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Beyond Dealmaking: Unlocking Value in PE Portfolios with Governance, Executive Assessment, and AI

Actionable recommendations for private equity firms seeking to enhance board effectiveness and executive leadership within their portfolios.

Succession Planning Challenges: Family Pitfalls to Avoid

Learn how family businesses can overcome succession planning challenges by building stronger leadership pipelines and navigating emotional and organizational hurdles.

Why Kindness Is One of the Most Underrated Leadership Traits

Powerful, authoritative, tenacious - all traits our society has come to associate with leaders. But what about kindness?

The New Mandate for Chief Sustainability Officers: Lead Through Global Disruption with Resilience and Vision

In today’s rapidly shifting global landscape where a complex web of geopolitical tensions, rising protectionism, and escalating trade disputes are intertwined, sustainability leadership has entered a new era—one that demands agility, influence and operational depth.

How The Home Depot Built—and Sustains—a Culture of Empathetic Leadership

After nearly 23 years at The Home Depot, Tim Hourigan will retire as Executive Vice President – Human Resources on June 14, 2025. Under his leadership, the world’s largest home improvement retailer with nearly 475,000 orange-blooded associates and more than 2,300 stores across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico has operated on a simple but powerful principle: lead with empathy.

How CSOs Are Shaping a New Era of Impact in Latin America

The work of Chief Sustainability Officers in Latin America is deeply reshaping business strategy. Discover how the function is becoming central to business resilience and growth.

Seeing Clearly: Aligning Perceptions and Reality in Family Business Governance

In Family Business, where perception often shapes reality, recognizing misalignments is key to effective leadership. Discover how.

Powering the Future: New Leadership Needs for a Changing Utilities Sector

Utilities companies have been led through massive disruption due to several factors including the burgeoning demand to power AI data centers. As a result of accelerated demand, market forces are causing utilities to move from a slow-planned, regulated, rate-based environment to one of competition amongst IPPs and “behind the meter” solutions.

Building Sustainable Leadership for the Chemical Sector

Plastics circularity is becoming a game changer for the chemicals sector and being marketed as the optimal strategy for single-use plastics from huge brands like PepsiCo, Unilever and Colgate Palmolive.

Beyond the Org Chart: Michael O’Hare on Leading with Purpose

We sat down with O’Hare to explore how the role is evolving, how purpose can shape it, and where it’s headed next.

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