Our Most-Read Insights in 2023
2023 underlined the critical importance of getting it right when building leadership teams. As you plan for 2024, leaders are deciphering a myriad of data points to determine how to best approach the year ahead.
Here are some of our most-read insights from the past 12 months, covering key topics and trends across the executive talent landscape.
JM Search?Managing Partner,?Charles Egoville spoke to some top private equity Operating Partners to understand how they are approaching transition planning for their CEOs in these turbulent times, and they shared some interesting insights and best practices.
JM Search examined over 100 search placements within the healthcare sector, including over 600 candidates for roles including CEO, CFO, COO/SVP Operations, and Chief Commercial Officer to gain additional insight into who was being selected for specific roles and why. Our analysis uncovered some potential biases that if considered in the hiring process may improve how a company assesses and qualifies candidates against stakeholder needs and goals.
Having a diverse group of board members has proven to have a direct positive impact in a company’s bottom line. Still, women only hold?28% of board seats ?across all North American and European companies, and growth has slowed in recent years. Partner, Rebecca Miller spoke with several female executives who are currently serving as board members to learn more about their experiences ?and help other women secure board roles.
For any PE-deal, getting?the right leadership in place is critically important.?What follows are some frameworks and considerations we believe to be helpful in thinking through investing in talent and some observations from working with sponsors and executives in B&B scenarios.
In the first interview of JM Search’s "Women Rising Series", Principal Cathy Sutherland sits down with?Zena Srivatsa Arnold, the newly named Chief Marketing Officer of?SEPHORA?U.S. to speak about the successes and experiences that propelled her career forward, as well as the trials women in business continue to face.
Financial services firms must strategically differentiate themselves from the rest of the industry, whether that’s through new products, more competitive pricing, or by adopting tech-enabled services. But there is one time-tested way for firms to set themselves apart in a way that can pay dividends not only today but over the long haul: Talent.
In an increasingly data driven world, it is possible that the employee’s mindset remains a blind spot in the hiring process. We reviewed a sample of C-level placements made between 2019 and 2022 in an effort to see how first timers performed versus proven executives during a particularly volatile period – pre-, during, and post-pandemic.