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Developing the Next Generation of Leaders in Family Businesses
For many family-owned businesses, the conversation around succession often starts and ends with timing: When should the next generation step in? How soon should they take on real operational responsibility? What roles should they hold along the way? But timing is...
Adjusting the Dials: The New Discipline of CEO Leadership
For a long time, the image of great corporate leadership was built around big, decisive moves: entering a bold new market, pulling off a game-changing acquisition, or driving a sweeping transformation program. Those were the stories that got told. Today’s reality...
Managing Risk in Consumer Energy: A Leadership Imperative
Consumer-facing energy companies operate in one of the most demanding risk landscapes anywhere. Unlike upstream producers focused mainly on exploration and extraction, utilities, retailers, and providers serving households and businesses sit right at the crossroads of...
Adaptive Culture: The Hidden Infrastructure of Transformation
Most transformation programs put their energy into strategy, operating models, and technology. Culture usually comes later— if it comes at all — through town halls, leadership offsites, or freshly worded value statements. Yet when we look across the organizations we...
Rethinking Director Effectiveness in an Age of Permanent Disruption
Board effectiveness used to follow a steady rhythm. Quarterly reviews, annual strategy sessions, periodic succession talks—all structured and predictable. That cadence no longer fits today's world. With rapid technological change, geopolitical tensions, market...
Rewiring Financial Services for AI: Leadership, Operating Models, and Power Shifts
Financial services firms are pouring resources into AI. New applications keep appearing, pilots get launched, and innovation labs grow. But in the boardrooms and executive teams we advise, a tougher reality often surfaces: AI transformation isn't getting stuck due to...
Energy : What Will Define the Next Gen of Industry Leaders?
For decades, leadership in energy and utilities was defined by scale, operational discipline, and capital intensity. The winning formula : control assets, optimise costs, manage regulation, and deliver stable returns. That equation has now changed. Across the boards...
Why Most C-Level Successions Fail Before They Start
From “Replacement” to “Continuity of Power”. In many boards, C-level succession is still treated as a rare event: a resignation, a crisis, a search, a shortlist, a decision. But what we keep seeing with clients is that succession has become something else: a...
Redistribution of Power in Automotive Distribution
Why leadership in the sector is no longer defined by scale alone. For decades, automotive distribution operated within a relatively stable balance of power. Manufacturers controlled product and brand. Distributors controlled territory, customer interface, and local...