Our Industrial Practice provides Executive Search, Board Consulting, CEO Succession and Leadership Strategy services. We are the largest U.S. Industry Practice Group, spanning eight major sectors:
Demonstrated Strengths
Egon Zehnder International earns more than 1,000 industrial client assignments per year. Top U.S. industrial firms turn to us for:
Deep industry knowledge
Before entering executive search, all of our consultants made their marks as industrial executives. They are “insiders” who maintain strong networks and stay closely attuned to industry trends. Most hold an engineering or technical degree, plus a Masters degree in business. We speak your language, and we move confidently through your world.
Rapid response
We feel your urgency. Our consultants will go the extra mile to advance assignments in a timely fashion, without compromising quality. A particular point of pride … we successfully complete many assignments that other firms failed to execute.
Personal connection
We apply the most advanced analytical tools of the trade, but we don’t stop there. Our consultants are equally skilled at connecting with candidates on a personal level. By exploring people’s individual aspirations and discerning their distinctive human qualities, we can effectively place talented individuals in work environments where they will thrive.
Sustained value
We place executives who are likely to fulfill the desired tenure with your company, and who will create superior business value.
Executive Search
Each year, Egon Zehnder International places nearly 2,000 executives around the world. We begin by working intensively with you to understand your strategic contexts. We study your evolving business situation and corporate culture, so we can identify candidates prepared to meet your anticipated challenges and mesh with your established ways of working.
To make each search tangible and precise, we pinpoint the unique set of competencies you require and identify the specific, observable behaviors indicating that candidates command those competencies. To accelerate competency identification, we:
- Reference core competencies, relevant to your industry, identified by Egon Zehnder International through more than four decades of research and practice
- Tailor and focus these core competencies, per your stated requirements, to guide our rigorous identification and evaluation of candidates
- Present to you only candidates who objectively qualify for your position.
Board Consulting
We have extensive experience leading searches for outside directors who meet the unique and evolving requirements of a range of industrial company boards, from private equity to Fortune 500. Industrial boards represent over 25% of our director placements each year. We also help industrial sector boards move away from the more traditional role of oversight to that of tangibly contributing to competitive advantage. Egon Zehnder International offers deep expertise in board structure and proven methodologies for optimizing board performance.
More information about Board Consulting can be found on our website, including our contact person (Sanjay Gupta, Dallas).
CEO Succession
Egon Zehnder International helps companies to thoroughly prepare for an orderly and successful CEO transition. We assist our industrial clients through the entire process from long-term succession planning, through the selection process and CEO integration. Our CEO Succession planning services include: appraisal of the current CEO against the future needs of the organization, internal successor candidate assessments against the CEO competencies, external talent maps to compare internal candidates against leaders outside the organization, and recruitment and integration.
More information about CEO Succession can be found on our website, including our contact person (Sanjay Gupta, Dallas).
Leadership Strategy Services
Our Leadership Strategy Services bring you a range of proven capabilities for unleashing the potential of your leadership talent, now and in the future. We’ll help you identify, evaluate, develop and retain outstanding leaders who deliver consistently superior performance as they rise through successive levels of responsibility. All Egon Zehnder Industrial consultants are prepared to partner with you to deliver Leadership Strategy Services.
More information about Leadership Strategy Services can be found on our website, including our contact people (Michael Portland, Chicago and Carol SingletonSlade, Houston).
Management Appraisal
A rigorous, fact-based process to evaluate leadership capabilities, our Management Appraisal assesses your organization’s human capital with an unparalleled level of precision and reliability. We key appraisals to scaled executive competencies based on decades of intensive research as well as on our global experience assessing executives. The competencies, standards and procedures we apply are tailored to your industry, company and executives, yet our framework enables you to benchmark performance and potential against relevant, comparable positions around the world.
Leadership Development
Egon Zehnder Industrial will work with your executives to articulate distinctly individual, robust leadership development plans — plans that they will “own.” Key steps in the process include articulating the executive’s unique personal brand, prioritizing development opportunities, selecting the most potent development approaches and scheduling specific, realistic actions.
Team Effectiveness Review
Our competency-based Team Effectiveness Review provides the insights and data you need to measurably and sustainably raise the performance of your leadership team as a whole to a new level. Egon Zehnder Industrial uses a 270° team dimension questionnaire as the starting point for team behavior interviews and carefully considered reference discussions, all of which are integrated into a summary of insights.
Succession Planning
Egon Zehnder Industrial’s expertise in Succession Planning provides you with a clear and objective view of which internal candidates are “ready now,” “ready soon,” and “ready in two years.” We then help you put processes in place to rapidly develop these candidates’ capabilities, and/or to identify and select external candidates of distinction.
Client-First Vision
Egon Zehnder International is uniquely structured to fulfill our client-first vision. Our entire firm operates as a single profit center. This both encourages and rewards collaboration. The Industrial Practice can work seamlessly with colleagues around the country or around the world to mobilize the resources, knowledge, and relationships needed to deliver extraordinary value to each client.
Functional Leadership
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