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A monthly series representing our latest and best thinking on the most definitive topics affecting CEO leadership and performance.

Volumes 1-10

Volume 1: New Captains of Consciousness

Volume 1: New Captains of Consciousness

Infusing CEO leadership with social responsibility and accountability: Edelman reports that people are shifting their trust to relationships they feel they can influence, above… Read more

Volume 2: Supporting CEO Leadership

Volume 2: Supporting CEO Leadership

“We simply can’t learn to be more vulnerable and courageous on our own. Sometimes our first and greatest dare is asking for support.” Read more

Volume 3: Leading a Collaborative Enterprise

Volume 3: Leading a Collaborative Enterprise

CEO leadership is, by its very nature, a collective and relational endeavor. Still, we often speak of CEOs as if they are forces unto… Read more

Volume 4: The Uncharted Leadership Voyage

Volume 4: The Uncharted Leadership Voyage

The CEO turnover rate is at a record high and appears to be accelerating. How can we better prepare CEOs for today’s reality, where… Read more

Volume 5: The Boardroom as Leadership Laboratory

Volume 5: The Boardroom as Leadership Laboratory

CEOs struggle with developing their leadership teams; boardrooms are living labs for leadership experimentation. Why CEOs should expose their senior executives to board work… Read more

Volume 6: Cultivating Inquisitive Leadership

Volume 6: Cultivating Inquisitive Leadership

Curious, bold leadership is not something you simply have or don’t have; you build upon what is there, you learn it and continue to… Read more

Volume 7: CEOs and Stakeholder Capitalism

Volume 7: CEOs and Stakeholder Capitalism

As business purpose becomes a top priority for stakeholders, CEOs must rethink how they lead. Read more

Volume 8: Demystifying Courageous Leadership

Volume 8: Demystifying Courageous Leadership

Cultivating courage is about engaging the whole leader to serve the whole business. Read more

Volume 9: In the Eye of the Storm

Volume 9: In the Eye of the Storm

Five tips for CEOs while they work to manage the business and create psychological and emotional safety for their employees during the COVID-19 crisis. Read more

Volume 10: Towards Scenario Planning in the Uncertainty of a Global Crisis

Volume 10: Towards Scenario Planning in the Uncertainty of a Global Crisis

After weeks of being immersed in immediate questions from COVID-19, CEOs are starting to tackle the challenge of preparing for what is next. Read more

Volumes 11-20

Volume 11: Embracing Uncertainty to Accelerate to a Brighter Future

Volume 11: Embracing Uncertainty to Accelerate to a Brighter Future

All over the world, we are hearing CEOs ask the same question: What is the best way to lead and move forward when we… Read more

Volume 12: The Road Ahead for CEOs: Shifting Identity to Enable Change

Volume 12: The Road Ahead for CEOs: Shifting Identity to Enable Change

CEOs have stepped up like never before to do their part in accelerating the movement for justice and reconciliation forward. Read more

Volume 13: A Rising Tide: Creating Inclusive Systems of Leadership Selection

Volume 13: A Rising Tide: Creating Inclusive Systems of Leadership Selection

Since the U.S. erupted in racial protests, many CEOs have taken a public stand against systemic racism, pledging to help dismantle it. Read more

Volume 14: The Advancing Impact of CEO Engagement

Volume 14: The Advancing Impact of CEO Engagement

There is extensive speculation about the impact that leading through COVID-19 will have on the future of the CEO position. Have the past five… Read more

Volume 15: The Practice and Impact of Positive Leadership

Volume 15: The Practice and Impact of Positive Leadership

Principled, positive leadership is magnetic and indelible. It is what 2020 is calling for. Read more

Volume 16: Leveraging New Possibilities from Old Polarities

Volume 16: Leveraging New Possibilities from Old Polarities

Leaders today need to better manage polarities - but what are those polarities, and how do you reconcile them? Read more

Volume 17: CEO Leadership for a New Future

Volume 17: CEO Leadership for a New Future

The CEOs who seem to adjust best remain cognizant that “what got you here, won’t get you there.” Read more

Volume 18: Creating CEO Allyship for LGBTQ+ Inclusion

Volume 18: Creating CEO Allyship for LGBTQ+ Inclusion

The rewards of allying with the LGBTQ+ cause are great and many. In fact, increasingly, leaders seem to have more to lose—loyal customers, top… Read more

Volume 19: Revitalizing CEO Leadership

Volume 19: Revitalizing CEO Leadership

This is a promising moment in time for CEOs to consider how they want to show up as leaders, to listen for and look… Read more

Volume 20: Prioritizing People

Volume 20: Prioritizing People

CEOs are depending on their CHROs, asking: What else can we do to have a positive impact on employees and make a difference now… Read more

Volumes 21-30

Volume 21: Creating New Pathways to Success

Volume 21: Creating New Pathways to Success

Five steps that take leaders through the process of devising options or alternative pathways to reach performance goals. Read more

Volume 22: Featuring “CEOs: Architects of Prosperity”

Volume 22: Featuring “CEOs: Architects of Prosperity”

Our new series, “CEOs: Architects of Prosperity,” has been created to highlight the expanding expectations for CEOs across a wide range of issues affecting… Read more

Volume 23: Balancing Acts: One Leader’s Approach Through Uncertainty

Volume 23: Balancing Acts: One Leader’s Approach Through Uncertainty

A lot of ink has been spilled around how to lead businesses through mounting complexity and uncertainty, but much of what might have been… Read more

Volume 24: Creating the Space Complexity Demands: New Approaches for CEO Leaders

Volume 24: Creating the Space Complexity Demands: New Approaches for CEO Leaders

Those who engage mindfully to unlock what Jennifer Garvey Berger calls “mindtraps” – such as the tendency toward over-simplified stories, the need to be… Read more

Volume 25: Spanning the Realities of the CEO Role

Volume 25: Spanning the Realities of the CEO Role

CEOs are straddling two realities—one they are familiar with based on older metrics and the other reliant upon evolving expectations. Read more

Volume 26: Leaders' Most Vital Asset

Volume 26: Leaders' Most Vital Asset

It is, above all, the trust a leader builds with others and how they create those connections that define truly great leadership. Read more

Volume 27: Reconnecting and Reinventing Over Resigning

Volume 27: Reconnecting and Reinventing Over Resigning

Moving through the Great Resignation, CEOs can build connections and foster transformation by evolving and adapting themselves. Read more

Volume 28: Beyond Answers: Emerging CEO Leadership

Volume 28: Beyond Answers: Emerging CEO Leadership

A panel of Egon Zehnder practice group leaders discuss how CEOs can transform, relate, and hone their leadership skills in today’s environment. Read more

Volume 29: Tapping into Founder Prowess

Volume 29: Tapping into Founder Prowess

For future transformation, CEOs can take a cue from Founders for powerful examples of organizational creation and reinvention. Read more

Volume 30: Out of the Fire and on the Rise: Female CEOs Reflect

Volume 30: Out of the Fire and on the Rise: Female CEOs Reflect

100 Female CEOs globally share their reflections on challenges and opportunities they have encountered leading their organizations recently. Read more

Volumes 31-40

Volume 32: Pulling Back the Covers: Leading Authentically to Create Inclusive Organizations

Volume 32: Pulling Back the Covers: Leading Authentically to Create Inclusive Organizations

By providing their own examples of courage and difference, leaders have the ability to unlock vibrant, thriving cultures of inclusivity and reduce covering. Read more

Volume 33: Lighting Fires: How CEOs Will Lead Technological Transformation

Volume 33: Lighting Fires: How CEOs Will Lead Technological Transformation

Companies are ramping up sizable technology investments, however leading digital transformation is more about the people than the tech. Read more

Volume 34: Tackling Any Crisis by Unleashing the Power of our Organizations

Volume 34: Tackling Any Crisis by Unleashing the Power of our Organizations

Leaders everywhere are grappling with very big and contentious issues around critical choices of where, how, and when people will now work. Read more

Volume 35: Family Business CEOs Look Ahead

Volume 35: Family Business CEOs Look Ahead

The frequent disruptions of the past few years have weighed on long-term planning in family businesses. Here’s how the best leaders are adapting. Read more

Volume 36: Grounding Your Leadership in Real Time

Volume 36: Grounding Your Leadership in Real Time

Leaders no longer have a moment to waste with the sensory and data overload we are facing and the many divergent voices surrounding us. Read more

Volume 37: Expanding Pathways to CEO Leadership - Emergence of Product Leaders

Volume 37: Expanding Pathways to CEO Leadership - Emergence of Product Leaders

Increasingly, several Product leaders have become CEOs. Leaders holding that magic mix of advanced technology experience with an agile Product mindset. Read more

Volume 38: Be Real - The Renewed Focus on Authentic Leadership

Volume 38: Be Real - The Renewed Focus on Authentic Leadership

What we are hearing from leaders and workers of every generation is that there is a renewed commitment for authentic leadership afoot. Read more

Volume 39: CEOs and the Next Frontier - Initiating the Generative AI Journey

Volume 39: CEOs and the Next Frontier - Initiating the Generative AI Journey

With the frenzy of news and heightened attention around generative AI, perhaps no group has been thrust more into the spotlight than CEOs. Read more

Volume 40: Shoring Up for the Balcony Moments - A Summer Reading List

Volume 40: Shoring Up for the Balcony Moments - A Summer Reading List

We spoke with colleagues, family and friends to curate a summer reading list that promises inspiration to refuel the tank for CEO's demanding lives. Read more

Volumes 41-50

Volume 41: Reaffirming the Business Case for DEI in a Post-Affirmative Action World

Volume 41: Reaffirming the Business Case for DEI in a Post-Affirmative Action World

The commitment to inclusion, equity and diversity in businesses can – and should – stay on course. Read more

The Egon Zehnder CEO Insights Series

We are excited to share our new monthly series, Egon Zehnder CEO Insights, representing our latest and best thinking on the most definitive topics affecting CEO leadership and performance. For over 50 years, Egon Zehnder has been advising clients across the world on all aspects of chief executive leadership, succession and professional development. Over the past five years alone, our global CEO Advisory Group has applied its own future-oriented, proprietary approach to help guide 1,800 CEO mandates. We are deeply familiar with the uniqueness and singular importance of the CEO role, especially in today’s atmosphere of extreme complexity and volatility. Egon Zehnder CEO Insights is our new effort to communicate that experience and collective learning broadly as part of our ongoing mission to help bring positive change to the world through truly great, inspired leadership.

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