Succession planning is evolving from sporadic, reactive efforts to a continuous, data-driven process tightly aligned with business strategy. In today’s rapidly changing environment, leadership teams must regularly update their capabilities and ways of working to keep pace with disruption and rising expectations. The most successful organizations embed this approach throughout all levels, dynamically aligning talent, purpose, culture, and strategy. This enables them to build agile, future-ready leadership teams that can adapt quickly and drive lasting value.
How data can improve every aspect of executive leadership development and succession planning
Companies assess their executives about once a year. Most make far less use of this objective, independent data about their leaders than they could. Some, however, are using it to build a competitive edge.
The Agilist mindset: How leaders are putting agility to work to thrive in volatile times
Leaders’ agility can have a multiplier effect across their organizations. Here’s how some are putting it to work.
How functional leaders are using AI—and barriers to progress
Usage of AI is growing across functions—but most leaders want to move even faster.
Garry Ridge shares how leaders can embrace a culture of learning, purpose, and coaching to drive both personal growth and business success.
This interactive dashboard includes data on sitting CEOs at the largest companies in 27 markets around the world, along with data on new appointments and trends.
Human resources leaders are at the center of the AI capability gap, responsible for both managing the workforce’s adoption of AI and upskilling themselves and their function. Our work and discussions with seven HR leaders highlight three leadership essentials that can help their peers unlock their AI potential.
Stendert Krommendam shares the leadership qualities he believes are critical for balancing performance, purpose, and sustainability.
Mitja Schulz, the newly appointed CEO of Debrunner Koenig, describes his leadership style and discusses how he thinks about developing leaders who excel in collaboration, staying agile, and being goal oriented.
We are all different: CEOs, board chairs, and other leaders can ignore it, or dive into it. Leaders have to choose.
Heidrick & Struggles’ Kathryn Bardi, Christina Cary, and Sean McLean sit down to talk about neurodiversity in the context of inclusive leadership—what it is and what it means for leaders and the workplace.
Companies are spending more on leadership development even as they are cutting costs in other areas. But it is becoming increasingly critical for them to understand the return on their investments. Taking a fresh perspective on five keys to success provides a practical path forward.