Media Center – 2024
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Diversified Search Group Celebrates Five Decades of Leadership Excellence with Nationwide Convenings and New Book Release
15 April | Top 10 executive search firm in the USA founded by industry icon Judith von Seldeneck. Exclusive member of AltoPartners in USA Diversified Search Group is proud to announce the celebration of its...
Celebrating National Marketing Operations Appreciation Day with AltoPartners Marketing Dream Team
15 April | This interview was first published on the Accord Group ECE website here. Building a strong team is essential for success. How do you cultivate an environment that fosters female leadership and...
AltoPartners Expands its Reach into Ireland
03 April | 3 April, 2024 – AltoPartners has named its first-ever partner firm in Ireland. After an exhaustive search, Dublin-based Cronin Partners International Search joined the global partnership on 1...
Fredrik Hillelson Awarded the 8th size in the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim for outstanding social contributions by H.M. The King of Sweden
23 February | Congratulations to Fredrik Hillelson, Founder of Novare Group, co-founder of Beredskapslyftet and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee member, on being awarded the 8th size in the ribbon of the...
Leaderland Spain Joins AltoPartners: AltoPartners Strategic Growth In Key Country
31 January | 31 January, 2024 – AltoPartners, a leading global partnership of renowned retained executive search and leadership consulting firms, is proud to announce that the AltoPartners partnership has...
Insights
The Company We Keep : Mpho Nkeli
18 April | Mpho Nkeli, Executive Chairperson & Head: Board Practice Search Partners International (SPi) Executive Search / AltoPartners South Africa, and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member...
The AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion : Mental health in the workplace in 2024 (and what leaders can do to foster it)
16 April | Mental health in the workplace is crucial for productivity and effectiveness. Supporting people in their struggles starts at the top. Eight out of ten employees globally feel at risk of burnout in...
The Future of Retail : Insights from the Global CXO Webinar
16 April | On Wednesday 10 April 2024, the AltoPartners Consumer, Luxury & Retail & Services practice group hosted an exclusive CxO webinar examining the future of retail, the current trends...
The Company We Keep : Kevin Hall
09 April | Kevin Hall Managing Partner of Bluestone Leadership Services / AltoPartners Canada; AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member; and co-head of the AltoPartners Global Natural Resources Practice...
The Director’s Dilemma – April 2024 Edition
02 April | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Albert Froom, is a Partner at...
The Maternity Gap : Extracts from “Unlocking The USD 172 trillion Gender Dividend” IWD 2024 Report
28 March | Across the world, it is almost always women and mothers who shoulder the responsibility for childcare. Even taking a break to have and raise a family has a significant impact on women’s earning...
Ask Alto: How can leaders encourage a growth mindset in the workplace?
26 March | At market close on January 13, 2024, Microsoft was the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. That position at the head of the business pack was not because of advanced algorithms or...
Gender equality and women’s participation in the workforce – (still!) a work in progress : Extracts from the AltoPartners International Women’s Day Report
21 March | As might be expected, progress towards gender equality across regions is mixed. Yet one theme emerged again and again in our survey of AltoPartners experts: much more can and should be done to...
Rethinking Leadership: It’s Time to Get Personal and Listen
14 March | By Jamie Garner, Head of Transformational Leadership with The Inzito Partnership / AltoPartners UK Gone are the days when a single blueprint for leadership excellence could be rolled out across...
International Women’s Day 2024 : Unlocking the USD 172 trillion gender dividend
12 March | Is it possible for International Women’s Day to be both a celebration of what we have achieved and also a call to action? Moving beyond platitudes and prose, our global experts at AltoPartners take...
The Company We Keep : Tracy Murdoch O’Such
05 March | Tracy Murdoch O’Such is the Global Managing Partner, Media, Entertainment, and Sports: Diversified Search / AltoPartners USA. Based in New York. From Waterford, Connecticut. Currently living in...
The Director’s Dilemma – March 2024 Edition
01 March | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Plácido Fajardo, is the...
Governance is crucial for family-owned businesses in rapidly changing environments : Extracts from Sorin Popa’s Interview
29 February | Corporate governance. That’s the key to succession planning in family-owned businesses in Romania, according to Sorin Popa, Managing Partner Accord Group Resurse Umane / AltoPartners Romania. Popa,...
The Company We Keep : Regina Graf
28 February | Regina Graf, Managing Partner and Owner, MPB Recruitment Group AG / AltoPartners Switzerland. WHERE WERE YOU BORN, AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW? I was born in Gidrostroitel near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan....
Ask Alto: Trends transforming workplaces in 2024: how ready are you?
27 February | “Sometimes it feels like we’re being punished for the freedom we had during the pandemic like our company wants to exert control pointedly. I feel they don’t trust me and that I’m being treated...
Succession planning in family-owned business takes trust and time : Extracts from Corinne Klajda’s Interview
22 February | Trust is the key factor in a successful leadership transition, says Corinne Klajda, Managing Partner Accord Polska / AltoPartners Poland. When the economy opened up after the fall of the Iron...
The Company We Keep : Petter Fafalios
21 February | Petter Fafalios is Equity Partner at Kingbird Executive Search and Country Manager for AltoPartners Norway. His main areas of focus include CxO and board member placements across leading industry...
From implementation to custodianship in family-owned businesses : Extracts from Sonal Agrawal and Toral Patel’s Interview
15 February | AltoPartners members in India Sonal Agrawal and Toral Patel have personal experience of family-owned businesses: they are the second-generation leadership of Accord India. Added to that, 70% of...
Executive Search Review : 2024 Hunt Scanlon Canadian Executive Recruiting Special Issue
12 February | Hunt Scanlon Media “Executive Search Review” has just released its 2024 Canadian Executive Recruiting Special Issue newsletter - Kevin Hall, Managing Partner AltoPartners Executive Search Canada,...
Long and respected history of family-owned businesses : Extracts from Carol Leonard’s Interview
12 February | Carol Leonard, Managing Partner The Inzito Partnership / AltoPartners UK, says there’s a long and respected history of family-owned businesses in the country. Over the course of that history, she...
Managing family-owned businesses in challenging times : Extracts from Ricardo Bäcker’s Interview
08 February | The Argentine economy is a mess. So says Ricardo Bäcker, whose firm in Argentina recently did a strategic exercise in which they acknowledged that the deterioration of the local economy had led to...
The Company We Keep : Sonal Agrawal
06 February | Have you ever considered the profound insight embedded in the phrase, ‘Tell me the company you keep, and I will tell you what you are’? This age-old adage suggests that our associations and the...
The AltoPartners Spotlight on Mining : Talent Strategies for an Industry in Transition 2024
05 February | The AltoPartners Spotlight on Mining : Talent Strategies for an Industry in Transition (February 2024)” - Download document The mining industry has long been considered to be a contributor to...
The Director’s Dilemma – February 2024 Edition
01 February | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, is...
Ask Alto : What are agile leadership principles and how can they help businesses cope with rapid change in 2024?
30 January | A month into 2024, there’s no doubt that it is going to be a challenging year. On the geopolitical front, 2024 will be a record-breaking year for elections. The World Economic Forum says more than...
Founders crucial to successful succession planning in family-owned businesses : Extracts from Joo-Lee Aw’s Interview
25 January | Many of Joo-Lee Aw’s clients as part of her work in the AltoPartners partnership comprise family-owned businesses, ranging from mid-sized companies to internationalised entities worth several...
Succession planning in family-owned businesses starts with culture : Extracts from Santiago Solis Arias’s interview
18 January | For Santiago Solis, the question of culture is all important in working with family-owned businesses. The AltoPartner’s member in Colombia has been part of two succession planning exercises - one...
Ask Alto : What is a micro-credential and should it be added to your CV?
16 January | From an evening workshop at the local high school to an internal corporate management workshop, almost everyone has taken part in a short-term learning experience at some point in their life. Some...
International Parity At Work Day 2024
11 January | Late in 2023, Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin became the third woman ever to receive the Nobel prize for economics. She was also the first woman to win it solo. Her revolutionary...
Taking the long view in family-owned businesses : Extracts from Albert Froom’s Interview
08 January | Albert Froom, who heads up AltoPartners’ family-owned businesses practice, says this about family-owned businesses: The first generation builds the company up The second generation builds it out...