Board Development
Elevating accountability and impact
We support your Board to move to its next level of potential, remaining accountable to your stakeholders, thoughtful about its impact and most importantly informed and strategic about its operations, composition, and performance.
Boards are one of the most powerful levers of social impact — and too often, one of the greatest risks. When they fail to take responsibility for growth, performance, or culture, the whole organisation feels the cost.
Our Board Development engagements create the space for Directors to reflect honestly on their effectiveness, gain feedback from stakeholders, and hold themselves accountable for the leadership they provide.
We support Boards to become cohesive, purposeful, and forward-looking — working in genuine partnership with the Executive while stewarding strategy, culture, and performance. The result is a Board that steps fully into its leadership role, driving impact and sustainability.
– from clients surveyed in our Impact Report 2025
Board Development
We help Boards step fully into their leadership role — reflecting on effectiveness, strengthening accountability, and deepening partnership with the Executive — so they can elevate performance and maximise their organisation’s impact.
"We engaged Leadership Space to undertake an evaluation of our Board and Directors as part of our Board health check and a broader review of our corporate governance framework. They respectfully understood and addressed our needs, challenged our views, shared their knowledge and expertise of not-for-profit governance, and workshopped with the Board towards opportunities for growth as a team and clarifying our Board’s role.
Our experience with Barb was extremely positive, and Marathon Health would recommend Leadership Space to other organisations looking for robust review of their corporate governance and Board culture."
Annette Crothers
Chair, Marathon Health
"Our strategic planning process was focussed and inclusive, thanks to the facilitation and support of Leadership Space. We now have a strategic plan that the board engages with at each board meeting and that the whole organisation can depend on for clarity in direction and impact.
Elise also guided us through the review of our board skills to assist with ongoing recruitment.
I am an enthusiastic referrer of the full suite of services at the Leadership Space."
Wendy Brooks
Chair, HOST International
“Leadership Space delivers one of the core modules of The Observership Program’s annual governance training for our 200 plus Observers. Over 2 hours they bring to life the importance of Theory of Change work and the unique way in which purpose and leadership intersect in our not for profit and government appointed boards. The sessions are deeply engaging and informative and are far and away one of the most popular sessions in the Program. Fantastic facilitators, highly experienced Board level operators and an absolute joy to work with.”