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NED services help people move into and succeed in non-executive director and board roles. This covers NED and board-readiness training, NED coaching and mentoring, CV and profile support, board search and matching, and professional networks for aspiring and sitting non-executive directors, chairs and trustees.
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Exec-appointments is a senior executive and non-executive job board owned by the Financial Times. Its board-level section lists non-executive director, chair and trustee roles across listed companies, private businesses, the public sector and not-for-profit organisations, alongside its wider executive vacancies.
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Boardroom Advisors is a UK network, established in 2016, that places part-time and fractional board members with SMEs and scale-ups: non-executive directors, chairs, board advisors, mentors and fractional executives across finance, sales, marketing, HR, IT and operations. It works through a regional director model, with more than 200 experienced advisors in the UK and offices in Ireland, Spain and Portugal, and engagements starting from as little as one day per quarter.
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Criticaleye is a global peer-to-peer community for board-level leaders, with more than 20 years' experience developing executives and leadership teams. Its members are CEOs, CFOs, chief people officers, chairs and non-executive directors, largely at large and listed organisations. It provides confidential peer discussion groups, board mentoring, retreats and forums, leadership research, and structured programmes such as its Chair-Ready pathway.
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UK peer-led non-executive director and board advisory network connecting NEDs, chairs and fractional board members with companies, private equity, venture capital and family office investors. Majority stake acquired by Leonard Curtis in 2024. Offers membership, board vacancy listings, events, and licensed search services for hiring board talent. It also offers a NED course.
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The Institute of Directors (IoD) is the UK's professional body for company directors, founded in 1903 and operating under a Royal Charter. It provides director training and qualifications (including the Chartered Director designation), governance guidance, policy representation, and member services, and its NED Hub offers factsheets, guides, webinars and CPD specifically for non-executive directors.
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The Financial Times Non-Executive Directors' Club is a board development programme run by the FT in partnership with the research firm Winmark. It offers board-readiness training, events, briefings and peer networking for aspiring and serving non-executive directors, drawing on FT journalism and research.
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UK's leading skills-based volunteering charity. Matches skilled professionals with trustee, advisory and pro bono roles at charities and social enterprises. Also runs TrusteeWorks, a paid bespoke trustee search service for organisations wanting a fully managed recruitment process.
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MRA Executive Coaching runs a NED coaching programme, the Advanced Non-Executive Director professional accreditation, for senior executives and aspiring non-executive directors. It combines three one-to-one executive coaching sessions and a Hogan psychometric assessment with five full-day modules covering strategic decision-making, risk management and corporate governance.
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NEDExchange is one of the UK's longest-running non-executive director opportunity services, operating for more than 25 years. It matches experienced executives with NED, chair and trustee vacancies across the private, public and charity sectors, and supports members preparing for their first board roles.
Praesta Partners is a specialist executive coaching firm working with senior leaders: board members, chief executives, senior partners and directors across the private, public and third sectors. It operates as a partnership of experienced coaches rather than a training provider, with practitioners typically accredited at senior level by bodies such as the EMCC and the Association for Coaching. Praesta has offices across the UK and a network of international partner firms.
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Charity trustee recruitment platform helping increase the number of trustees aged 30 and under on UK charity boards. Provides free trustee vacancy listings for young people, board-readiness training, and the Board Boost Trustee Accelerator Programme - distinct from corporate non-executive director recruitment.
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GetBoardwise is a UK non-executive director placement and outreach service. Rather than a passive job board, it runs targeted LinkedIn and direct outreach campaigns to CEOs, chairs and founders on behalf of aspiring NEDs and board advisors, and reports more than 400 paid board placements to date.