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Adult Development Theory is a key way to reduce employee turnover, improve interactions between CEOs and boards and integrate new employees.

There are fundamental challenges in the energy industry today on all fronts, which require new approaches and awareness for winners to identify and unlock the human power to drive it positively.

Read on for the key takeaways from an engaging discussion on the future of cultivating and transitioning leaders, from CEOs to board members.

Post-pandemic Retail is emerging to be a noisy place, and product relevancy has never been more critical, or more difficult, to achieve. Is your team equipped to manage the upheaval?

To help leaders think about succession planning in a more constructive way, we spoke with more than 10 CHROs and Heads of Talent about their succession planning practices. We discovered that the popular concept of “best practices” is misleading and too static, as those with even the most mature capabilities are also evolving and changing their approach. From these conversations, we developed six “better practices” to help guide our clients’ understanding and assessment of their own systems.

The search for the right Chief Product Officer is rarely straightforward. Often there is an understanding gap between the practitioners of the function and the businesses that hire them. Bridging that gap is the key to a successful CPO.

The COVID-19 crisis brought out the human side of leaders. Egon Zehnder share how executives are changing the way they lead, both now and post-pandemic.

While the Covid-19 pandemic hits and reshapes companies, industries, national economies, and our society in previously unthinkable ways, business leaders need to think beyond survival to the opportunities this crisis might create, not only for their own organizations but the greater good.

Egon Zehnder's Lindsay Trout discusses what's next for executives after the Covid-19 crisis

Tips to manage the anxiety of a fresh start in times of uncertainty and social distancing.

CEOs struggle with developing their leadership teams; boardrooms are living labs for leadership experimentation. Why CEOs should expose their senior executives to board work as part of their leadership development.

In an exclusive interview with the Swiss Handelszeitung, Egon Zehnder Chairwoman Jill Ader explains why the ability to self-reflection is one of the most important attributes of a successful leader.