Grow faster with the right people in the room
Board of Directors is a 12-month, peer-led strategic advisory experience for established business owners and entrepreneurs who know their business is capable of more and are ready to unlock its next phase of growth, performance and sustainable success.
This is not a course.
This is not surface-level coaching.
This is a working boardroom for people who want to build better businesses, with others who get it.
Board of Directors exists because building and growing a serious business is heavy and, for most owners, it’s carried far too quietly.
The decisions are constant.
The responsibility is real.
The pressure doesn’t switch off.
Most owners don’t need more information. They need space to think clearly, a place to challenge their own assumptions, and people around them who genuinely understand the weight they carry. This program was built to give established business owners exactly that environment.
Not as motivation.
Not as theory.
But as business growth infrastructure.
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The real power of Board of Directors isn’t just the structure or the facilitation. It’s the room.
You sit alongside other business owners who carry real commercial responsibility, lead teams and assets, make high-stakes decisions regularly, and understand the mental load that comes with ownership. And critically, they operate in non-competing businesses.
That’s what creates trust.
That’s what creates honesty.
That’s what allows real challenge.
You don’t arrive to be taught. You arrive to think.
You bring real numbers, real people challenges, real growth constraints and real decisions to the table. Your thinking is sharpened through peer challenge and expert facilitation, not generic advice.
When the room is right, clarity comes faster. Confidence strengthens. Leadership becomes cleaner. Growth becomes more deliberate. This is why owners often say the biggest shift wasn’t what they did, but how they now think about their business.
CONTACT USSwiften Business Growth Coaches curate each Board of Directors group.
Each board consists of up to five selected, non-competing businesses.
Between boardroom sessions, members receive ongoing support and accountability to ensure momentum is maintained and priorities stay aligned.
The group meets quarterly for full-day, in-person facilitated boardroom sessions, focused on:
→ Strategic growth and direction
→ Commercial performance
→ Leadership and structure
→ Long-term development
Through collaborative discussion and shared problem-solving, members receive expert guidance on:
→ Setting strategic direction
→ Tracking progress
→ Making clearer decisions
→ Achieving defined objectives
At Swiften, we don’t separate business performance from leadership capacity. Our work is guided by one principle:
Strong businesses are built where clarity, structure, leadership and personal capacity meet.
Everything inside the Board of Directors operates across four connected layers.
- Strategic Clarity
Where the business is heading and what must change to get there. - Commercial Structure
Systems, people, cashflow, pricing and capacity that either support growth or quietly restrict it. - Leadership & Decision Quality
How you think, decide, communicate and lead when the stakes are high. - Owner Capacity
The energy, confidence and headspace required to carry growth without burning out.
We don’t treat these as separate, because in real businesses, they never are.
This is why the Board of Directors creates structural change, not just short-term momentum.
Across Your
12 Months, You Receive
- Quarterly full-day, in-person boardroom sessions.
- A fixed cohort of up to five aligned, non-competing businesses.
- Monthly virtual board check-ins for accountability and momentum.
- Expert facilitation across strategy, finance, leadership and mindset.
- Live planning frameworks and decision tools.
- Quarterly priorities and structured accountability.
- Access to Swiften’s wider specialist coaching team.
- Full access to Swiften Academy: a 10-module, 4-course suite of learning and tools you can access anytime.
- Inclusion in a group WhatsApp group for weekly accountability.
Meet Your Swiften Coaches.
Scott McDouall
FOUNDER & HEAD COACH
Scott brings over 25 years of business experience in growth organisations. He has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by growth businesses & is passionate about transforming people’s businesses & lives.
Bella Reynolds
BUSINESS GROWTH COACH
Helping business owners get out of their own way to scale sustainably. With more than 30 years in business, Bella knows that lasting growth doesn’t just come from strategy; it comes from the leader behind the strategy.
“After these Board of Director days you feel like you can run through brick walls”
Grazing Business, NSW
"Joining the Board of Directors was the first time in 15 years I wasn’t making major decisions alone. It has completely changed how I lead and how my business now runs without me."
Mixed Enterprise, NSW
“I came for strategic clarity, but the group became my board. The accountability and honesty are unlike anything we’d had before.”
Regional Manufacturing, QLD
“The biggest shift for me was confidence. I now make decisions with conviction, and they’re better decisions.”
Professional Services Firm, VIC
We intentionally keep the Board of Directors intake small to protect the quality of the room.
If you’d like to explore whether this is right for your stage of business, your next step is to book a private discovery call.
This is a no-pressure conversation to understand your goals and determine fit. If you already know this is the environment you need, you’re welcome to apply directly.
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You don’t have to build the next stage of your business alone.
Grow faster with the right people in the room.
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