Thought Leadership related to CEO Search & Succession

CEO performance has been redefined by rising expectations and growing complexity. To show this transformation, Egon Zehnder profiled six exceptional CEOs who are working through these challenges.

For over 18 years, Egon Zehnder has been tracking boardroom diversity around the world. The 2022–2023 Global Board Diversity Tracker captures the progress that has been made in 44 countries.

In early-stage and higher-growth companies, nothing is more important than making the right bets on people.

Who follows the founder? The timing and choosing of this leader can be a tricky and often a highly emotional process. And it’s one that will have significant impact on the business world over the next two years as economic conditions unleash a wave of founder successions.

Who are Founders as leaders? We've recently engaged dozens of early-stage founders to exchange on this question and share our key insights.

CEOs and presidents share why a common language, ownership mindset, and culture of discontent contribute to this organizational structure’s success.

Egon Zehnder Chemical and Process Industries team answers frequently asked CEO succession questions on internal versus external hiring, sitting versus step-up CEOs, tenure and diversity

The future of work is flexible, but Latin American leaders have yet to strike the right balance between remote and in-person work benefits.

The CEO Insights Series shares our latest and best thinking on the most definitive topics affecting CEO leadership and performance today.

Though hard to execute, succession is best conceived as an ongoing, future-oriented progression that renews itself the day a new successor takes over.

A sizeable minority of CEOs—one in four of those who participated in our survey—say that sustainability is already a major driver of their decisions. In this article, we shine a spotlight on these CEOs at the vanguard of the transformation to sustainable business.

The upheaval of COVID-19 has caused many CEOs to reach a new level of self-awareness. As a result, most CEOs believe it is now essential to review their leadership style, according to Egon Zehnder research quoted in Italian daily newspaper Il Sole24 Ore.