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Family-owned businesses must acknowledge the importance of people and remuneration issues in companies to effectively fulfill their functions.

Egon Zehnder appoints Charles Gray as Co-Leader of U.S. CEO & Board Practice with Lisa Blais to leverage global best practices, perspectives, & tools.

Physical disability is often overlooked when it comes to diversity discussions, and most boards are still at early stages of maturity on the topic. We gathered some of the UK's top board chairs for an open conversation on the topic.

In this e-book, Dr. Moudy Elbayadi, author of Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone, offers a concise and practical playbook for boards of directors to improve their understanding of cybersecurity issues and challenges and prepare for potential attacks.

Egon Zehnder's Charles “Chuck” Gray will join Lisa Blais in co-leading the newly combined CEO and Board Practice, effective immediately.

President Lincoln appointed three of his rivals to his cabinet. To outsiders, this seemed like a dangerous move, and that’s a profile in courageous leadership. Does this present a functional framework for building Boards – or not?

At the board level there have been steady improvements in DE&I, 1 in 3 new hires being women and 27 percent of board seats being held by female directors globally, as found by our Global Board Diversity Tracker 2022-2023. Read about these three lessons to break barriers and advance female leadership in the boardroom.

We take a look at the board diversity landscape in Greater China and other countries and how gender diversity has impacted financial performance.

Since the turbulent summer of 2020, significant strides have been made across the world to diversify boards. The next level of the work is to move beyond counting numbers to reaping the business advantages of balanced representation.

Key insights from our nine-month Directors Development Program, a collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing to enhance boardroom effectiveness.

Boards are making progress in representational diversity—slowly. However, most boards in the UK and around the world are still overwhelmingly white. To discuss this sobering reality, we partnered with the Executive Leadership Council to gather more than 40 board-ready executives (majority of those ethnically diverse in the UK) to share their thoughts on increasing visibility, getting noticed, appointed and integrated into boards.

Executives discuss barriers like visibility and access to joining and driving inclusion in boards and strategies to overcome them.