Climate risk management – updated expectations from the PRA
ArticlePRA’s SS5/25 sets clear rules for climate risk governance, scenario analysis, and data standards, guiding UK firms to embed climate risk into core decisions.
Dynamic governance and board-effectiveness reviews that support organisations unlock value.
In today’s complex and fast-evolving business landscape, boards are expected to do more than provide oversight — they must drive strategic value, foster innovation, and uphold stakeholder trust. Our governance advisory services aim to empower boards and executive teams to lead with confidence, clarity, and purpose. We bring deep experience in supporting boards and executive teams to design the frameworks, processes, and leadership dynamics that drive long-term value for stakeholders.
Our approach integrates governance, capital markets, and risk expertise with leadership development insights and comprehensive proprietary datasets. This unique combination enables us to help you shape the systems, behaviours, and culture that underpin high-performing teams and organisations.
We focus on enabling effective decision making by:
- aligning board and leadership structures with strategic goals
- enhancing team dynamics, feedback loops, and accountability
- promoting a culture of performance, integrity, and adaptability
- supporting organisations to shift from risk-averse to risk-enable
- supporting stakeholder trust through transparent and resilient governance.
Effective decision-making design
Designing agile, resilient governance frameworks
We help shape agile, resilient governance frameworks that support strategic delivery — whether you're navigating transformation, scaling operations, evolving culture, or responding to regulatory shifts.
Benchmarking and best practice
Clarity through comparison
Our evidence-based insights provide clarity through comparison. With one of the most comprehensive governance databases which captures the applied practices of the listed market, we help you understand how your governance stacks up against peers and regulatory expectations, identify strengths, and address gaps.
Board performance and effectiveness reviews
Unlocking the full potential of your board
Our accredited evaluations assess how your board leads, decides, and assures — and how it can evolve to meet future challenges. Confidential interviews, document reviews, and meeting observations, underpinned by proprietary datasets and methodology, deliver actionable insights and development plans tailored to your board’s context.
Aligned with the CGI ’s Code of Practice for board reviewers, we bring an independent perspective while remaining objective and mitigating conflicts related to our work.
Read how we comply with the Code of Practice
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Governance expertise
We design good governance through fresh thinking and experience within the team which spans working with a variety of capital structures and sectors both in the UK and internationally.
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Evidence-backed decision making
Providing examples, benchmarking trends, best practice and peer reviews
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Impact delivered
We have the largest UK best-practice database tracking over 90,000 data points relating to the Corporate Governance Code on an annual basis.
Why Grant Thornton
Our governance advisory team has a wealth of experience reviewing governance and boards with a diverse range of capital structures. We bring our board governance and stakeholder relations teams together with executive coaches and leadership development specialists. Our team are senior, board-credible professionals with more than twenty years’ experience.
We aim to enable boards to remain agile, seize emerging opportunities, and mitigate evolving risks—ensuring they stay aligned with the strategic ambitions of the business.
Our experience of collaborating with boards at various stages of their strategic development, including times of substantial change or distress means our team can help you shape governance structures and decision-making processes to meet future challenges across our three service offerings:
- Benchmarking and best practice guidance
- Board performance evaluation and board development
- Governance restructuring and renewal
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