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My experience has been the consultancy industry is full of charlatans. The professionals need to be the key Club employees and board members. A president has to have the insight to see requirementsI think your view is naive. Consultants that conduct these reviews are experts at what they do. Their job is to ask questions to get feedback and insights and to learn what is really going on and to dig deep. Would you rather have a footy person asking these questions or someone who had spent their career conducting this type of review and evaluation and knows the best way to do it and has the experience of doing it thousands of times before? You don't need to know football to find out what issues exist and why, whether people lack clarity or are confused by things, whether there is belief and trust in people or process, whether there is inequality and bias, where there are conflicts and distrust.
Yes add football expertise at the right time as another layer to view things through but that's it. Anything more would actually be negligent.
You are correct though that quite often people in these roles know what the issues are or can see what's going on but lack the ability to influence change or get others on the same page. The magic of an independent review is that it is independent, that people get to contribute safely, and it is a collection of the shared themes and issues that is often indisputable. It is also the best way to get executive sponsorship and traction as there is no politics to it if done properly and gets everyone clear. Plus every person has their own bias, weaknesses and blind spots so what's not to say we don't have people who are ignorant of theirs? Teague seems like that around team defense. These weaknesses can have a significant impact on businesses or teams when they belong to senior positions as it permeates down and becomes culture. This is why there is an entire industry associated to this type of thing and why professionals will be called in.