Women on Board

Set up in December 2009, Women on Board has achieved its primary goals:

• to create a pool of talented women ready to take up board positions
• to facilitate access to this pool for Belgian enterprises searching for female directors

Our Goals

Women on Board offers to help corporates, SME’s and NGO’s build gender-diverse boards. Women on Board counts 300 talented ladies ready for board positions, starting from C-Level experience to skillsets that vary from Financial, Digital, Strategy, Transformation, Science to People and many more. If you are looking for board members or advisory board members, we can connect you to these talents

Gender diverse boards contribute to better performing companies and organisations. Many types of research have demonstrated that gender-diverse boards arebetter performant, respect the equality of talents and are role models of inclusivity. As such, better performant organizations are more competitive and help the economy grow stronger. Women on Board supports the current targets to have 33 or 40 % women on boards, but aims higher and believes that boards with a 50 % gender composition will be the future normal.

Gender diverse boards are a leverage to engage for a better future. Organizations with gender-diverse boards are believed to generate added value on strong long-term vision, sustainability and considering the impact of the climate, next to good relations with social partners and having a clear diversity policy. These qualities are exactly the most top of mind challenges for boards and for society as a whole and cornerstones of the European Green Deal.