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CEO 360 evaluation

Lack of regular, comprehensive feedback for your organization’s chief executive can lead to unclear leadership expectations, stagnation in growth, and missed opportunities for development. By providing invaluable feedback, you will foster growth, strengthen the CEO-board relationship, and ensure a clear path for improvement and alignment with organizational goals. 

How CEO 360 evaluation adds value

Leadership clarity

Provides clear insights into CEO performance, driving growth and strategic alignment.

Continuous improvement

Fosters ongoing evaluation, ensuring leadership development and accountability. 

Board alignment

Strengthens CEO-board relationship, aligning leadership expectations and goals. 

Targeted growth

Offers actionable feedback to guide CEO development and performance. 

Stakeholder confidence

Collects feedback from stakeholders, enhancing leadership transparency. 

Performance transparency

Clarifies strengths and areas for growth, empowering the CEO to improve impact. 

Get data-driven insights into CEO performance and alignment with organizational goals. Transform performance evaluations into actionable growth opportunities with support from experienced leadership advisors.Through feedback from key internal and external stakeholders, our structured approach will align the CEO and board, and strengthen teams across the organization. Here’s how: 

What to expect

Through feedback from key internal and external stakeholders, our structured approach will align the CEO and board, and strengthen teams across the organization. Here’s how: 

Comprehensive evaluation

We gather feedback from key stakeholders to assess CEO performance across all critical areas. 

Customizable design

We work with you to tailor the evaluation process to meet your specific organizational needs and goals. 

Data-driven insights

Our analysis of survey responses and interviews delivers clear themes and actionable recommendations for growth. 

Confidential feedback

We ensure confidentiality, giving participants the space to provide candid insights into the CEO’s performance. 

Actionable feedback

We provide a thorough debrief of the final report, reinforcing positive behaviours and clarifying areas for improvement. 

Post-evaluation support

We offer optional follow-up services such as coaching, facilitating discussions, and conducting additional assessments to ensure continued development. 

Clients who have seen results

Explore case studies detailing how our CEO 360 evaluations have empowered leaders and boards with actionable insights, fostering growth, alignment, and a shared vision for the future.

Unlocked CEO’s strategic growth potential

"We need to know if our new CEO is equipped to lead us through this strategic transformation."

-Board chair, Confidential client

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Expert opinion

"It’s critical to build the strength of the relationship between the board and the CEO. Evaluating the CEO’s strengths and weaknesses allows both the leader and the board to build upon or mitigate where needed. It’s a very proactive tool that engages the front-line staff, management and executives, and allows for a lot of internal feedback."

Alison Marshall
Client solutions in strategy and leadership

Additional support

By securing the top performance of your executive leadership, you can drive increased organizational success with additional opportunities to coach your leaders, enhance your governance, and strengthen your board:

Strengthen your board

Enhance board effectiveness and build strong partnerships for better governance and strategic direction.  

Board training | Board and governance transformation | Board chair and CEO partnership evaluation

Grow your leaders

Provide personalized support to help leaders grow, develop their strengths, and lead with confidence.  

CEO 360 evaluation | Team coaching | Leadership development | Executive search

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