The Future of Leadership

The world is changing. Here’s how leadership needs to change with it.

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Across the world, leadership turnover is at an all-time high and tenures at an all-time low. Clearly, the skills that have traditionally helped leaders ascend to the C-suite are no longer enough to help them stay there.

We set out everything you need to know about why leadership is evolving (and how), and the skills that will fuel success in a fast-changing world.

No Company Can Outperform Its Leadership

As such, how we identify and develop the right leaders, and how we facilitate their success as a team, has never been more important. For leaders to create the conditions for their organizations to thrive both today and in the future, we need to intentionally evolve our leadership approach to match the fast changing world around us.

Understanding and unlocking senior executive potential is paramount

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The critical skills leaders need in a fast-changing world

Heart, Smarts, and a Belly Full of Fire

What It Really Takes to Succeed in a Volatile World

Curiosity and Adaptability

Think Leaders Need All the Answers? Think Again

Drive and Resilience

Fight or Flight: The Leaders Who Emerge Stronger From Setbacks

Social intelligence

Walking the Stakeholder Tightrope: The Key to Effective Leadership

Systems thinking

Overcoming Decision Paralysis: Finding Order in Chaos

Organizations need to shift their approach to identifying, assessing and developing their leaders

Make future-ready leadership a reality

If organizations want to win in this complex and dynamic operating environment, they’ll need a radically different understanding of what it takes to succeed as a leader—and a radically different approach. Those that do this will run circles around those that can’t—or won’t.

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How we assess and develop future-ready leaders

Our Leadership Portrait approach to executive assessment and development offers a multi-dimensional view of CEO’s and CxOs readiness for leadership roles—and their potential to thrive in a dynamic business environment.

Leadership Portrait not only allows us to identify senior leaders who are able to grow, evolve and succeed; it also provides a roadmap for cultivating these critical skills in others, fostering a culture of continuous growth and agility throughout your organization.

	Reduce the risk of hiring decisions Use Leadership Portrait to discover leaders who are equipped to thrive in a dynamic environment and make better, more confident leadership decisions.

	Improve the odds of success of sitting executives We help your senior leaders develop future-ready leadership skills, so they can keep pace with a fast-changing world.

	Diversify your succession pipelines Backed by data, Leadership Portrait helps you look beyond the usual suspects to find leaders who'll drive organizational performance for decades to come.

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Meet our Executive Assessment and Development experts

Global executive assessment leader

Erin Zolna designs and oversees leadership programs that contribute to effective CEO succession planning, M&A talent integration, hiring decisions, executive team benchmarking and leadership development.

Global executive development leader

David Lange has more than 25 years of experience of global executive development, cultural transformation, and management consulting. He focuses primarily on designing and delivering coaching and facilitation programs to CEOs and their teams.