A Unique Alternative to Traditional Small Business Consulting and Executive Coaching Services

The Alternative Board® (TAB) brings business owners and executives into contact with peers in a way that immediately allows them to improve their management and grow their business. Through hands-on executive coaching services and proven small business consulting tools you'll learn how to dramatically improve your business's potential.

The Alternative Board creates, manages and facilitates advisory boards comprised of local business owners, directors, and CEOs who run non-competing businesses. Each month members of the advisory boards meet—led by a certified facilitator-coach —to share their business expertise and problem-solve each others’ challenges, confidentially within the board.

TAB board members also receive monthly private coaching sessions from their facilitator-coach using TAB’s small business consulting tools. These skilled business advisors help solve particularly sensitive issues and teach management and leadership techniques that can be immediately put into practice.

Each facilitator-coach has extensive top-level business management experience to further enhance the private coaching sessions and many offer specialised business consulting services within their area of expertise. TAB works to provide a well rounded group of business advisors and facilitators that serve as private coaches, guiding members through planning and development processes, and chairing and facilitating member boards.

More than 200 TAB executive coaches and business consultants now facilitate monthly board meetings across the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and South America. Unlike traditional small business consulting firms, TAB’s business consulting services were developed especially for small business owners. We understand the pains of small business owners, and therefore customise your TAB membership—which may include private coaching and small business consulting tools—to meet your goals.

During your private coaching sessions, you’ll use a combination of our business tools, including TAB Business Vantage®, Strategic Business Leadership®, TAB Hotline and the member-only intranet to develop goals and stay on track to achieve the level of success and freedom you desire. These small business consulting tools, combined with the advice that is brought to the table by other business owners further enhance these coaching sessions.