Leadership
Our Focus Areas
Leadership
Building strong foundations of future-ready leadership
From the board room to the C-suite, successful leaders embrace change and set the tone on vital issues that are paramount to an organization’s success. But fostering leadership as a capability requires commitment, and a willingness to apply new learning, which can open up new possibilities to unlock a leader’s full potential.
At Heidrick & Struggles, our advisory services help assess, develop, coach, and accelerate leaders, teams, and entire organizations. Applying our deep understanding of the behaviors and attributes of leaders across many of the world’s premier companies, we guide our clients as they build a thriving culture of future-ready leadership.
Heidrick Consulting brochure
Our dedicated team co-creates leadership journeys that best suit our clients’ specific challenges. Through a combination of proprietary tools and approaches, as well as market-leading techniques, we develop solutions that accelerate the realization of clients’ performance ambitions. In our brochure, learn about our consulting practice’s impact, methodology, and solutions.
Playbook
5 drivers of Employee Value Proposition for a future-proof workforce
What’s the best way to attract, develop, and retain the top next-generation leaders for your business? The Employee Value Proposition—or EVP—can be a critical differentiator. The EVP concept isn’t new, but it’s often misunderstood and not clearly defined. This playbook will help you think about and assess your EVP in terms of five key drivers: Purpose, Culture, Leadership, Development, and Total Rewards.
Leadership development
Show Up to Win: How to Land the Leadership Role You Want
In Show Up to Win, Kelly O. Kay and Jeff Sanders, partners at Heidrick & Struggles, lay out a practical playbook for senior leaders to land that top-level role and move into it effectively.
Leadership Assurance
Leadership development as material to value creation
Companies that align leadership planning with business strategy and take a continuous, data-driven, enterprise-wide approach are far more confident that they will always have the leaders they need to drive value.
Enabling a world better led
Using a combination of our agile approach, digital-first proprietary tools, and market-leading techniques, we help clients accelerate progress toward their ambitions with solutions that respond to the challenges of an ever-changing world.
How to Build effective teams
Lead Through Anything
Lead Through Anything focuses on a wide variety of skills, such as aligning people and energy to a common cause, building effective teams and helping them work together more selflessly, establishing positive confidence more often in oneself and others, increasing engagement and retaining top talent, and shaping a positive, impact-driven organizational culture.
See our Industry Expertise
Heidrick & Struggles serves clients across virtually every industry and sector.
Our assessments of leaders’ agility potential over the past year show that fewer than half are strong at any of these three traits
29%
Tenacity
10%
Curiosity
8%
Thinking Dexterity
Leadership Insights
Boards & Governance
Board Monitor US 2026 | Future-focused boards: Linking renewal, alignment, and performance
Fortune 500 boards have recently placed a larger focus operational expertise and prior board experience. Some boards are finding effective ways to balance short- and long-term considerations—and overseeing stronger performance than others.
How can we help?
Contact us to discuss the needs of your organization.