Broaden your perspective. Strengthen your decisions.
Explore peer support for UK business owners
The Alternative Board brings together owners and leaders of established businesses through confidential peer advisory boards, one-to-one business coaching and practical strategic planning tools. Members receive experienced, impartial support to make better decisions, stay accountable and build a business that supports their wider goals.
Think about it this way. Say you’re considering expanding your business into a new sector. The opportunity looks promising, but you’re not sure whether the timing, investment or risk stacks up. What do you do?
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Option A: Back your own judgement and hope it’s the right decision.
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Option B: Take it to your peer board and test the opportunity with leaders who have entered new markets, diversified their businesses or made similar growth decisions.
You still make the call; you just make it with more perspective and fewer blind spots.

What’s included in a TAB membership?
Every TAB membership combines three connected elements: a monthly confidential peer advisory board, one-to-one coaching with an experienced TAB facilitator, and access to the Business Builder’s Blueprint and a wider community of business owners.
Together, they provide the perspective and accountability needed to turn business goals into practical action.
Business advisory boards
Each TAB peer advisory board brings together business owners and leaders from non-competing sectors. Meeting monthly in a confidential setting, members each share a current challenge or opportunity before drawing on the group’s experience and practical advice.
Every session is led by a TAB facilitator who ensures everyone contributes, gets value and helps turn ideas into accountable action.


One-to-one business coaching
Our personalised business coaching helps to keep you focused, accountable and on track to achieve your goals. Members receive a monthly session with their TAB facilitator and coach, to complement the advisory board sessions.
Business Builder’s Blueprint
As part of your membership, you have your own account to access the 'Business Builder’s Blueprint’ - a cloud-based strategic planning platform designed for business owners. It helps define their personal and business goals, turn them into a practical action plan, assign responsibilities and track progress.
Used alongside peer advisory boards and one-to-one coaching, it provides a clear framework for maintaining focus and accountability. Plus, it can be used by others within the business, not only you as the owner.
TAB Connect
Share best practices with and seek help from Iike-minded individuals in over 25 countries around the world.
Business owners can collaborate with one another to solve any business challenges through our exclusive online platform.

StratPro: Strategic Planning and Implementation for Leadership Teams
Take your business to the next level. Our proven business transformation programme StratPro, is specifically designed for management teams who want to achieve greater team alignment and accountability.
It combines proven strategic tools, expertly facilitated workshops, and follow-up sessions to create a compelling vision, establish a thriving culture, and ensure you have the tools to execute your plans efficiently.



HI-MAP: Leadership Development for Managers
Give your company a competitive edge. HI-MAP (High Impact Manager Accelerator Programme) is a practical leadership development programme for managers and emerging leaders. Delivered across four flexible development paths, it builds essential skills in communication, coaching, performance management, recruitment and strategic delivery.
Well-structured leadership and management training programs can lead to a:
- 20% improvement in job performance
- 25% increase in learning
- 28% increase in leadership behaviours among participants
Start your TAB journey
Get in touch to explore how the TAB community can help you and your business.
Arrange an initial meeting with your nearest board facilitator to get to know each other.
Discover whether TAB is right for you and your business.
Attend your first TAB board meeting and experience the power of peer support.
There’s no obligation, only an opportunity to find out more.
What do members say about their experience with TAB?
It’s having an ear to call on. Speaking to other business owners and understanding how they solved problems. Be it recruitment, growing your business or just managing your staff.
The Alternative Board has helped me to focus on the company’s key goals and objectives. You really don’t feel you are alone, there is a whole team of other business professionals to support you through any challenging issue you or your company is facing. It really is a great and positive motivating experience. Most importantly, the Board has made a fundamental difference to the performance and profitability of the business.
"TAB has given me coaching sessions, focusing on the positive elements of my business and helping to grow and develop during what is probably the most difficult trading period we have encountered. TAB has also invited me to a monthly board meeting where I joined six existing members, all of whom have extensive business experience and have provided me with some invaluable advice, guidance and accountability."
We've got boards running across the UK
Discover more by finding your nearest TAB board facilitator.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike traditional business meetings that many of us have experienced, a TAB board gives everyone equal time - equal time to discuss and seek help on their own challenge or opportunity. There is a structured process for the running of the meeting which means everyone also has the opportunity to give their own advice and opinion. We don't allow one person to 'hog' a meeting!
In combination with the TAB meeting, members also get access to our business coaching services.
As part of our business support services, the other business owners and leaders on your board will be very experienced and will have no vested interest in your business, other than a desire to help you. As a result, they'll give you impartial business advice based on real-world experience because often they will have faced similar challenges themselves. What's even greater is you get to do the same for them. Not only does the board provide accountability and expert advice, it becomes a mechanism for developing valuable friendships.
If you have decided you want to improve yourself and your business, but feel like you don't have the time, how will that change if you don't take action?
TAB's business advice services encourage you to take time away from your business. You then benefit from the insight, experience, and wisdom of your TAB facilitator and your fellow board members. It's a chance to take a step back. This way, you can actually save time by making better decisions and learning from others.
Whilst all businesses are unique in some way, they still face many of the same major issues with time, people, strategy, money, vision and exit.
You are an expert in your sector, but we are all experts in business. The advantage of working with fellow business owners and leaders from diverse backgrounds is their ability to provide new perspectives and different ways to handle the same situation based on real world experience.
You will also get the opportunity to help others with their business growth, by offering your perspective and advice. It's a win-win! (Read more about our business growth services.)
We are confident you will get a return on investment for your monthly TAB membership fee. As we offer personalised business support services, a conversation with your nearest TAB facilitator will guide you through the process and allow them to provide you with your bespoke quote.
We’re so confident in our service that we offer a money-back guarantee - if you don’t feel you’ve received value after three months of TAB membership, we’ll give your money straight back.
Put simply, no – a competitor cannot join your board. We have a comprehensive process which makes sure that you do not sit on a board with potential competitors. A key part of our screening process allows existing members to prevent new members from joining their board where they feel a conflict of interest could exist. This will guarantee no competitors join your group.
Some of our TAB facilitators offer the opportunity to attend a TAB Taster Board Meeting, giving you the chance to experience how TAB works and the value it can provide for you and your business. Equally, if there are places on an existing board and your facilitator thinks you'd be a good fit, they may invite you as a guest. Find your nearest TAB Facilitator to get the conversation started!
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