Executive Team Effectiveness
An effective executive does not have to be a leader in the conventional sense. Instead, they are skilled individuals who know how to exploit group potential by tapping into the...
Board Diversity Beyond Gender
In the boardroom or in management settings, we often fail to acknowledge the benefits of diversity in multiple forms. Going beyond gender diversity, a full spectrum of diversity ca
Six Key Elements to Effective CEO Succession
There have been numerous studies showing CEO succession is a complicated process and that more than half of all leadership transitions fail. For this reason, a CEO succession plan
Can anyone be a CEO?
Can anyone be a CEO? What characteristics makes an ideal leader? James McLaren, Managing Partner and Founder of Sterling Black, explores this and more in the Future Women Leadershi
Why would anyone want to be a Chair?
It’s all fun and games until the Chair’s head is on the chopping block, so why put it there in the first place? As the recent Royal Commissions swept through corporate Australi
When the values of the Chair destroys company value
Only a few bright sparks saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. And no one saw the COVID-19 pandemic event coming. So for most of us, they were particularly catastrophic Black Swa
There’s only one decision that matters – CEO succession
If CEO succession took its cues from nature, we would be faced with a primal process. Picture two candidates circling each other, circling and swooping like eagles, poised to fight
Why every company needs to conduct a Board assessment review
Do you regularly conduct a board assessment review of the capability of your Directors? Industry experience? Tick. Gender quotient? Tick. Taste for lamingtons? Tick. Unfortunatel
Board effectiveness: Are you running the board or is Management running it for you?
We’ve all heard tales of Deutsche Bank’s uncomfortable demise. From a well-respected institution, the German powerhouse allowed a series of hasty cowboys to wrestle control of