Alison Gill is a behavioural psychologist, triple Olympian and the co-founder of Bvalco, a board evaluation consultancy focused on helping boards become fit for the future.
Acknowledge anxiety to enhance board decision-making
Rather than pretending these feelings of anxiety don’t exist, or pushing them away, it’s important that we use these feelings to enhance decision-making. Emotion is a vital source of information.
There is substantial evidence that we make better decisions if we intentionally assess our emotional state prior to making a decision. So adopting a ‘feel-think-act-review’ cycle ensures that boards can leverage all the information available, including emotional information.
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Ensuring that boards receive relevant and reliable management information remains one of the central challenges of effective governance.
The FTSE Women Leaders Review 2026 celebrates significant and positive change in addressing gender imbalance in the board room, with public and private companies in the FTSE 350 at or near a 40% target for appointing women onto boards.
