The executive search and recruitment industry holds a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of businesses by identifying and placing top leadership talent. The leaders we select today will guide organisations through the complexities of tomorrow. Yet, despite this responsibility, the executive hiring process remains vulnerable to unconscious biases—subtle but powerful forces that can compromise the goal of building diverse, innovative, and inclusive leadership teams.
Read MoreTogether with the International Hospital Federation’s Women in Leadership Forum, we recently hosted an event to help raise awareness and encourage an interchange of experience about career progression into senior leadership roles. This was a wide-reaching forum providing unique insights and personal experiences on overcoming the challenges of being a woman in a position of leadership, discussing topics such as: barriers to entry, structural inequalities leveraging opportunities, allies and sponsorship.
Read MoreWith increased competition and greater globalisation, universities are continuing to reflect on whether their commitment to reflecting diversity is delivering tangible results. We spoke with our colleague and inclusion expert Owen Francis about the various initiatives that leaders in higher education are using to meet their diversity challenges.
Read MoreWith increased competition and greater globalisation, universities are continuing to reflect on whether their commitment to reflecting diversity is delivering tangible results.
Read MoreThe corporate dialogue relating to diversity and inclusion is relatively advanced, however, with the leadership ranks of the business world remaining predominantly white and male, it is important that we understand diversity holistically. Diversity in its truest sense is about so much more - it is not only about our inherent characteristics but also experiential and acquired differences.
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