95.7%
agree that peer boards add real value to their business*
*Based on an online survey with 93 respondents who are active TAB members.
Stay Ahead in a Rapidly Changing World
Rapidly changing market conditions force companies to quickly update traditional day-to-day operations. In today’s environment, you have to be fast and nimble in order to seize opportunities, rise above challenges and respond to changing times..
The Alternative Board™ helps business owners and leaders confidently see new opportunities and achieve their strategic goals. We offer busy entrepreneurs a powerful, streamlined program that includes peer advisory boards, one-on-one business coaching, workshops, expert speakers, robust strategic business tools and invaluable TAB connections.
Why go it alone when you’re faced with important and complex decisions? Experience tight-knit relationships with other business leaders who expertly guide you, challenge you to think critically — and who genuinely care.
The Benefits of a TAB Membership for your Business
Be Empowered By Others
Practical, real-world advice from other successful business owners on our advisory boards.
Improve Your Leadership Skills
A different perspective on the issues and opportunities facing your business.
Facilitate Your Business Growth
Access to proven strategic business planning processes with our Business Builder’s Toolkit.
Get What You Want From Life
Guidance on how to achieve your ambitions – in your business and your personal life.
What Does the TAB Membership Include?
The Advisory Board
Discuss the challenges and opportunities that you face when running your business. Available virtually.
One-to-One Business Coaching
Focus on what is important and going to make a difference to you and your business. Available virtually.
Business Builder’s Blueprint
TAB members have access to a proven strategic business planning process.
TAB Connect
Join a global community of business owners who help each other to solve their business challenges.
“Since I joined TAB, my TAB board colleagues have shared with me in the TAB boardroom their different approaches to marketing, operations, pricing and costing, staff management and more. I understand the key drivers of growth and profit in my business even better and how to take my business on to a new level.”
“Since joining TAB I have made some good friends who laugh and cry together, which is testament to how strong the bond of the Board is. The different skills and diverse range of businesses on our Board means you get such a variety of views to help you see things from a new perspective. I couldn’t be without it to help me through some of the challenges I face and the bit of time I need to invest each month in the Board meetings and 1-to-1 sessions has made me more efficient and focused.”
We support business owners to take their business to the next level through;
a supportive advisory board and made up of other local business owners, expert 1-2-1 coaching and mentoring, and our suite of business tools.
But how do we differ from a traditional business coach and mentor or small business coach?
They may concentrate on improving your sales, sorting out your HR or helping you with your finances but that’s where it often ends.
At TAB, we’ll look at these too of course, but we’ll start with you, the business owner, as a person.
Our coaching sessions are designed to give you the time and space you
need to gain more clarity and focus on your business, with the additional support of the TAB Business Builder’s Blueprint.

There’s one date in my diary that I refuse to miss and that’s my monthly TAB board meeting. It’s my chance to meet with like-minded business owners whose opinion I really value and respect – when I can get out of the office for a few hours and know I’ll get invaluable insights from people, who’ve tackled the same kind of issues. They’re prepared to step into my shoes and often suggest a path I hadn’t even thought of.
– Source TBC
Sharing experience, knowledge, hopes, ambitions and fears with a board of peers is enormously beneficial to my business and to me as an individual. Consultants can only go so far – nothing beats the real life lessons that a peer group of this stature can give. Give me real experience over books and gurus any day!
– Ian Thompson, Thompson Brand Partners

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We believe so much in the value that TAB can bring to business owners, that we offer a 90 day satisfaction guarantee. Experience the Board and 1-to-1s for 3 months and if you don’t get value, we will give you back your money.
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