Good practice Imported

Boardroom Coaching (the Netherlands)

Netherlands · National · See the Netherlands profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 32% 82/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

It is a 1-year programme held every year. It shows that networking with directors is an effective way for female executives with great potential to be promoted to boardroom positions. Nearly all the participants of the Boardroom Coaching programme make a significant career move w

~50 (25 pairs)

Participants per year

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Talent naar de Top — website
Power domain: Economic Power
Methods / tools: Awareness-raising, Networking
Keywords: group and individual coaching, gender diversity awareness, women representation in leading positions

Context

Boardroom Coaching is a Dutch one-year programme pairing high-potential female executives with sitting directors as coaches — about 50 professionals (25 pairs) per year — combining roughly four 1-to-1 conversations with small-scale networking meetings and peer coaching circles.

Results

The organisers report that nearly all participants make a significant career move within two years of taking part, very often to a board of directors or supervisory board position.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

ProPEGE — Equal Leadership catalogue — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Promoter website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 82/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 32% in this catalogue (797 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by ProPEGE consortium (Equal Leadership)

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Transferability / replicability1/3

How readily the practice can be replicated or transferred to other contexts (graded 0–3).

Impact on gender equality1/1

Whether the practice demonstrably improved gender-equality outcomes.

Effectiveness1/1

Whether it achieved its intended objectives.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

Whether the outcomes were formally evaluated or measured.

Sustainability1/1

Whether the practice is ongoing or has lasting institutional structures.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

How well gender equality is embedded across strategy, continuity and financing.

Achievement / evidence1/1

The strength of documented evidence that the practice worked.

Curator validation1/1

The ProPEGE curators' validation of quality, scope and final approval.

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Evidoria. Boardroom Coaching (the Netherlands). Persistent ID: 52a41345-a3de-4886-9c8c-425e5fe4df1b.

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