Boardroom on Demand: How Founders and Investors Build Smarter Boards with Fractional Leaders.

As businesses scale, raise funding, or prepare for exit, one overlooked asset becomes a game-changer: the board.

Whether it’s guiding strategic direction, unlocking investment, building trust with shareholders, or planning for succession — the board isn’t just governance. It’s growth infrastructure. And too often, it’s built too late, or with the wrong people in the room.

In today’s climate, too many businesses are hanging onto the wrong people for too long — or failing to bring in the right talent at the right moment. Investors lose confidence, founders burn out, and opportunities are missed not for lack of effort — but because the board wasn’t built to grow with the business.

This interactive roundtable brings together founders and investors to explore:

• What makes a high-functioning board (and how it’s different from a group of advisors)

• The growing role of fractional leaders — CFOs, Chairs, NEDs — who bring deep strategic input without full-time costs

• Why investors value embedded board insight — and how fractional experts can act as trusted eyes and ears inside the business

• How Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) reshape governance, succession, and oversight

Interactive highlight: You’ll use our Board Composition Canvas to map your current board, identify key strategic gaps, and plan the talent your business will need over the next 12–18 months.

• For founders, this is your opportunity to step back and design a board that aligns with your vision — not just your legal obligations.

• For investors, it’s a chance to hear how founders think about governance and succession — and to share what you look for in a board that signals trust, discipline, and future value.

The discussion will be informal, collaborative, and confidential — designed to create real value between peers who might not normally be in the same room.

This session is for:

• Founders scaling or planning succession

• Investors looking to strengthen governance across portfolios

• Fractional leaders shaping the next generation of boardrooms