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Research · CEO succession
The handover that decides the next decade
Boards spend years planning a succession and minutes deciding it. Our latest study looks at what separates the transitions that hold from the ones that quietly unravel.
What 1,235 chief executives said about the pressure they are under
Capital discipline, talent scarcity and a technology bill that keeps arriving early.
See the findingsSpotting the leaders who will actually make AI work
Fluency matters less than judgement about where a machine should and should not decide.
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Board
The board conversations that never make it into the minutes
Where directors say the real disagreements surface, and why that matters for succession.
Technology
Hiring a technology leader when the strategy is still moving
A brief written for last year’s architecture will find you last year’s leader.
Culture
What a turnaround actually asks of the people who stay
Three chief executives on the eighteen months after the announcement.
Podcast
Leaders who changed their minds in public
A conversation about the cost and the credibility of reversing a decision.
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Where boards ask us to help
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Executive Search
Finding the person who fits the job as it will exist in three years, not as it was written.
02Board Advisory
Composition, effectiveness reviews and the chair transitions nobody wants to rush.
03CEO Succession
A multi-year process, run properly, so the decision is ready before it is needed.
04Leadership Assessment
Evidence about potential and readiness that holds up under a board’s questioning.
05Leadership Development
Coaching and team work for executives whose scope has just outgrown their habits.
06Culture & Transformation
Aligning how an organisation actually behaves with what it has promised the market.
Almost every leadership failure we are asked to fix was visible eighteen months earlier. The information existed. It just never reached the room where the decision was made.
Global lead, Board Advisory Practice