EXECUTIVE MENTORING

Having led organisations throughout their operational careers and now executing purely at Board level, our Board Mentors are perfectly positioned to offer the credible challenge and hard-edged conversations needed to be a successful leader.




As a trusted reference point and impartial sounding board, Criticaleye Board Mentors help our Members navigate the many challenges of leadership, so executives know what questions to ask. We have over 110 global Criticaleye Board Mentors who have held more than 200 CEO roles and hold in excess of 450 Board roles.



John Clarke

John Clarke

Board Mentor

John Clarke is Non-executive Chair at Companies House and UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS), and a Cabinet Office Crown Representative. He brings many years of Board-level experience gained from non-executive roles at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), Ordnance Survey, UK Ministry of Defence, and the Rail Safety Standards Board (RSSB). He says: "I’m delighted to take on the role of Criticaleye Board Mentor. Using my own experiences both at Board level and as an executive, I hope to help Members ask the right questions, embracing life at the intersection, so they can effectively drive change and take advantage of new technologies no matter what strategic goals they are working towards.”




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Criticaleye Board Mentors in APAC

Taken at our Asia Leadership Retreat, in this video we spoke to our Board Mentors in the region about the value of mentoring. Featuring comment from Benny H. Goh, Non-executive Director, Cyber Data Centre, Ray Ferguson,...

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Mentors create a safe space for leaders - the value of mentoring

Our Board Mentor, Catriona Schmolke, talks to us about how mentoring gives senior leaders a safe space to talk. Catriona became a Non-executive Director at Scottish Water in November 2021, where she is also a member of ...

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Criticaleye Board Mentors

Featuring comments from Criticaleye Board Mentors Mark Spelman, Non-executive Director, Buro Happold, Elisabeth Stheeman, Chair, Edinburgh Investment Trust and James Crosby, member of the Finance Committee of the Delega...








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