The 20th Anniversary Special Edition of The Imperfect Board Member releases September 29! Preorder now.
Your blind spots are an opportunity.
What We Do
OrgHealth is a growth advisory firm. We work with CEOs, boards, and investors to identify any hidden organizational risks that block growth—and build the leadership capacity to scale.
The cause rarely sits where the symptom does. Our diagnostic gives you an honest, specific read on what's really driving what you're experiencing, starting with the four risks that most often go unseen. Seeing how your current situation maps against these growth patterns unlocks a whole new path forward.
The Four Hidden Risks
“As companies scale, complexity grows and the decisions get harder. The best boards help leaders see what they may be too close to see. The Imperfect Board Member is a practical guide to building a board that asks better questions, challenges assumptions, and spots risk early.”
THE ASCENT ASSESSMENT
Assess your executive team’s organizational health.
The Ascent Assessment helps surface hidden organizational risks that leadership teams often don’t see until they begin to constrain growth and execution. Each leader takes less than 10 minutes to complete the assessment, generating a team report that highlights areas of strength, differing perspectives, and potential vulnerabilities, illuminating what deserves attention now.
The Imperfect CEO
Jim’s 2026 leadership fable about organizational health instantly became a USA Today Bestseller, and has sparked The Imperfect Leader Movement globally.
The Imperfect Board Member
A bestseller and trusted resource now rereleased as a 20th anniversary special edition, guiding boards towards the seven disciplines of governance excellence.
“A deeply honest, highly practical, and distinctively human roadmap for leading companies through a changing, disruptive world.”
MEET THE FOUNDER
Personalized guidance for every step.
OrgHealth’s founder, Jim Brown, has spent 30 years in seats like yours, and through his best-sellers The Imperfect Board Member and The Imperfect CEO, he’s helped leaders see what’s actually happening inside their companies and do something about it.
OrgHealth’s team brings the same thing: not theory, but real experience from operating roles and boardrooms of their own. When you work with OrgHealth, you’re working with people who’ve carried the weight you’re carrying now.
Most leadership problems aren’t what they first appear to be.
That's why we never start with advice. Our process has three stages, and we don't skip any of them.
Diagnosis
We start by working to see clearly. Our proprietary and partner tools and our experts’ attunement to pattern recognition help us surface what others dismiss.
Sense-Making
The data means nothing until your team can see themselves in it. We create the shared understanding that makes change possible and durable.
Design
We help you build the plan—and then we stay. Through a custom, milestone-based roadmap, we're with you through implementation, not just the kickoff.
REAL PEOPLE SEEING REAL RESULTS
“Brown illuminates the relational disciplines that define the boards that succeed, and he does it with the clarity and practicality that leaders at every level need.
Hubert Joly
Harvard Business School; Former Chairman and CEO, Best Buy
“OrgHealth’s strength is in breaking down the silos that often exist unintentionally. This has made a tremendous difference in our team’s cohesion, effectiveness, and simply in time saved in the decision-making process.”
Steven Light
Executive Vice President, LeaderOne Financial Corporation
“There are some topics that leadership teams shy away from, especially when it comes to their own shortcomings. OrgHealth took us there, artfully let points hang for us to struggle with, then stepped in to guide us through. We couldn’t have done it without them.”
Brian Aalbers
Chief People & Governance Officer, Libro Credit Union
“The Imperfect Board Member diagnoses governance failure where it actually occurs—in the daily judgment calls directors make with each other and with management. I recommend it to directors at every stage.”
Barbara Stymiest
Former CEO, Toronto Stock Exchange; Former COO, Royal Bank of Canada
“Brown illuminates the relational disciplines that define the boards that succeed, and he does it with the clarity and practicality that leaders at every level need.”
Hubert Joly
Harvard Business School; Former Chairman and CEO, Best Buy
“OrgHealth’s strength is in breaking down the silos that often exist unintentionally. This has made a tremendous difference in our team’s cohesion, effectiveness, and simply in time saved in the decision-making process.”
Steven Light
Executive Vice President, LeaderOne Financial Corporation
“There are some topics that leadership teams shy away from, especially when it comes to their own shortcomings. OrgHealth took us there, artfully let points hang for us to struggle with, then stepped in to guide us through. We couldn’t have done it without them.”
Brian Aalbers
Chief People & Governance Officer, Libro Credit Union
“The Imperfect Board Member diagnoses governance failure where it actually occurs—in the daily judgment calls directors make with each other and with management. I recommend it to directors at every stage.”
Barbara Stymiest
Former CEO, Toronto Stock Exchange; Former COO, Royal Bank of Canada
