Media Center – 2019
News
Going Green – Accord India Lives The Ethos of Good Corporate Citizenship
31 October | In today’s global economy, corporate responsibility is more than just “a business imperative”… It is an absloute non-negotiable. Accord India, a founding member of AltoPartners, believe that being...
At Four Seasons, Diversified founder is on a $100 million roll
28 October | This column was first published on The Philadelphia Inquirer, to view the original piece click here “It’s wonderful to have the Four Seasons back,” said Judith von Seldeneck, founder of executive...
Victor Arias Joins Diversified Search : Seasoned search executive will co-lead Consumer & Retail Practice, serve as leader of firm’s new Dallas-Fort Worth office
09 October | Victor Arias, a leading national search executive in the area of Board of Directors and C-Suite diversity and inclusion, has joined Diversified Search as a Managing Director. He will be working in...
Novare Executive Search Places CEO at Saab
07 October | Stockholm-headquartered Novare Executive Search, the exclsuive member firm of AltoPartners in Sweden, has placed company insider Micael Johansson as the new president and CEO for Saab. Mr....
Osprey Executive Search Toronto Join AltoPartners: AltoPartners Boast Strong Northern American Presence
25 September | AltoPartners, the international alliance of boutique executive search and leadership consulting firms, proudly announces the expansion of its global footprint through the addition of Osprey...
Equation Partners Chile Announces Management Change – Nicolás Mora Schrader Becomes Managing Director
03 September | Equation Partners, a long-term member of the AltoPartners global alliance, is proud to announce that Nicolás Mora Schrader, a founding member of Equation Partners, has been named the new Managing...
Diversified Search Aquires Leading Healthcare Executive Search Firm Grant Cooper : Search firm’s second major acquisition in two months
24 July | PHILADELPHIA - Judith M. von Seldeneck, Founder and Chair of Diversified Search and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member, one of the top 10 executive search firms in the U.S, has...
The Director’s Dilemma – July 2019 Edition
04 July | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Kevin Hall, Managing Partner at...
Diversified Search Joins Forces with Koya Leadership Partners : Firm will become one of the largest executive search firms in the U.S.
12 June | PHILADELPHIA — Diversified Search, one of the leading executive search firms in the U.S., and Koya Leadership Partners, one of the nation’s top search firms in nonprofit and higher education, have...
Diversified Search’s “Lunches With Leaders” Announces Third Year Lineup : Famed presidential historian, Four Seasons President, pension fund chair headline series’ third year
11 April | Diversified Search Press Release One of the nation’s most renowned presidential historians, the President, Worldwide Hotel Operations of one of the world’s most respected luxury hotel companies,...
AltoPartners and Diversified Search Attend 2019 Special Olympics: Champion Leadership and Inclusion Globally
15 March | AltoPartners, the international alliance of executive search and leadership consulting firms, and Diversified Search, the exclusive U.S. partner of AltoPartners and ranked fifth in Forbes magazine’...
The Inzito Partnership launches Financial Officers Practice
05 March | The Inzito Partnership toasts success of first decade with a new practice The Inzito Partnership, the leading boutique executive search firm in the UK, is expanding its business to form a...
International Paper’s Board of Directors Elects Anders Gustafsson to Its Board
26 February | MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – International Paper Company (NYSE: IP) announced the election of Anders Gustafsson to its Board of Directors effective March 1, 2019. Mr. Gustafsson,...
AltoPartners Germany Host Client Event Focusing on “AI in a Business Context”
31 January | AltoPartners Germany’s 2019 client reception was held at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering in Potsdam on January 25, facilitated by Joachim Becker, AltoPartners Berlin Managing...
Insights
The Director’s Dilemma – December 2019 Edition
10 December | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Carol Leonard, Managing Partner...
The Ripple Effect
27 November | By Richard Sterling, Managing Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via the AltoPartners Australia website, to view the original article click here Reading this...
CEO Sourcing: The Small Cap Experience
25 November | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via the AltoPartners Australia website, to view the original article click here In today’s business world there...
Digitisation and the Democratisation of Luxury
21 November | An AltoPartners Global White Paper showcasing the changes, and challenges, within the Luxury Goods sector Acknowledgments: with grateful thanks to the teams at Accord Group/AltoPartners East and...
Luxe recruitment trends worth watching : Findings From AltoPartners
21 November | An AltoPartners Global White Paper showcasing the changes, and challenges, within the Luxury Goods sector You can get it here. Luxe recruitment trends worth watching: Increasingly companies are...
Six consumer trends that will affect the personal luxury goods sector into the 2020s
21 November | An AltoPartners Global White Paper showcasing the changes, and challenges, within the Luxury Goods sector You can get it here. 1. Less flash, more cash. Middle class aspirational spending power...
The Key Players Needed to Battle Climate Change? America’s Boards.
20 November | By Scott Eversman, Managing Director Diversified Search This article was first posted on the Corporate Board Member website. Read the original version here Four ways corporate boards can enjoin the...
Close, but no Cigar!
18 November | Like any industry that relies so intensely on the human factor, we’ve seen our fair share of fails. Whether they’re comical, or tragi-comical, one thing’s for sure, they were all avoidable. Here...
How to create multi-generation teams that work well? Are we ready to give up the established order?
06 November | By Jana Martinová, Managing Director Accord Group ECE Czech Republic and Slovakia This blog was first posted in Czech on Jana’s LinkedIn Blog. Read the original version here Diversity in the Czech...
The Future of Executive Search and Leadership Consulting – A Focus on Growth (Part 1)
31 October | This article was first published in the latest AESC Executive Talent Magazine, to view the original piece click here for Part 1 This article features contributions from Sonal Agrawal, Managing...
The Future of Executive Search and Leadership Consulting – A Focus on Growth (Part 2)
31 October | This article was first published in the latest AESC Executive Talent Magazine, to view the original piece click here for Part 2 This article features contributions from Sonal Agrawal, Managing...
Emerging Africa : A Growing Talent Market Rich In Opportunities
30 October | This article was first published in the latest AESC Executive Talent Magazine, to view the original piece click here This article features contributions from José Caetano Da Silva, Managing Partner...
Blog Post : A Sole Secret To A Good First Impression
28 October | By Ken Hirshman, Managing Director Diversified Search This blog was first posted the Diversified Search “The Search Engine” blog. Read the original version here I once had a mentor that I can best...
The Director’s Dilemma – October 2019 Edition
07 October | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Jana Martinova, owner and...
The Director’s Dilemma – September 2019 Edition
04 September | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Renata Fabrini, Managing Partner...
Executive Career Development – the step-child of the organisational talent process?
03 September | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via LinkedIn, to view the original article click here Having successfully filled the C-suite, surprisingly few...
The Director’s Dilemma – August 2019 Edition
01 August | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Ricardo Bäcker, Managing Partner...
The CEO for the present, with a future
25 July | By Ricardo Backer, Founder and Manging Partner at Bäcker & Partners, our exclusive member firm in Argentina This post was first published on Ricardo’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog When I search for CEO...
Blog Post : The #1 Mistake Candidates Make In Job Interviews
25 July | By Leslie Pickus Mazza, Senior Vice President, Quality and Talent Diversified Search This blog was first posted the Diversified Search “The Search Engine” blog. Read the original version here I...
India Rising: The State of Talent in the World’s Fastest Growing Economy
23 July | This article was first published in the latest edition of the 2019 AESC Executive Talent Magazine Sonal Agrawal, AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member, Accord India Managing Partner and ...
Blog Post : Hey, Grown-Ups: It’s Time To Lose The Backpack
23 July | By Michael Callahan, Vice President, Marketing and Communications Diversified Search This blog was first posted the Diversified Search “The Search Engine” blog. Read the original version here She...
Podcast : Recruiting Board Members. Best practices; common mistakes; and trends
09 July | In this latest episode of Talent Talks, host Andrew Mitchell is joined by Kevin Hall, Managing Partner at AltoPartners Canada and AltoPartners Global Natural Resources practice leader. In this...
Artificial Intelligence & Executive Search – Killer, Game Changer or Magic Trick?
08 July | Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come a long way since Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code in a pre-fab hut in Bletchley Park in 1942. After its stellar role in deciphering encrypted signals in the...
Private Equity and the Big Talent Squeeze: A victim of its own success?
08 July | This Industry Viewpoint was first published in 2019 Hunt Scanlon State of the Industry Report Sonal Agrawal (Accord India), Simon Bailey (The Inzito Partnership), Stephen Dallamore (Search Partners...
The Director’s Dilemma – June 2019 Edition
05 June | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Stephen Dallamore, Managing...
Disruptive Tech and Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Executive Search
29 May | Thaddeus Andres, Director of Social and Content at The Cluen Corporation This article was first published on the Cluen Corporation website. To read the original article click here Cluen Corporation...
Executive Remuneration Report 2019
28 May | Compiled by Richard Fortune, AltoPartners Australia Director and co-head of the AltoPartners Global Resources practice group Each year we analyse demographics and remuneration profiles of over...
The Director’s Dilemma – May 2019 Edition
07 May | 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, Managing...
Assessing Board Performance
16 April | by Dr Sabine Dembkowski, Better Boards Founder and Managing Partner, and Lauren E. Smith, Managing Director of Diversified Search in the Miami office. Both are members of AltoPartners This...
“Be Prepared” for the shortlist interview
11 April | By Nicholas Buck, Senior Consultant at Sheffield / AltoPartners New Zealand Most executive search processes are lengthy - unavoidably so. In any given instance the list of to-dos includes: client...
Podcast : The Seven Hallmarks of Effective Boards
09 April | In this latest episode of Talent Talks, host Andrew Mitchell is joined by Dr. Sabine Dembkowski, managing partner at Better Boards in London. In this exclusive podcast, Dr. Dembkowski outlines what...
Take your team to the opera: how the Arts can positively shape us
08 April | By Ian Taylor, Executive Director at Sheffield / AltoPartners New Zealand Arts and culture; the celebration of creativity, intellect, history and different societal perspectives, are an integral...
The Director’s Dilemma – April 2019 Edition
01 April | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Mpho Nkeli, Director at Search...
Disrupt your board – ditch old procedures and try something new!
27 March | By Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Why do we run every board meeting the way we ran the last...
Ready to jump ship? Read this first
27 March | Interview with Thomas Heyn, AltoPartners Germany / Jack Russell Consulting Managing Partner and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member You’re good at your job. Exceptional even. But you’re...
Rapids Ahead: How to Future-Proof Your Board
26 March | By Dr. Sabine Dembkowski, trusted board advisor and Founder of Better Boards, with key insights on global executive search trends provided by AltoPartners AltoPartners and Better Boards formed a ...
A PROUD HISTORY: THE EXECUTIVE SEARCH PROFESSION AND AESC
18 March | Contribution from Judith von Seldeneck, Founder & Chair, Diversified Search and AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member If you want your business or organization to thrive, it is...
No Silver Bullet
15 March | By Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. If only there was a simple answer to the conundrum of...
Threading the Needle: SME Prosperity
13 March | by Peter Tulau, Director of AltoPartners Australia In the current race for business success, SME’s can sometimes have a torrid time as they try to adapt and prosper in challenging environments....
Women And Minorities Are Still Underrepresented In The Boardroom
12 March | by Neysa Dillon-Brown, Managing Director of Diversified Search Healthcare Services Practice This article was first published on the Corporate Board Member website The Alliance for Board Diversity...
The Road Up
07 March | by Richard Sterling, Director of AltoPartners Australia Last year I hosted a round table of 26 male and female executives from major Australian companies exploring the issue of gender diversity and...
The Director’s Dilemma – March 2019 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 Albert Froom, Managing Director...
Leaders Who Inspire: Accelerating the Path to Gender Coherence
28 February | by Sonal Agrawal, AltoPartners Founding Partner, AESC Main Board Member, Managing Partner of Accord India and Global AltoPartners Operating Committee Member Sonal Agrawal contributed to the...
Becoming a Purposeful Board
27 February | by Dale Jones, President and CEO of Diversified Search and Global AltoPartners Operating Committee Member This Governance Letter was first published in the Directors & Boards 2019 First Quarter...
The Director’s Dilemma – February 2019 Edition
04 February | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Lauren E. Smith, Managing...
Your Executive Guide to Joining a Board of Directors
28 January | Contributions by Kevin Hall, Managing Director at Bluestone Leadership Services / AltoPartners Canada and Corinne Klajda, CEO at Accord Group Polska This BlueSteps Publication was first published...
Videos
The Importance of Effective Boards – Better Boards Strategic Partnership
05 July | AltoPartners have formed a strategic partnership with Better Boards – the company that is credited to have taken Board Audits, Board Effectiveness Reviews, and Board Development Programmes to the...
Dee Caffari (MBE) Presentation to AltoPartners
02 July | Dee Caffari has sailed around the world six times. She is the first woman to have sailed single-handed and non-stop around the world in both directions and the only woman to have sailed non-stop...