As a New Zealand business owner, have you ever felt isolated? That your family, friends and staff just don’t understand the pressures you face in running your business? That you end up making every single business decision? That you’d appreciate wise advice and guidance but just don’t know where to find an affordable option?

While CEOs of large corporations have boards of directors, smaller business owners are often on their own. You may have employees, but it’s often inappropriate to lean on them for advice and support about major decisions.

With The Alternative Board, you’re connected with a group of non-competing business owners to form your own peer-to-peer advisory board. All of you act as the advisors for each other. Every month you will share in each other’s challenges and opportunities and, using the collective wisdom of the group, give and receive impartial advice to one another.

Your fellow board members are just like you. They stand in your shoes, understand your issues, and ‘get it’.

The main idea of these sample sessions is for business leaders in our community to experience the benefits of sharing what they are doing to keep their business on track, to ask questions, and to offer each other advice. 

There is no charge for participating in these discussions – we are offering these sessions to both showcase what The Alternative Board approach can offer and also to give back to the vibrant Christchurch business community which we are proud to be a part of.

Sign up to a sample board session now!