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Women on Boards – Global Executive Search Consultants’ Perspectives: AltoPartners International Women’s Day 2025 Report
Women remain underrepresented in boardrooms globally, holding just 23.3% of board seats according to the 2024 Deloitte Women in the Boardroom report. This follows decades of work to increase the...
Read More → Insights · March 2025The Company We Keep: Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek
Dr Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek founded and co-manages AltoPartners Austria, where she specialises in filling board and top-management positions for global conglomerates as well as family-owned and...
Read More → Insights · March 2025The Director’s Dilemma – March 2025 Edition
Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Ranju Shergill, is the Managing...
Read More → Insights · February 2025Osprey Executive Search – Executive Talent: Go Placidly Amid the Noise and the Haste
This piece was first shared by Keith Labbett, Managing Partner Toronto in the latest edition of his Osprey Executive Search Executive Talent newsletter Go placidly amid the noise and the haste…...
Read More → News · February 2025Julia Scheffer Appointed to AESC’s 2025 Board of Directors
This press release was first posted on the AESC website. To read the original post, click here The global association representing the firms that place and advise the world’s leaders adds new...
Read More → News · February 2025Evermonte Executive Search (Brazil) Cements AltoPartners Dominance Across the Americas
AltoPartners Global Group S.L, the international partnership of independently owned executive search and leadership consulting firms, is proud to announce its partnership with Evermonte Executive...
Read More → Insights · February 2025Freedom 55?
This edition of the Ampersand blog was first published on the Humanis Calgary website. To access the original post click here In the latest edition of The Ampersand, our Calgary Partner Adam...
Read More → Insights · February 2025The Director’s Dilemma – February 2025 Edition
Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. This edition of the newsletter was first...
Read More → News · January 2025AltoPartners Expands into Sweden with Headlight International AB to Anchor Nordic Expansion
29 January 2025 – AltoPartners is thrilled to announce the addition of Headlight International AB, a premier executive search and leadership solutions firm based in Stockholm, to our global...
Read More → Insights · January 2025Ask Alto: What is strategic empathy, and why is it a key leadership skill in 2025?
In times of disruption, the “soft skill” of strategic empathy might be the most important thing a leadership team can cultivate. In late December 2024, OpenAI released a new artificial...
Read More → News · January 2025AESC Executive Talent Magazine: The Power of the Multigenerational Workforce
Following the publication of the AltoPartners Special Report : The Ageing Workforce : A dividend to be leveraged or an HR problem to be managed to coincide with UN’s International Day of Older...
Read More → Insights · January 2025Accelerating Gender Parity: Recommendations for Executive Search and Hiring
International Parity at Work Day is on January 11, 2025. It’s a global day of action for promoting equitable pay, regardless of a person’s race, country of origin, gender, or sexual orientation....
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