Consulting Analyst Governance Advisory

About Watson Board Advisors

At Watson, we help Boards be more effective so they can positively shape the future of their organizations. In partnership with our clients, we are tailored and practical in helping recruit and select the right Directors and CEO, strengthen governance, and navigate strategy and risk in a rapidly changing world.

We support clients in the following ways:

• Building a Strong Board - A Board is at its best when every member adds value. From supporting clients in identifying its needs, to recruiting and selecting new Directors, to succession planning for its leadership, to ensuring the Board’s composition is right for the next phase of its business, we help clients ensure they have the team they need to shape the future.
• Finding and Supporting Your CEO
  - Boards need the right leader to work in close partnership with their Board and take the organization to the next level. From crafting the right success profile for their incoming CEO, to helping them find and evaluate highly qualified candidates, to assessing and supporting their performance and leadership, to planning for succession, we help Boards find and support the most important partner in the Board’s work.
• Understanding the Board’s Performance
  - Improving as a Board starts with understanding where Boards are strong and what would make them even more effective. From conducting Board Evaluations to designing respectful processes for Director Feedback, we give the Board and its members a more objective and insightful view of their performance, along with practical ways to improve.
• Evolving Governance
  - Good governance evolves with an organization. From comprehensive Governance Reviews to the design and implementation of structures and practices, we equip Boards with the governance frameworks and tools it needs to support the next phase of its organizational journey.
• Achieving Alignment and Engagement - A Board is most effective when it engages the right issues at the right level at the right time. From facilitation to education and coaching, we help Boards align at the highest level, and optimize how, where, and when it tackles the most strategic issues facing its organization.

Founded in 2005, Watson is the most experienced board advisory firm in Canada. We do this work because we believe that high-performing, well-governed organizations create a stronger world, with their boards holding a critical and complex leadership role. People who work at Watson have a unique opportunity to have a positive impact on Boards of Directors and CEOs, the senior-most decision makers, at organizations throughout our country.

Over the last 20 years, we have supported more than 500 Boards across the full spectrum of sectors, ownership structures, and stages of evolution.

We are a fully independent Canadian Benefit Company that is female owned and led. Each year, we publish our benefit report, available on our website, demonstrating our commitment to operating responsibly with consideration for our interest holder groups.

1. Purpose-driven – We lead with purpose and impact

2. Always learning – We are open, curious, innovative and insightful

3. Human-centred – We take care with everything we do

4. Authentic – We are intentional, transparent and bold

5. Collaborative – Achieve more together

These values influence the type of workplace we strive to create and maintain, and the resulting experience for our people:

1. The workplace we strive to create and maintain:

2. Attracts and retains talent who will deliver exceptional client experiences

3. Cultivates a culture of learning, growth, and knowledge sharing

4. Demonstrates our care for each other and empowers others to act

5. Embeds diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in our business decisions

• A sense of purpose and contribution to healthy communities
• An environment of continuous learning and development
• Exposure to meaningful, unique work that guides and influences the ultimate authority (the Board) in most organizations
• Flexibility in how you structure your week to manage and deliver on your…