Media Center – 2020
News
Sonal Agrawal named AltoPartners Global Chair: Strengthens international strategic focus & commitment to diversity
08 December | AltoPartners, the leading global alliance of retained executive search and leadership consulting firms, is proud to announce Sonal Agrawal as its new global Chair. Ms Agrawal has served on the...
Seeliger y Conde Spain Joins AltoPartners: AltoPartners Strategic Growth Despite Tough Economic Conditions
01 December | AltoPartners, the fastest growing leading alliance of boutique retained executive search and leadership consulting firms, is proud to announce that despite the challenging global economic business...
Bäcker & Partners (Argentina) Announces Strategic Alliance with Action for Talent in Uruguay : Offering Specialised Talent Solutions & Executive Search
25 November | Bäcker & Partners, our exclusive partner in Argentina, announce a strategic alliance with Action for Talent, a firm based in Uruguay, specialized in talent solutions and executive search. The...
Seeliger y Conde Morocco Joins AltoPartners: AltoPartners Strategic Growth Across Africa Continues
19 November | The ability to attract high-calibre, globally renowned boutique executive search member firms is a hallmark of AltoPartners’ global success. 2020 has been a year of continued growth for the...
AltoPartners Sign “AESC Diversity Pledge” : Reaffirm Our Global Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
17 September | AltoPartners, the leading international alliance of boutique executive search and leadership consulting firms, proudly sign the AESC Diversity Pledge and further affirm our innate commitment,...
Johan Cruyff Institute formalizes an agreement with AltoPartners Spain & WFS Talent to facilitate employment opportunities in the sports industry for its students
10 September | WFS Talent is the result of a partnership between World Football Summit, the platform that brings together the main leaders in the football industry, and AltoPartners Spain - headed by Sara Bieger,...
Executive Connection Colombia Joins AltoPartners: AltoPartners Strategic Growth Despite Tough Economic Conditions
02 September | Download document The ability to attract high-calibre, globally renowned boutique executive search member firms is a hallmark of AltoPartners’ global success. Despite the challenging global...
Fowler Fox & Co Hong Kong Joins AltoPartners: Continue to Build Asia Pacific Presence
06 July | AltoPartners, the international alliance of boutique executive search and leadership consulting firms, proudly announces the expansion of its global footprint through the addition of Fowler Fox...
Harvard Business Review Article: How Reskilling Can Soften the Economic Blow of Covid-19 (Novare Sweden in the News)
09 June | This article was first published on the Harvard Business Review website. You can read the original article here In the early months of 2020, millions of workers worldwide were laid off as the...
Magazine Interview : Executive Search also continued in lockdown – partly in a different way due to the restrictions.
08 June | Download document Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, Managing Partner at AltoPartners in Austria was interviewed by the Austrian business magazine trend and gave insights into what has happened and changed in...
AltoPartners Named in Hunt Scanlon Global Top 40 Recruiters List
05 June | Hunt Scanlon Media has just released its annual roundup of the top 40 global talent providers that now dominate the recruiting business worldwide. Our Top 40 ranges from the largest recruiting and...
Diversified Search Ranks on Forbes Annual “America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms” List
03 June | We are proud to announce that Diversified Search have, once again, ranked in the top 5 on the annual Forbes America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms list. The job market today is nearly...
Skill Shift Initiative: Grand Hôtel, McDonald’s and the City of Stockholm join forces to increase staffing to healthcare and help combat the coronavirus crisis
03 April | Stockholm, Sweden - The hotel and restaurant industries are among those hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis. Skill Shift Initiative in collaboration with Grand Hôtel Stockholm is adding...
Osprey Executive Search / AltoPartners Canada Offering No Cost Services to Help Organizations During Pandemic Crisis
02 April | Due to the current international COVID-19 crisis, AltoPartners Canada – which includes managing partner Keith Labbett along with his Canadian partners Kevin Hall, Shauna Louie, Oliver Baezner –...
SAS Partnership with Sophiahemmet & Wallenberg Foundation : Medical training for temporarily laid off employees
19 March | Stockholm, Sweden - SAS-employees who have been laid off as a result of the Corona pandemic are being offered a medical training course at Sophiahemmet University in Stockholm, Sweden. With their...
Diversified Search Acquires Storbeck Search & Associates
06 February | Leading national education executive search firm becomes the third to join new “Diversified Search Group” in the last year; parent firm is now one of the nation’s largest search firms, with...
Insights
The Director’s Dilemma – December 2020 Edition
01 December | 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 Partner...
The New Age Of Recruitment
12 November | By Christo Badenhorst, Director at Search Partners International Before the onset of COVID 19, changes in the recruitment industry were already occurring. Recruitment, being a dynamic industry, is...
The Illusion of the Perfect Director
11 November | By Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Every so often some journalist will come up with a list...
What Does a Contemporary Manufacturing Executive Look Like?
10 November | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published on AuManufacturing website. To view the original post, click here The thing about reality checks is that they...
Is Working From Home Working? Insights from AltoPartners 2020 HR Survey
09 November | As the working world emerges cautiously from the Covid-19 pandemic, employers across all sectors will be looking at the prospect of their staff working from home on a permanent basis. The agile...
The Director’s Dilemma – November 2020 Edition
02 November | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Ian Taylor, Executive Director...
Executive Talent: A Buyer’s or Seller’s Market – The Impact of Covid?
12 October | By Keith Labbett, Managing Partner at Osprey Executive Search / AltoPartners Toronto With all that has transpired in the past seven months, I am constantly being asked how has this effected the...
Zoom Times: Is Your Recruitment Process On Hold Pending A Handshake?
06 October | Just six months ago, the idea of making a senior, mission-critical appointment without ever having met the candidate was unthinkable. In the first phase of the COVID pandemic, many assumed that...
AltoPartners’ Top Tips For Successful End-To-End Digital Recruitment
06 October | Have you put all your executive search on hold because you can’t meet candidates in person? Is it possible to actually conduct a successful executive search process without ever meeting the...
The Director’s Dilemma – October 2020 Edition
01 October | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Sonal Agrawal, Managing Partner...
Don’t forget the people during critical business transitions
30 September | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia Post-Covid many businesses are contemplating some form of transition, whether it’s a sale, IPO, merger, acquisition, or restructure. Here’s our...
20 ideas to make bored boards look innovative
29 September | By Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Okay — I was feeling mischieveous this morning. There is...
7 FAQs About Thriving In The Workplace — Answered
22 September | Sonal Agrawal, Managing Partner Accord India / AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member and AESC Main Board Member, interviewed for MissMalini #AskMeAnything series. This September 18, for...
Understanding And Combatting Tough Conversations
22 September | By Jaco Kriek, Director at Search Partners International / AltoPartners South Africa Let’s face it, no one enjoys conflict and often we try our best to avoid it all together. However, keeping our...
Could A Flexible Workforce Work For Your Business?
15 September | By Bongani Magudulela Director at Search Partners International The evolution of technology has created new territory when it comes to the type of employees that help to grow a business. Many...
Charting your Future
03 September | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia The thing about reality checks is that they tend to be thrust upon us at the most inconvenient moments, and as reality-checks go, this current one...
The Director’s Dilemma – September 2020 Edition
01 September | 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...
Resources sector update 2020: the year so far
12 August | By Richard Fortune, Managing Director at AltoPartners Australia and MAusIMM, Director – Natural Resources This article was first published on the AusIMM Bulletin. To read the original article,...
The Director’s Dilemma – August 2020 Edition
11 August | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Veronica J. Biggins, Managing...
Why are Leaders Successful? – Knowledge and Skills
28 July | By Tony Leng, Managing Director of Diversified Search and the heads up the Technology and Private Equity practices. He also leads the firm’s San Francisco office. This blog was first published on...
Asked and answered! Christiana Riley, CEO of Deutsche Bank USA Corp, on Diversity, Impact of COVID-19 and the Geopolitical Situation
23 July | AltoPartners Vienna Partners Caroline Rofe-Woess; Dr Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, and Dr Gabriele Werner are privileged to share the insights of a truly impressive expert in Finance, Christiana Riley,...
The Rant In The Resignation Letter
23 July | Article contribution by Sonal Agrawal, Managing Partner Accord India / AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member and AESC Main Board Member. “The actual letter is a formal notification of the...
Why Are Leaders Successful? Understanding the Whole Person
22 July | By Tony Leng, Managing Director of Diversified Search and the heads up the Technology and Private Equity practices. He also leads the firm’s San Francisco office. This blog was first published on...
Lockdown and Leverage: What the smart money is doing now to prepare for the next crisis
15 July | By Dr Thomas Heyn, Managing Partner Jack Russell Munich / AltoPartners Deutschland and Global AltoPartners Operating Committee member In my practice, I am fortunate to be consulted by CEOs who...
Checklist for Board Presentations: Have you covered what you need to make an impact?
13 July | Checklist for Board Presentations Download document Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney,...
Adaptive Resilience
08 July | By Tony Leng, Managing Director of Diversified Search and the heads up the Technology and Private Equity practices. He also leads the firm’s San Francisco office. This blog was first published on...
2020 Executive Remuneration Report
02 July | Download the 2020 Executive Remuneration Report with benchmarks and key insights for ASX listed mining, oil and gas companies. To download the full report, click here Richard Fortune, Managing...
The Director’s Dilemma – July 2020 Edition
02 July | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Richard Sterling, Managing...
CHRO views on the #newnormal
23 June | CHRO Download document As part of the Accord India Insight Series our Accord India Consumer practice Partners Anjali Singhania and Kaushik Dasgupta conducted their 2nd closed door discussions with...
Back to Base : A Leader’s Guide To Getting Buy-In
11 June | As the world emerges cautiously out of lockdown, more and more people are venturing back to the workplace. This is good news for the economy, but like so much about the COVID-crisis, it’s, well…,...
Working from Home : A Mother’s Perspective
10 June | By Justyna Luterek Accord Group / AltoPartners Poland The COVID-Pandemic has exposed the degree to which women’s economic participation in society is dependent on childcare. In Poland, statists...
Leadership in the Time of the Re
09 June | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via the AltoPartners Australia website, to view the original article click here For MDs and CEOs leading their...
The Director’s Dilemma – June 2020 Edition
02 June | 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 Partner ...
Navigating the Internal versus External Selection Dilemma
20 May | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published viathe AltoPartners Australia website, to view the original article click here I recently helped an Australian...
Transformation Projects and Career Transition Services are Two Sides of a Coin
14 May | By Jana Martinova, Managing Partner of Accord Group Czech Republic This blog was first posted on Accord ECE website on 13 May 2020. In these days, companies all over the world are receiving money...
Wanted: Customer Crusader to Drive Growth Strategy
13 May | You can get it here. Having a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) has become a badge of honour for customer-centric companies – proof-positive that your organisation is serious about seeing things from a...
The Chief Customer Officer : virtue-signalling or strategic imperative?
13 May | You can get it here. Having a Chief Customer Officer (CCO) has become a badge of honour for customer-centric companies – proof-positive that your organisation is serious about seeing things from a...
The Director’s Dilemma – May 2020 Edition
04 May | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Keith Labbett, Managing Director...
Best Practices for Covid Times
04 May | By Ricardo Bäcker, Founding Partner of Bäcker & Partners Here are some good practices we can recommend for these times: Help all employees to become aware that they are not likely to return to...
Wanted: Practical Visionary – The Role of a CIO in a Post-Covid World
29 April | You can get it here. The unprecedented global lockdown in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 has catapulted the Chief Information Officer into the spotlight. Virtually overnight, a company’s...
The CIO Role in a Post-COVID World
29 April | You can get it here. The unprecedented global lockdown in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 has catapulted the Chief Information Officer into the spotlight. Virtually overnight, a company’s...
Effective Leadership in Times of Crisis
29 April | By Eduardo Ortega and Oscar Maril, leadership consultants at Equation Partners Chile / AltoPartners Chile On the occasion of the pandemic crisis generated by Covid 19 and our mandatory seclusion in...
Leading with Technology
28 April | Perspectives from the AltoPartners Australia team Life in the pandemic maelstrom has, among other things, demonstrated that technology is the means by which we can keep our economy moving, maintain...
The Art & Science of Video Presentations and Online Interviews – a precious experience for humble consultants
24 April | By Jana Martinova, Managing Partner of Accord Group Czech Republic This blog was first posted on Jana’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog and Accord Group ECE website on 23 April 2020. In the first week of...
Breaking the Silence
17 April | By Dale Jones, AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Search This blog was first posted Dale’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog on 16 April 2020. Read the...
Leadership, Crisis & Long-Term Business Sustainability : Dr Anastassia Lauterbach Interview
16 April | In the midst of the covid-19 global pandemic, Dr Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek and Carolin Rofe-Woess, AltoPartners Austria, interviewed Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach on leadership during a time of crisis and...
In Times Like These…
08 April | By Dale Jones, AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Search This blog was first posted the Diversified Search “The Search Engine” blog. Read the...
Remotely Possible – The New Normal
08 April | For the first time in living memory, teams have been separated en masse and ordered to work from home. Setups differ considerably, from sophisticated home offices to sharing the dining room table...
Board’s Role During Crisis : Practical Tips for Boards During Covid-19
06 April | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. What should your board be doing right now? Here...
The Director’s Dilemma – April 2020 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 Victor Arias, Managing Director...
Video Interviewing – A Primer for the Uninitiated
23 March | Interviews can be nerve-wracking enough without the added stress of flying solo on an unfamiliar video conferencing platform. With more and more executives self-isolating and entire teams testing...
Sanitizers and Zoom : Coping with Covid-19
17 March | On Friday 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, a pandemic. As a global organisation with 53 offices and over 350 partners across 31...
Before you appoint your next executive ask yourself these 7 crucial questions (Question 3)
05 March | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via Peter’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog, to view the original article click here Appointing a new senior executive is a...
The Director’s Dilemma – March 2020 Edition
02 March | 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...
Before you appoint your next executive ask yourself these 7 crucial questions (Question 2)
02 March | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via Peter’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog, to view the original article click here Appointing a new senior executive is a...
Closing The Deal – A rejection-proof strategy
27 February | You have your first-choice candidate, your financial offer is solid, but you can’t get that candidate to commit. There are a number of issues that could deter candidates from accepting your offer....
Blog Post : It’s Time To Put Your Phone Down: A Millennial’s Take On Unplugging In The Digital Age
26 February | This blog was first posted the Diversified Search “The Search Engine” blog. Read the original version here Somewhere, amongst the rise of iPhones and smartwatches, we crossed a line into sudden and...
Dead Ends, Deviations and other Deal Breakers
25 February | Battling to get your first-choice candidates to commit? Here’s a list of the top post-interview deal-breakers in 2020, and how to avoid them. We all know the one about the executive who took a...
Mining for Talent – The Evolution of Talent in the Mining Industry
20 February | Perspectives from Mining Indaba 2020 Stephen Dallamore, AltoPartners Global Chairman / Managing Director at Search Partners International (SPi), Christo Badenhorst and Jaco Kriek, Directors at ...
Before you appoint your next executive ask yourself these 7 crucial questions
20 February | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia This article was first published via Peter’s LinkedIn Pulse Blog, to view the original article click here Appointing a new senior executive is a...
10 Hot Leadership Topics for 2020
19 February | Research compiled by DDI and insights shared by Sheffield in New Zealand, a founding member of AltoPartners This blog was first posted on the Sheffield corporate website. Read the original version...
What does a contemporary Chief Information and Digital Officer look like?
17 February | By Peter Tulau, Director at AltoPartners Australia I recently completed a successful Chief Information and Digital Officer search assignment and was struck by the capabilities that distinguished...
Board Selection and Composition, Compensation, Positioning and International Trends – Perspectives from “Zukunft Frauen”
14 February | By Dr Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, Managing Partner AltoPartners Austria Overview of a workshop was held for “Zukunft Frauen”, an initiative of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, the Federal Ministry of...
Leadership, Loops and Links – What Golf Taught Me About Leadership
13 February | By Tessa Oldenbourg, Partner Executive Development AltoPartners / Jack Russell Consulting Tessa Oldenbourg, executive coach, career counsellor, management diagnostician and two-time winner of the...
Everything I know about business, I could have learnt from Star Trek!
06 February | By Dr Thomas Heyn, Managing Partner at AltoPartners Munich and a member of the AltoPartners Global Operating Committee There’s a show on TV – on primetime and in infinite re-runs – about a small...
The Forgotten Trait To Being A Successful Executive
06 February | Euris Belle, Managing Director at Diversified Search This piece was first published on the Diversified Search website, view it here In executive search, people are constantly asking you to convince...
The Director’s Dilemma – February 2020 Edition
04 February | 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...
Attracting top talent in 2020
03 February | By Keith Labbett, Managing Partner at Osprey Executive Search (OES) / AltoPartners Toronto Executive search consultants are in the unique position of having to look outward when it comes to...
Videos
Festive Season’s Greetings From AltoPartners
15 December |
AESC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2020 : Dr. Bish Agrawal
19 November | Dr Bish Agrawal, a Founding member of AltoPartners and Founding Chairman of Accord India, has just been awarded the AESC Lifetime Achievement Award. The global Association of Executive Search and...
AESC Award of Excellence Winner 2020 : Dale Jones
18 November | We are delighted and very proud that Dale Jones, AltoPartners Global Operating Committee Member and Diversified Search Chief Executive Officer, has been awarded the AESC 2020 Award of Excellence...