Boards as a Service (BaaS)
Why is Boards as a Service (BaaS) relevant to your business?
Boards and executive teams are navigating a world of exponential disruption. AI, data, talent, trust, and ethics are reshaping governance, strategy, and culture faster than traditional playbooks can adapt. Yet most boards are still operating with yesterday’s assumptions. The future belongs to Future Boards that can anticipate change, adapt mindsets, and drive transformation at speed.
BaaS is a unique program designed for boards, CEOs, and senior executives. It provides a retainer-based advisory ecosystem that combines world-class expertise, practical tools, and tailored transformation journeys. The goal is to ensure boards are not only prepared for disruption, but positioned to create 10X opportunities in the digital and AI-driven era.
What We Do
We equip boards and executive teams to lead from the future, combining governance, trust, and transformation with actionable insights.
- Diverse Ecosystem of Experts & Partners: Access global thought leaders in AI, governance, talent, ethics, and transformation.
- Board Briefings & Advisory: Targeted sessions for strategic decision-making, future readiness, and mindset shifts.
- AI, Data & Talent Readiness: Audits, health checks, and monetization pathways in partnership with Open Insights.
- Content & Capabilities Platform: Keynotes, masterclasses, youth advisory boards, and learning resources to inspire change.
- Understand critical megatrends reshaping governance, talent, and risk.
- Gain future-focused insights into AI, trust, and exponential dynamics.
- Equip leadership with new models to transition from PresentCo → TechCo → AICo.
- Learn how to transform disruption into 10X value creation.
- Build resilient, adaptive governance frameworks.
- Enhance trust, transparency, and board credibility.
- Leverage data and AI for exponential growth and efficiency.
- Access a network of global experts, diagnostics, and advisory platforms.
The Outcomes
For Boards & Executives:
For Organizations:
Why Join?
What got traditional boards here will not get them anywhere to the future. Boards as a Service (BaaS) ensures your organization does not just survive disruption, it thrives by embracing the tools, mindsets, and ecosystems of the future.
Customized Advisory | Global Experts | Practical Frameworks | Future-Focused Strategies | Continuous Support
Is your board ready to transform and lead from the future?
Tariq's Current & Previous Board & Advisory Roles Include:
Why TariQ?
TariQ is a Harvard alumni who started his career back in 1987 as a lowly customer support executive. He grew through the ranks and worked his way up and built an an illustrious background working with top organizations like Dow Jones Markets, The Times & Sunday Times and more recently Bloomberg Media. He has helped organizations go from half a million a year to $100 million a year and lead organizations with revenues of greater than $350 million, working across global markets. He’s a focused business leader, a disruptive thinker and has this unique ability to create breakthroughs in organizations. Some of his achievements are:
- Regional Director for a $350/year business with 1000+ employees for Dow Jones Markets. Worked across Europe, Middle East, Africa, with strong links with US.
- Brought The Times & Sunday Times into the Middle East in 2007, as Publisher and launch CEO & against all odds got the business to break –even within 24 months. Had to disrupt the traditional business model to achieve this.
- He leads the content curation and events mandate at Harvard Business Schools Club in GCC
- Is a regular speaker at KPMG Global & Asia Pacific, Roland Berger Consultants as a “Future expert” and many others.
- Has worked with top brands like Petrochem, Emirates, DP World, Telenor, BAYT, HSBC, Emaaar, ENBD, and many others.
