Leadership, it's been said, is the single most important contributing factor to an organization’s success. In today's business environment, maintaining strong governance is no longer an option and identifying, recruiting and developing leaders is an ongoing challenge.

Expanding the talent pool for CEOs and directors is imperative. Easy to say, but how do you do it?

What are the issues regarding a board’s size, composition, functional balance, and director compensation plans? What are the current “best practices” for boards of directors when searching for a new CEO?

Managing a consumer-driven business in today's environment is not for the timid. Today's global customer base requires a multi-faceted approach to sales and marketing. The Internet adds numerous opportunities - and challenges as a company builds its relationships with its constituencies. And, competition for the attention and spending power of customers is unrelenting, requiring organizations to be well versed in the areas of supply chain, product development and increasingly, sustainability. Consumer company executives must be experienced leaders, highly focused but equally flexible and creative.  

The world of financial services is as diverse as the clients they serve and the markets in which they operate in, with each requiring a comprehensive human capital strategy for their own employees. These strategies must rest upon a rich blend of effective, results-oriented experience-tested advice concerning organizational structures, compensation norms and trends, assessment, coaching, and market knowledge. 

Healthcare organizations cover a wide range of diverse organizations: hospital systems, multi-specialty physician practices, pharmacy benefit management companies, long-term care/assisted-living companies, home health companies, healthcare associations, and other service delivery companies.

How do you secure and develop top talent? Are there special issues in the talent management processes for such a diverse set of organizations?

The global industrial marketplace is undergoing a remarkable and historic transformation spurred by exciting new advancements in technology, the powerful growth of emerging markets, accelerating innovation and the growing complexity of supply chains serving customers in every region of the world.

Never has the need for innovative, global and experienced executive leadership been in more demand but also in such short supply. In virtually every region of the world organizations are now challenged with the issues of talent acquisition, retention, succession and development like never before.

In no other global economic sector are science, technology and society converging to create new business models and market demands than in the area of the life sciences.

Life sciences companies today are coping with ever-changing trends, including funding and managing the long development cycle for products, responding to the rising demands of emerging countries and balancing the needs of the world’s changing demographics.

As the industry responds, organizational leadership is the key.

The pace of change in business is increasing at an unprecedented rate and a key component of this change is the rapid advancement in technology. Within the technology arena, Korn/Ferry thought leadership focuses on how companies compete to be the leader within their chosen sector and how talent and human capital is helping to power the technology revolution.

The world of financial services is as diverse as the clients they serve and the markets in which they operate in, with each requiring a comprehensive human capital strategy for their own employees. These strategies must rest upon a rich blend of effective, results-oriented experience-tested advice concerning organizational structures, compensation norms and trends, assessment, coaching, and market knowledge.