Media Center – 2023
News
More Than Just A Number : International Migrants Day 2023
18 December | When Fredrik Hillelson established Novare Human Capital in 2001, he knew that he wanted to use his expertise to be a change agent. A former HR executive and officer in the Swedish Marines, Fredrik...
Accord Group Celebrates 28th Anniversary
04 September | Accord Group, a renowned leader in Executive Search & Leadership Consulting services, is delighted to celebrate its 28th anniversary of excellence in connecting top-tier talent with prestigious...
Diversified Search Group’s Judith M. von Seldeneck and Aileen K. Alexander Named to Philadelphia Business Journal’s 2023 Power 101 List
13 March | Leading the largest top 10 woman-founded and woman-led executive search firm Diversified Search Group’s Judith “Judee” M. von Seldeneck, Founder and Chair, and Aileen K. Alexander, Chief Executive...
Working towards equity – International Women’s Day 2023
08 March | This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #EmbraceEquity. Very deliberately, it’s not #EmbraceEquality. That’s because equity and equality are two different things. Equality means each...
Press Release : Diversified Search Group Acquires Yardstick Management (Significantly Expands Management Consulting Capabilities)
19 January | Diversified Search Group, the largest woman-founded executive search firm in the world and consistently recognized by Forbes as a top 10 firm in the U.S., announced on 18 January 2023 that it has...
Insights
AltoPartners Global White Paper “Solving the Puzzle On Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses : Global Insights and Trends 2023”
11 December | Involving the deliberate and systematic process of identifying, developing, and nurturing individuals within (or from outside) the family to take over key leadership roles when the current...
11th Generation Cousin Consortium Business For the Future : In conversation with Renée de Kuyper
11 December | In conjunction with the publication of the AltoPartners Global White Paper “Solving the Puzzle On Succession Planning in Family-Owned Businesses : Global Insights and Trends 2023”, we share an...
The Director’s Dilemma – December 2023 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 Marco Arcaini, is Founder and...
The Director’s Dilemma – November 2023 Edition
06 November | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Jana Martinová, is a long-term...
CIO as middle manager or key strategic player?
10 October | By Christian Rolin, Partner at Peoplement / AltoPartners Denmark. This article was first posted in Danish on the Peoplement website. To read the original post, click here. All organisations know,...
Ask Alto : Can co-working spaces give you the edge when attracting top talent?
03 October | In July this year, Visual Capitalist reported that post-Covid, there are one billion square feet of empty office space in the United States alone. Represented as a single office tower, that’s...
The Director’s Dilemma – October 2023 Edition
02 October | 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...
So impressive it should be a template
12 September | By Richard Sterling, Partner at AltoPartners Australia. This article was first posted on LinkedIn. To read the original post, click here. Recently I worked with the board of a faith based not for...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Anjali Singhania
11 September | This week we profile Anjali Singhania, a partner in Accord India’s Mumbai office with a gift for seeking out talent in the FMCG and Media sector. Armed with a BA honours in Economics from Delhi...
The Director’s Dilemma – September 2023 Edition
06 September | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Jaco Kriek, Managing Director,...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Reenu Saraf
04 September | ‘Better call Reenu.’ She’s been described as “one of the best firefighters” in the business, with outstanding problem-solving skills. Meet Reenu Saraf, Partner in the Mumbai office of Accord...
One Man. One Bike. One Epic Journey
08 August | Follow Albert Froom, Managing Partner Netherlands, as he embarks on an epic 1100km solo bicycle ride across the Netherlands, through Germany and ending in Prague, Czech Republic. This journey is a...
Board and Executive Remuneration 2023 Update
07 August | Access Our Report Series AltoPartners Australia have just released the 2023 Board and Executive Remuneration update for ASX listed Mining, Energy, Industrial and Tech Companies. This has been a...
The Director’s Dilemma – August 2023 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 Dr Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek,...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Anuradha Menon
31 July | A stray email 15 years ago changed Anuradha Menon’s life forever, causing her to pivot from telecoms to Executive Search. It was a good day for Accord India too because she turned out to be a...
The Director’s Dilemma – July 2023 Edition
03 July | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Sonal Agrawal, AltoPartners...
Ask Alto : What is an exit interview and why should we do more of them?
22 June | The exit interview is a staple tool for human resource departments. The Society for Human Resource Management, which has a range of articles on the topic going back to 2004, defines an exit...
Ask Alto : What is a Director of First Impressions? Job title inflation… what’s really going on, and should it be encouraged?
08 June | When a company decides that the front-of-house receptionist should instead be called the Director of First Impressions, it’s easy to smile wryly and wonder what they were thinking. But the rise of...
Wanted: Multi-lingual, well-rounded, deeply curious, sporty book lovers with a passion for people. Must love dogs.
05 June | What we learned from interviewing 44 amazing women of AltoPartners. Last year, in honour of International Women’s Month, we ran a series called Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners in honour of Maya...
The AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion : If your inclusive language guide doesn’t come with a trigger warning, chances are it’s not doing its job!
01 June | Eight tips for using language to shift perceptions and promote cohesion in the workplace. In March this year, Oxfam updated its inclusive language guide aimed at helping staff and others in the...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Molly Brennan
22 May | This week we are delighted to feature Molly Brennan, Global Managing Partner - Nonprofit Practice Lead at Koya Partners / Diversified Search Group (AltoPartners USA), who left journalism and...
Ask Alto : What is mansplaining, and why does it matter?
18 May | Men regularly try to explain that there weren’t women writing in the Middle Ages (I have a PhD in medieval women’s writing). - Kathryn Maude, Twitter How to ride a bike. While I’m on my bike. By a...
The Director’s Dilemma – May 2023 Edition
15 May | Produced by Julie Garland-McLellan, Consultant at AltoPartners Australia and non-executive director and board consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Contribution by Ralf Nejedl, Partner Alto...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Kjersti Grøttås
01 May | Meet Kjersti Grøttås, a partner with Kingbird, AltoPartners/ Norway, and our go-to expert on senior managers and specialists in commercial and IT roles. Cheerful, modest and empathetic (she got a...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What is Imposter Syndrome, and is it a leadership issue?
28 April | “I got a raise. Now they will finally discover that I am useless. I won’t find another job at a similar salary because everyone knows that I do not deserve it.” - A highly educated, hardworking...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Gosia Golebiewska
24 April | Bibliophile, Star Trek fan and CFO extraordinaire – meet Gosia Golebiewska, the administrative powerhouse behind the Accord Group / AltoPartners Poland. Armed with an MA in Finance and Banking...
From leadership to life rules: the books you need on World Book Day
20 April | April 23 is World Book Day – and that means different things to different people. To the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, World Book and Copyright Day means a...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Malgorzata Stankiewicz
17 April | Meet one of the newer members of the fabulous Accord Poland team, our partners in Warsaw. Malgorzata Stankiewicz heads up communications and marketing for Accord Poland and Nuvadis Interim, their...
Ask Alto Watching you, watching me: workplace surveillance in a post-Covid world
13 April | In the 1700s, English philosopher and social reformer, Jeremy Bentham, championed the Panopticon Tower as an architectural device to keep prisoners in check. A central watchtower with a line of...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Hege Lise Sørbye
11 April | Meet Hege Lise Sørbye, advisor and partner at Kingbird Executive Search / AltoPartners Norway. Armed with an MBA from the Norwegian School of Economics and extensive experience in retail, FMCG,...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: How to use diversity metrics to create an inclusive workplace
06 April | It is no longer up for debate that companies need to move towards diversifying their workforces. Over a decade of empirical research shows that more diverse companies outperform less diverse...
The Director’s Dilemma – April 2023 Edition
03 April | 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 of...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Maureen Alphonse-Charles
03 April | For Maureen Alphonse-Charles, Senior Vice President of Talent, Diversity and Equity at Koya Partners, a member of the Diversified Search Group/ AltoPartners USA, executive search offers infinite...
Ask Alto: You’re planning a holiday – how to stop feeling guilty, disconnect and ensure that everyone accepts that leave is leave
30 March | Whether in the northern or southern hemisphere, a change of seasons often means executives, employees and entrepreneurs alike plan a spring or autumn holiday. Whether it’s a few days added to the...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Anna Schauman
27 March | This week the spotlight is on Anna Schauman, senior partner and co-owner of the Novare Group/ AltoPartners Sweden and head of their financial services practice. We caught up with her on a public...
Ask Alto: How to sign off business emails
23 March | “Well, I firmly clasp and kiss your hand. Keep well, cheerful, happy, work, leap, let yourself be carried away, sing and, if possible, don’t forget a provincial writer, your zealous admirer…” This...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Linda Sanchez
20 March | This week we go to the city of brotherly love, aka Philadelphia, to meet Linda Sanchez, the can-do Chief People Officer at Diversified Search/AltoPartners USA. A Philly girl, born and bred, Linda...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Back to Basics
16 March | Whether you’re starting out on this journey or simply under pressure from regulators, shareholders and investors to do better, here’s a checklist to kick start or re-invigorate a stalled DE&I...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Pamela Jiménez
13 March | Meet the irrepressible Pamela Jiménez, a psychologist from Santiago de Chile, and one of the powerhouses behind the team at Equation Partners / AltoPartners Chile. Armed with abundant joie de...
Ask Alto: Coffee meetings – what are they, and should we stop them?
09 March | The isolation imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic was hard for many people. For the Economist’s Bartleby columnist, however, there must have been one redeeming feature: a lack of coffee meetings....
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Monique Hansen
06 March | Monique Chandra Hansen leads the financial services practice at The Inzito Partnership/ AltoPartners UK. Based in the heart of her beloved London, Monique combines extensive experience in the...
Ask Alto: What are the top diversity, equity and inclusion learning topics that leaders need to include in their training to create a more inclusive culture?
02 March | At AltoPartners we’ve been running a series of guides to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and as the number of articles has mounted up, we’ve noticed some recurring themes. One of those...
The Director’s Dilemma – March 2023 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 Nathalie Deroche, Partner at...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Greta Frey
27 February | Linguist, tennis fiend and bookworm – meet Greta Frey, Senior Consultant at MPB Recruitment Group AG / AltoPartners Switzerland and a firm favourite among colleagues, clients and candidates who...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Obesity in the workplace – is it time to rethink the employee wellness programme?
23 February | For the first time ever, overweight and obese people outnumber their underweight counterparts – a phenomenon that occurs in every region except parts of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. According to...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Emily Henders
20 February | Ten years ago, UK-born Emily Henders met her future husband in Italy, an encounter that would see her swap London for his native Calgary, and teaching for executive search, where she worked her...
ChatGPT has killed content, and that’s a good thing
17 February | By Renee Moodie, senior journalist, content creator and editor and a member of the AltoPartners Global Communications team. This blog was originally posted here. Perhaps it’s the circles I move in…...
Ask Alto: What is bystander intervention, how best to do it – and how to make sure it happens?
16 February | The Hans Christian Andersen story of the emperor who parades through the streets naked, believing that he is wearing magnificent yet invisible clothes, might not seem relevant to the 21st century...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Caroline Rofe-Woess
13 February | This week we feature Caroline Rofe-Woess, the Anglophile in AltoPartners’ team in Vienna. Growing up in the UK, Caroline spent many years in the investment banking sector in London, where she was...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Encouraging allyship in the workplace
09 February | The word “allyship” made news headlines in December 2021, when it was chosen by Dictionary.com as its word of the year – even though it had only been added to the site as a word in November of...
A Key Role For HR Leaders: To Spar With Their Colleagues In The C-Suite
06 February | This interview was first published on LinkedIn. See the original post here Julia Zdrahal-Urbanek, managing partner of AltoPartners Executive Search Austria and board director at Gebrüder Ulmer,...
Ask Alto : What are workplace rituals and can hybrid / remote teams still benefit?
02 February | In his autobiography, Faf du Plessis, former South African cricket captain, describes a team ritual in which players throw protea flowers into a fire. The symbolism is rich: the team’s name is the...
The Director’s Dilemma – February 2023 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 Sandra Olive, Partner at Bäcker...
Three ways executives can be outstanding in 2023
31 January | Article by Keith Labett, Managing Partner at Osprey Executive Search / AltoPartners Toronto Using an old golf analogy “Drive for Show but Putt for Dough”, golfers in poor weather must rely on a...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Julia Scheffer
30 January | This week we profile dynamic super-communicator Julia Scheffer, AltoPartners Global Director: Business Development. Master of the friendly reminder, and the glue that holds everything and everyone...
Ask Alto: What is career cushioning, and why is it a good idea?
26 January | The business world has been shaken by dramatic economic and geopolitical events over the last few years. Inflation, tight labour markets, the first major land war in Europe since 1945 and...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Renee Moodie
23 January | Meet Renee Moodie, the woman behind much of AltoPartners’ content. A journalist by profession, Renee is a writer, editor, content strategist, grammar geek and media trainer. We love her for her...
AltoPartners Guide to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Cultural competence and diversity initiatives
19 January | Google the term “cultural competence” and the results will contain many links to articles in the health and social work fields. That’s because it’s a key skill in the medical and care fields,...
Never in a Hundred Years : International Parity at Work Day 2023
18 January | International Parity at Work Day slipped quietly by on 11 January - but gender parity is still a huge issue in 2023. Here are eight key takeaways: 1. It’s gone backwards. The economic and...
Phenomenal Women of AltoPartners – Joo-Lee Aw
16 January | This week we feature ardent naturalist, aspiring musician and intrepid traveller Joo-Lee Aw, founder of The People at Work, our partner in Singapore and China. What was your childhood career...