Good businesses stall when nobody's allowed to challenge the owner.
An Advisory Board Chair puts the right people around your table — so your next big call gets made with real advice, not just instinct. Wherever your business is — emerging, growing, changing or exiting — we assess, build and run the board it needs, then step back once the job's done.
You know your business better than anyone. That's the problem.
And carrying every big call alone only gets heavier from here — even when you're good at it.
Public companies are required to have a board that can challenge the CEO. Private and family businesses usually have no one in that role — so blind spots stay blind spots, and good instincts go untested until they're expensive to unwind.
An advisory board fixes this without asking you to give up control. It's not a board of directors — no fiduciary duty, no legal authority, no dilution of ownership. Just a small, hand-picked group who've solved the problem you're facing now, at your table on a schedule that suits your business, for as long as it takes.
Most owners don't need more opinions. They need three or four of the right ones, in the room, on a schedule.
What an advisory board actually looks like
It's usually time to build the table when…
Most owners underestimate what going it alone actually costs.
Every year an owner delays getting independent advice, it usually shows up somewhere else on the ledger:
The cost of an advisory board is almost never the biggest cost. Most businesses wait until a decision is already urgent — which is usually about six months later than they should have started.
Find out where your business really stands — before you commit to anything.
The Business Growth Score is a confidential, 20-point assessment covering performance, profitability, risk, brand, systems and cashflow — benchmarked against real advisor sentiment data from thousands of businesses. You're not guessing where you sit; you're seeing it against the market.
You'll complete a short online survey, then sit down with Corinne for a personal feedback session to walk through your results and identify your top priorities.
From good to great, in three sittings at the table
Find Out If You're Ready
A no-obligation conversation to map where an advisory board would actually move the needle in your business, plus a free Business Growth Score Report — a 20-point assessment benchmarked against real advisor data — to see where the risk sits today.
Get Board-Ready in 90 Days
Your Chair pressure-tests your purpose, strategy and numbers, then designs a board around the problems you actually need solved — charter, code of conduct and advisor selection criteria included.
Select Advisors & Run the Board
We draw on a wider network than the people already in your contacts to find, vet and induct the advisors your business actually needs. As each problem is solved, the board resets around the next one — chaired throughout for continuity, mentoring and momentum.
The people who'll sit at your table
Plus a wider network of specialist advisors, brought in as required for the specific problem your business is facing.
Corinne Butler
Principal Consultant and Director of Tweak HR, and a practising non-executive director with current board roles at Brighter Super and Energy Queensland. Over 20+ years across executive and governance roles — including as Chief People Officer at Aruma and Southern Cross Support Services — she has chaired or advised more than a dozen boards, from mum-and-dad operations to billion-dollar organisations. Accredited DiSC facilitator and Human Synergistics practitioner.
Andrew Hetherington
Current CEO of AGOSCI, a national not-for-profit, and founder of CareerPD, his own governance and advisory consultancy. Over two decades as Managing Director and CEO across financial services and education — including 16 years leading a national Registered Training Organisation — with board and advisory experience spanning financial services, education, technology, disability and community sectors.
Stuart Allinson
Specialises in policy, advisory and governance for technology and energy businesses. A Fellow and founding member of the Advisory Board Centre, currently a Non-Executive Director at Glow and an Energy Transition Partner with Startupbootcamp, and a former Board Member of the federal Climate Change Authority.
Dr Michael Young AM
Company director, project management leader and entrepreneur recognised with a Member of the Order of Australia. Founder of Transformed, a national Registered Training Organisation, Global Ambassador for GPM Global, and former Chair of the ACT Building & Construction Training Fund Authority, with two decades of leadership across the Australian Institute of Project Management.
What the table changes
A growing Queensland disability and community services provider needed to strengthen its governance and strategic direction as it scaled rapidly through a period of significant growth.
Corinne chaired the organisation's advisory board, working with the owners and leadership team to strengthen governance, strategy and organisational capability.
Following that work, Corinne was invited to join the executive team as Chief People Officer to help lead the organisation's next phase — a direct reflection of the credibility and trust built through the board's contribution.
Common questions
Your business doesn't need another opinion. It needs a table.
Request a confidential, no-obligation conversation and find out where an advisory board would move the needle in your business.
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