Effective leadership teams are more crucial than ever in navigating today's complex business environments. Successful teams don’t just emerge; they are shaped intentionally through strategic alignment, mutual trust, and continuous improvement. Here are key questions to consider for building more effective leadership teams in your organisation.
Read MoreIn today’s fast-changing business environment, CEOs face an increasing array of challenges. From managing rapid technological advances to maintaining strategic focus amidst shifting market dynamics, the role of the CEO is more complex than ever. To succeed, the relationship between the CEO and the board must evolve into a collaborative partnership that helps navigate these challenges. Leadership today is not a static function, but an evolving skills set, requiring continuous adaptation. By aligning governance with executive leadership, organisations can more effectively confront leadership difficulties and drive sustained growth.
Read MoreIn today’s fast-changing business environment, CEOs face an increasing array of challenges. From managing rapid technological advances to maintaining strategic focus amidst shifting market dynamics, the role of the CEO is more complex than ever. To succeed, the relationship between the CEO and the board must evolve into a collaborative partnership that helps navigate these challenges. Leadership today is not a static function, but an evolving skills set, requiring continuous adaptation. By aligning governance with executive leadership, organisations can more effectively confront leadership difficulties and drive sustained growth.
Read MoreThe Nordic life sciences sector—renowned for its innovation and resilience—faces a distinct set of challenges in today’s volatile market. Mid-cap med-tech and medical device companies, in particular, are navigating a complex landscape shaped by global market fluctuations, regulatory changes, and shifting investor sentiment. The central question for boards and leadership teams is whether to embrace risk or adopt a more cautious "wait-and-see" strategy.
Read MoreIn today’s complex and rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of corporate boards has expanded dramatically. Beyond traditional governance and oversight, boards now serve as critical drivers of strategy, risk management, and long-term organisational resilience. To navigate this environment, boards must not only stay grounded in sound governance principles but also evolve continuously to meet the demands of an unpredictable future. The boardroom of both today and tomorrow requires agility, forward-thinking leadership, and an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
Read MoreIn the rapidly evolving landscape of modern work, cognitive skills are becoming increasingly paramount. As organisations navigate the complexities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterised by technological advancements and shifting job roles, the ability to assess and harness these skills is crucial. One effective strategy for achieving this is the integration of psychometric assessments into the recruitment process.
Read MoreInclusive leadership is key to driving innovation efforts in today’s workplace, ensuring sustainable growth and organisational competitive advantage. What is demanded of leaders today? What characterises inclusive leadership that unleashes the potential of a diverse workplace? And why is inclusion necessary for innovation?
Read MoreInclusive leadership is key to driving innovation efforts in today’s workplace, ensuring sustainable growth and organisational competitive advantage. What is demanded of leaders today? What characterises inclusive leadership that unleashes the potential of a diverse workplace? And why is inclusion necessary for innovation?
Read MoreThe measures of success within business have changed. Now, swathes of regulatory compliance, changing consumer demands, and caring for the planet are just several factors that increase the complexity of board work and dynamics. Boards today need to adapt in order to win. This article takes a brief view of the pressure points in today’s boardroom where business is more complex than it has ever been.
Read MoreThe complex challenges of our modern era demand leaders with the ability to balance the urgent with the essential, to navigate the intricacies of a rapidly evolving world. The pressing issues of today, such as climate change, global health crises, geopolitical instability and technological disruptions, necessitate leaders who can transcend short-term gains and envision solutions that resonate across generations. We hear these demands echoed not only within business life, but they also apply to our political leadership. So how can leaders strike this balance and build resilient organisations that can perhaps even come out stronger than before?
Read MoreThe perception that board fees are increasingly disconnected from the growing workload and expanding responsibilities complicates the essential broadening of the recruitment base to corporate boards. This misalignment poses a growing risk to the competitiveness of the business sector. Consequently, it is imperative that company owners adjust compensation structures to keep pace.
Read MoreIn our ever-changing business landscape with increasing tech disruption, we require our leaders to become something quite extraordinary. Individuals who can navigate volatility, harness resilience, foster agility and integrate the paradoxes we are facing. What is needed of leaders, to be successful in all this uncertainty?
Read MoreDisruptive times call for transformational leaders who can navigate the turbulent waters of polarising times. We are living in a time of growing division and uncertainty and need our leaders to be beacons of guidance, stability, and vision. Based on the many dialogues we have with senior leaders, below we explore some of the key leadership qualities and strategies that we often find in those most successful and effective leaders.
Read MoreThe Covid-19 pandemic was an extraordinary challenge for the aviation industry. The industry suffered 18 months of only being able to carry out a fraction of its normal business activities. However, now the green shoots of recovery are beginning to show, and our colleague Hans Nilsson, Country Manager for Alumni Norway takes a look at the particular challenges that the industry leadership faces as the sector starts to take off again.
Read MoreWorldwide, healthcare organisations are grappling with a number of areas across a wide range of jurisdictions. From an ageing population to rising healthcare costs and issues related to increased mental health the challenges remain quite similar.
One challenge and perhaps the biggest, relates to the healthcare workforce. Alongside recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the global fight for talent remains the most challenging issue internationally for healthcare leaders. What needs to change and how can the global fight for talent in healthcare be addressed?
Read MoreWhat is the business potential in some of the new tendencies within executive search and how can organisations make the most of a broader pool of C-suite and board level candidates? An increasingly international approach to organisational structure and executive search provides great opportunities to level-up leadership capabilities, enabling us to look for leadership in a much broader scope.
Read MoreIn times of great uncertainty, it is often our human instinct to find comfort by thinking and acting on our own, focusing more on the things we can control. The current turmoil in the business climate call for people to do the precise opposite – what we need more than ever is collaboration. What are the psychological reactions that cause us to retreat in this way and how can leaders go about encouraging collaboration across their organisation?
Read MoreIn this article Jill Lockett, Strategic Advisor at Alumni Global discusses the issues of resilience within sustainable leadership and how we best support leaders within Life Sciences in today’s turbulent business climate and going forward. Looking at resilience through two different perspectives we have listened to individuals in our network and across our own business community, about the models of joint working and partnership that have actively supported sustainable leadership and built resilience in their teams.
Read MoreRapid technology development leading to the uprise of new skillsets and occupational shifts will demand from us all a capacity to adapt and navigate the labour market in new ways. For anyone considering a career change within the near future, the current business climate and narrative can be daunting. Below we outline some advice to help inform your career choices and reflect on our role as executive search recruiters, to aid you in reaching your professional goals.
Read MoreWith increasing complexity and challenging times ahead, the need for good leadership in our societies is becoming more pressing. At the same time, concerns are being raised about the profiles of those leaders in power and in positions of authority. It is worrying that so many senior level placements are still affected by gender, ethnicity, age and geographical location. Acting behind the scenes of top executive placements, are often executive search firms. Executive search firms are in a prime position to take larger responsibility for helping to ensure executive placements that better represent the interest of their organisation’s entire community. As the market for C-level and senior leadership profiles is rapidly evolving, can the executive search industry keep up?
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