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— Board Pulse · by JOH Partners

See the health of your leadership in real time.

One platform to assess, develop, reward and plan for your leaders. Twelve modules, one board-ready view.

Board Pulse · Q4 2026
12 modules
84
Health Index
3 of 8
Succession cover
High
Retention risk
Leadership layerToday
  • Group CEOLow
  • Group CFOWatch
  • Vertical MD · IndustrialElevated
  • CHROLow
  • Chief of StaffLow
— The platform

Senior decisions are rarely short of information. They’re short of a single place to put it.

The assessment, the succession slide, performance, pay — each sound on its own, none of it resolving into anything a board can act on. Board Pulse puts it in one place.

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One connected view

Leadership, talent, succession, development and reward in one ecosystem.

02

Board-ready by design

Every output structured to take straight into the room.

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Evidence, not instinct

Structured scoring and JOH Partners market data behind every read.

04

Built to compound

Each lens sharpens the others.

Built for boards, chief executives, chief people officers and investors — each sees the part of the platform they own.

— Built for the perimeter you already operate in

Confidential by design.

SOC 2 Type II

Independently audited; data isolated per tenant, never pooled across clients.

GDPR & PDPL aligned

Built for your committee's regulatory perimeter.

Read-only by default

No personal pay or HR PII unless you grant it.

Owned by the chair

Accounts created by JOH Partners, permissioned per user and module; feedback only ever shown in aggregate.

— Inside the platform

Four lenses on the same leadership layer.

Lens 01

Who your people are

Roster, talent profiles, nine-box, live org-health dashboard.

Lens 02

How they lead

Colours, 360 and psychometrics, reconciled into one panoramic read.

Lens 03

Where you're exposed

Succession readiness, bench depth, retention risk.

Lens 04

What it costs, what's next

Reward, performance, development and board effectiveness.

— One intelligence layer

Twelve modules. Switch on what you need.

Each works on its own; run one or run several. No sample data anywhere — every surface is empty until yours goes in, so it’s board-safe from day one.

Assessment & leadership insight

Leadership Colours

How a person prefers to work, across four colour energies, with a team colour map and scenario planning.

The Leadership Profile

The JOH Partners proprietary psychometric: traits, cognitive reasoning, risk flags and a readiness call.

Internal Assessment & Evaluation

Structured 360 feedback, executive assessment and board reviews, with gap analysis and cohort tracking.

Panorama

The synthesis layer. All three assessment lenses reconciled into one board-grade view of a person and a team.

Talent, succession & development

Talent Intelligence

The organisational spine: people records, the talent profile, nine-box mapping and the executive dashboard.

Succession Planning

Successors, bench depth, readiness and role-risk scoring for business-critical positions.

Retention Risk

Risk profiles and drivers for key people, banded and tracked, with the interventions that address them.

Development Plans

Individual development plans drafted from real assessment data, with objectives and tracked interventions.

Performance, hiring, reward & governance

Performance

Goals and KPIs held against the person and linked directly to their development objectives.

Talent Acquisition

Branded careers portal, competency scorecards, CV scoring, interview packs and candidate pipelines.

Compensation & Reward

Market benchmarking, package architecture, pay against performance, retention economics and scenario modelling.

Board & Governance

Board composition, independence and tenure, effectiveness, board succession and appointment suitability.

— The complete leadership assessment

Most businesses look at a leader through one lens. Almost none look through all three at once.

For boards, CEOs & CPOs

Three instruments, three questions:

  • Colours — how they work, in their own view.
  • 360 — how others experience them.
  • Leadership Profile — what’s underneath, and what’s next.

Most organisations look at one. Panoramareconciles all three into a single view of a person — and that’s where the value is.

“Where the lenses agree, you have a high-confidence signal. Where they diverge, you have the most valuable finding of all — the blind spot no single test can show you.”

Reads at three altitudes

Individual

One Total Talent Profile per leader.

Team

The whole group in one picture.

Scenario

Model a restructure or a gap before it happens.

That panoramic read flows into Development, Retention, Reward and Succession — and tells you exactly what to search for outside when the gap is real.

— Turn insight into action

A development plan that drafts itself from evidence.

For CPOs & HR

Set the route — promotion or improvement in role — and the plan builds from that person’s real data: psychometrics, 360 gaps, Colours, nine-box, succession and retention. Where a lens is missing it says so rather than guessing, so the plan addresses what the evidence shows — not what was remembered from the last conversation.

— One view of what you pay

What you pay, what the market pays, what it buys you, and what it would cost to change it — one continuous read.

For CPOs & remuneration committees

One record per person, in their own currency, read five ways:

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Benchmarking

Where each person sits against the market.

02

Reward Architecture

How the package is built, and where your own population disagrees with itself.

03

Pay vs Performance

The strong-and-underpaid and the over-invested, side by side.

04

Retention Economics

The cost of losing someone against the cost of keeping them.

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Scenario Planner

Model a change and see the exact cost before you commit.

— However you want to run it

Delivered at the level of support you actually want.

Consultant-led

Fully managed

JOH Partners runs it end to end; you receive conclusions and a plan.

Best when it's a one-off, high-stakes programme, or there's no internal capacity to run it.

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Hybrid

Partly managed

Your team runs the day to day; we advise at the decisions that matter.

Best when you have a capable people function but want senior judgement on the calls.

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Subscription

Self-managed

Your team operates it; advisory on request.

Best when assessment and talent work is a standing internal capability.

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All three include full platform access. The right fit — and the commercials — depend on your organisation.

— FAQ

What boards and leadership teams ask us first.

  • A board pack is point-in-time, prepared by the board secretary and structured around what the executive team wants the board to see. Board Pulse is continuous, neutral, and structured around what decision-makers need to see, with JOH Partners market intelligence overlaid.
— See what your board would see

Understand your leadership before it becomes a problem.

A 30-minute walkthrough against an anonymised dataset shaped like your organisation.

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