Digital Leadership

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Digital Leadership
Accelerating leadership capabilities to transform your organization for a digital world

Leadership in an ever-changing digital world requires embracing disruptive technologies to transform the way you work and deliver value with both your customers and your teams. To excel, leaders need a commitment to amplifying their own digital dexterity, as well as inspiring a culture of innovation and reinvention within their teams and organizations.

Heidrick & Struggles helps top talent accelerate their digital dexterity and readiness by identifying gaps in their own capabilities and guiding them toward new behaviors and mindsets to thrive in the digital age. Using customized data-driven leadership development, empowering function heads and CEOs alike to operate as digital strategists, innovators, and drivers equipped to thrive as future-ready leaders.

Chief Executive Officer

Route to the Top 2025: Explore global CEO backgrounds and trends

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.

What makes a good leader?
Only 9% of organizations believe their organizations have leaders with the skills needed to thrive in the digital economy."
The new leadership playbook for the digital age, MIT Sloan Management Review
Digital Dexterity Questionnaire

Evaluate the digital acumen of individual leaders within your organization

The Digital Dexterity Questionnaire (DDQ) evaluates how well leaders demonstrate and apply technology, a deep customer focus, and an experimental mindset in executing a business strategy

Featured Insights

CEO & Board of Directors

Digital readiness in Nordic boardrooms: The case for well-rounded digital acumen

The demand for digital savviness on Nordic boards is growing rapidly as technology continues to transform how business is done. Our latest analysis shows that Nordic companies are increasing their digital focus and range of competencies, but limited cybersecurity skills on the board could put organizations at risk.
Adrian Nagy
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Daniel Sjostrom
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Walter Swanljung
Leadership Development

Core leadership competencies needed in today's business landscape: A conversation with Mitja Schulz, CEO of Debrunner Koenig

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.
Peter Behncke
Supply Chain & Operations Officers

How AI is delivering value in an integrated supply chain: A conversation with James Borzi, EVP and chief supply chain officer at Baxter International

James Borzi shares how he sees AI continuing to optimize the healthcare supply chain; and what it means to him as a leader to lead in an AI-enabled world.
Fabrice Lebecq
AutoMobility

Driving efficiency: How Europe’s automotive CFOs are rising to new operational challenges

Europe’s automotive CFOs are evolving into enterprise leaders, driving innovation, efficiency, and sustainability amid rising operational and regulatory challenges.
Peter Pfaff
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