Join a board

If you’re in a senior role within a corporate or successful SME, you’ll have experienced the ups and downs of leading a business. Are you ready to turn that experience into expertise and share your learnings with small business leaders who need your help?

Across the course of a year, you’ll work with a small group of senior leaders to add external ideas and perspectives to the thinking of two ambitious small businesses.

If you would like more information please reach out to us at networks@bethebusinesss.com and we'll be able to help. If you'd like to get a board for your business, visit our dedicated page.

How advisory boards work

Share some basic information with us so we can place you with two businesses that need your skills
Get matched with a small group of senior leaders
Join 90-minute online meetings four times over six months to ask questions and offer insights on key challenges
Help the businesses identify actions to take away and complete between meetings

What to expect from the advisory board experience

Introduction to Be the Business Boards

2:10

Find out how our advisory boards programme has a track record of providing a great way for professionals to develop leadership capabilities, gain non-executive director style experience and support small businesses.

What I’ve gained from the programme

4:00

Looking back on their experience, board members and business leaders reflect on what they got out of the programme – from tangible business improvements to skills enhancements.

Myth busting by board members

3:05

Programme participants look back on some of the concerns they had before taking part and explain why, ultimately, the benefits far outweighed any initial reservations.

Stories from programme participants

Find out more

Chris Reeves

Vice president, Cisco

“The whole experience was brilliant. It’s good to bring in perspectives from bigger businesses and see how that can be applied to small businesses in a pragmatic way.”