2025 Public Company Board Practices Oversight Survey

Data Pack: Board-CEO Relationship

07/28/2025

 

What impact do you believe the quality of your board-CEO relationship has on the following areas? 

 

Impact Areas

Extremely negative

Somewhat negative

Neither positive nor negative

Somewhat positive

Extremely positive

n

Crisis response effectiveness

0.62%

4.35%

27.33%

34.78%

32.92%

161

Agile decision-making by leadership team

0.61%

4.88%

17.07%

43.90%

33.54%

164

CEO leadership development

0.61%

6.10%

12.80%

45.73%

34.76%

164

Organizational performance

1.23%

3.07%

14.11%

46.01%

35.58%

163

Health of the management culture

1.22%

3.05%

14.63%

37.20%

43.90%

164

CEO effectiveness

1.23%

5.52%

9.82%

37.42%

46.01%

163

Board effectiveness

0.61%

4.91%

7.36%

44.17%

42.94%

163

Health of the board culture

1.22%

5.49%

6.71%

31.10%

55.49%

164

 

This table comes from the Board-CEO Relationship section of the 2025 NACD Public Company Board Practices and Oversight Survey.