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Preparing your leaders for tomorrow starts today
Generating extraordinary business results requires exceptional leaders who can sustain, accelerate, and when necessary, transform a business’s strategy and performance. We address your most pressing leadership challenges so that your executives drive maximum impact.
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of senior executives fail within the first 18 months of a new position
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of organizations fail to reach their M&A goals following a transaction
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of organizations are confident in their existing succession plans
OUR FOCUS
Solving Critical Leadership Issues
We provide invaluable guidance in the identification, development, selection, and transition of your senior executives, combining leadership benchmarks with industry and functional expertise.
Perform
Senior Executive Transition and Performance
Senior Executive Transition and Performance
Amplify the impact of your leaders and their teams during succession and transition through tailored and immersive development experiences.
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Preparing Leaders for Growth and Change
Accelerate your transformation agenda with leaders who can drive maximum value creation from your investment.
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Predict
Predicting the Next-Gen C-Suite
Future-proof your long-term performance by identifying and cultivating today the leaders you need for tomorrow.
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- Transition Launchpad
Guide executives through the critical milestones in the first six months of a transition to mitigate change risk and accelerate cultural integration.
- Immersive Development
Address executives’ in-role performance gaps through intensive and individualized development experiences.
- Top Team Performance
Fast-track executives’ leadership impact and capability to drive results through their teams.
Senior Executive Transition and Performance
Develop your executives for new roles, mitigate the performance risks associated with transitioning into the C-Suite, and accelerate the performance of leaders and their teams through curated and cutting-edge development experiences which address the unique challenges that C-level executives face.
Preparing Leaders for Growth and Change
- Transformational Leadership
Identify and develop the executives who can execute against the specific requirements of a transformation to drive the most value creation from the change.
- Organization Alignment
Optimize your leaders and workforce to achieve your strategic objectives through data-driven insights on your organizational strategy, culture, and diversity & inclusion initiatives.
- Private Equity Talent Advisory
Maximize value creation and de-risk your investments through evidence-based, actionable insights on leaders, teams, and organizational culture at every stage of the investment lifecycle.
Preparing Leaders for Growth and Change
Arm your executives to lead your organization through strategic change initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, or new ownership structures. We understand the unique dynamics of these transformative events and provide tailored guidance and solutions to ensure that your executives lead the organization towards sustained high performance.
Predicting the Next-Gen C-Suite
- Contextual Succession Management
Anticipate the leadership impact of shifts in your business’s strategy and market by identifying the factors that will drive C-Suite executive success, assessing incumbents against specific requirements, and developing executives to ensure a pipeline of “ready-now” leaders.
- Accelerated Development
Identify the capabilities that your executives need to be successful in the C-Suite and accelerate their development through intensive and individualized development experiences.
Predicting the Next-Gen C-Suite
Position your organization for uninterrupted, long-term performance with a context-sensitive, benchmark-driven approach to identifying, selecting, and developing potential C-Suite successors.
Leadership Span™
Our work is informed by our deep expertise and proprietary Leadership Span™ competency model, developed in collaboration with Hogan Assessment Systems. Leadership Span™ identifies the competencies that differentiate leaders who can succeed in the C-Suite as well as the competencies that are most critical at the top of organizations.
Leadership Span™
Our work is informed by our deep expertise and proprietary Leadership Span™ competency model, developed in collaboration with Hogan Assessment Systems. Leadership Span™
identifies the competencies that differentiate leaders who can succeed in the C-Suite as well as the competencies that are most critical at the top of organizations.
HOW WE HELP
Leadership Advisory Services
Executive Assessment
Predict your executives’ (and candidates’) capacity to be successful in current and future business contexts based on assessments that blend industry, function, personality, and performance data.
Succession Management
Identify and develop the talent that your C‑Suite needs to build long-term shareholder value in the context of your organization’s strategy.
Executive and Team Development
Accelerate the transition and performance of your highest priority leaders and their teams through bespoke and cutting-edge development experiences, designed for the unique challenges facing CEOs and C‑Suite executives.
Leadership Transformation
Quickly assess, appoint and develop the right leaders to accelerate your business goals in the context of an M&A transaction or a strategic change effort.
Organization Alignment
Address your organizational strategy, structure, culture, and diversity and inclusion needs using data and insights.
Specialized Private Equity and Family Business Services
Select the leaders who will unleash the value of your investment based on action-oriented human capital due diligence. A separate team specializing in the unique dynamics of family-owned businesses can help proactively plan for your most critical succession needs.
WHY RUSSELL REYNOLDS ASSOCIATES
Guided by Experience, Strengthened by Data
Our three-pronged perspective of industry, functions and leadership provides you with invaluable guidance in the identification, selection, transition and development of C-Suite leaders to ultimately drive strategic advantage and accelerate long-term value creation.
C-Suite Expertise
Our data, insights and focus is specific to C-Suite executive leadership and the unique circumstances and challenges they face.
Our Leadership Span™ model puts a spotlight on the indispensable tensions that must be selectively emphasized – not traded off – in response to changing circumstances and volatile business conditions to ensure executives succeed over the long-term.
An Emphasis on Breaking Tradeoffs
A Relentless Focus
on the Leader
We guide individual executives through bespoke, immersive and experiential learning to accelerate their performance as they navigate transitions and prepare for new roles.
We provide Boards and CEOs deep insights on executive readiness based on potential, personality, external talent benchmarks and performance data.
Predictive Analytics For Boards and CEOs
470+
experienced consultants across 46 offices worldwide.