might best fill the role and how to attract them. Then we implement our advice and combine flair, rigour and teamwork in our search for people who will add real value.

Flair comes from very bright, experienced and motivated professionals who have a passion for finding interesting people who are right for the role. Rigour underpins the flair.

Good process ensures that the ground is thoroughly covered; it ensures that candidates are impeccably treated; and it helps to ensure that the client and other stakeholders are consulted and involved.

Teamwork means that every search is contributed to by many of our people in addition to the partners and researchers who take the lead roles. While we draw from an international pool of talent, we have particular expertise in serving UK businesses. Our board practice includes a mix of long-serving professional recruiters and people who bring expertise from other walks of life, including business, politics and the media. We deploy teams with a mix of talents, with contacts at the highest levels of the corporate and public sectors.

We provide development seminars for non-executives in the shape of our popular NED programme. We are also a leading provider of executives for interim positions on UK boards.

Read more about our NED programme.