Thought Leadership

Reflecting on 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025: Sustainable Packaging

The packaging industry is currently navigating several significant challenges as businesses strive to stay competitive amidst ongoing market headwinds and a complex value chain. Key…

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Reflecting on 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025: Trade Associations & Memberships

As we reflect on the past year, it is evident that 2024 was a pivotal year for membership associations, trade associations, and professional bodies. The…

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Reflecting on 2024 and Looking Ahead to 2025: HR Leadership

As we move into 2025, we are reflecting on the predictions we made for 2024 and how they have unfolded. Our consultants in our HR…

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2024 Reflections & 2025 Predictions Series: The Grand Challenges Higher Education can help solve in 2025

Higher education has always reflected the societies it serves – their ambitions, anxieties, and contradictions. But in 2025, it feels like something more: the key…

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The UK’s AI Ambitions Depend on Attracting Top Academic Talent

Today’s announcement of the UK government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan underscores a bold ambition: to establish Britain as a global leader in artificial intelligence. The…

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5 HR Roles in Digital Transformation

Increasingly HR leaders are playing a key role in shaping and driving digital transformation in organisations.  Between 2006 – 2022 I was a HR professional…

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Building a Values-Driven Career: Lessons from Bernadette Thompson

Hannah Wade, Associate Partner, and Corinne Attwood, Senior Researcher, in our Healthcare Practice, recently sat down with Bernadette Thompson, Executive Director of Equality, Diversity and…

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The Future of Diversity and Inclusion in Leadership

As an executive search professional, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) considerations have been central to my career since the get-go.  Having worked for the Odgers Berndston…

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In light of the new Government, Should We Revisit the Place and Making Institute but on a Regional Scale?

The recent UK government budget has placed a strong emphasis on jobs, growth, skills, and the critical challenge of building houses and infrastructure. This focus…

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How Leadership Expectations Have Evolved

Over the past two decades, the expectations placed on retail leaders have undergone significant transformation. From the traditional routes to leadership to the constantly changing…

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The Vital Role of Growth-Stage Leaders in Clean Tech: Challenges, Opportunities, and Attraction Strategies

As the global economy accelerates its transition to sustainability, the clean tech sector is emerging as a key driver of innovation and growth. Companies in this…

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Effective Leadership Models in the Higher Education Sector

As executive search consultants, we specialise in supporting to you appoint high quality leaders for your institution, but no two leaders are built the same,…

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