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2025 Board Effectiveness Survey

Boards advance with AI, yet PDFs still slow decisions. Learn from 549 board voices who shared their concerns and aspirations.

What To Expect

Get the clearest snapshot of the boardroom today—what improved, what slipped, and what to fix first. You’ll see where effectiveness and collaboration stabilized, how security bounced back, and how AI is already shaping prep and minutes, with concrete actions you can take now. Use the findings to tighten your system of record, cut admin chaos, and help directors walk in ready to decide.

A Year-Over-Year Pulse

71% say boards are more effective, collaboration hits 71%, and security confidence rebounds to 61% (see pages 7–8).

AI’s breakout year

69% used AI for board work, and AI users report higher effectiveness, collaboration, and security than non-users (pages 15–16).

The People Problem

respondents estimate ~36% of members are ineffective on average; 87% say at least 10% of their board isn’t pulling weight (pages 10–11).

The Tooling Gap

57% still distribute materials via email + PDFs; only 31% use digital tools—and most of those are generic office apps (page 20).

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