Organizations that perform at optimal levels build their systems and processes around good governance practices. An establishment that takes its governance seriously is therefore more likely to be sustainable in the longer term than one which pays lip-service to it. For this reason, increasingly, stakeholders, regulators and shareholders are focusing their attention on the nature and extent of an organization’s governance framework. This situation is all the more apparent for businesses that operate in regulated sectors of the economy. Our Governance services are tailor-suited towards identifying and addressing the specific governance issues that would help our clients to not only improve their Boards and Management processes as pertains to governance but to also establish in their processes, structures that will entrench best governance practices as a culture. These services include but are not limited to;

• The conduct of a comprehensive governance review of an organization’s level of compliance with the cardinal principles and best practices of sustainable corporate governance;

• Undertaking of Board Evaluation and Peer Review exercises to assess the effectiveness of the Board, Board Committees and individual Directors and match same against prior-year and performance and industry peers;

• Codification and documentation of Board and Committee Charters to ensure effectiveness and to act as a road map for performance improvement;

• Codification of functional, easily applicable and impactful Policies and Terms of reference including policies on Code of Ethics, Securities Trading, Communications, Whistle Blowing, Conflict Resolution, etc.;

• Conduct of Remuneration surveys and industry benchmarking; and

• Board Selection and Director recruitment services.