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Insights · March 2024

The Director’s Dilemma – March 2024 Edition

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...

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Insights · February 2024

Governance is crucial for family-owned businesses in rapidly changing environments: Extracts from Sorin Popa’s Interview

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,...

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Insights · February 2024

The Company We Keep: Regina Graf

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....

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Insights · February 2024

Ask Alto: Trends transforming workplaces in 2024: how ready are you?

“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...

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News · February 2024

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

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...

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Insights · February 2024

Succession planning in family-owned business takes trust and time: Extracts from Corinne Klajda’s Interview

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...

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Insights · February 2024

The Company We Keep: Petter Fafalios

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...

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Insights · February 2024

From implementation to custodianship in family-owned businesses: Extracts from Sonal Agrawal and Toral Patel’s Interview

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...

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Insights · February 2024

Executive Search Review: 2024 Hunt Scanlon Canadian Executive Recruiting Special Issue

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,...

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Insights · February 2024

Long and respected history of family-owned businesses: Extracts from Carol Leonard’s Interview

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...

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Insights · February 2024

Managing family-owned businesses in challenging times: Extracts from Ricardo Bäcker’s Interview

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...

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Insights · February 2024

The Company We Keep: Sonal Agrawal

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...

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