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. At Korn/Ferry International, we have been placing CEOs and directors for over 30 years –- a responsibility we do not take lightly.
Expanding the talent pool for CEOs and directors is imperative. Finding qualified individuals and recruiting them to serve in this new environment requires insight, creativity and finesse. Korn/Ferry meets this challenge with our CEO & Board Services practice. This is a dedicated team from the most senior ranks of the firm. Their work is with CEOs and in the board room, and their expertise is organizational leadership and governance. They conduct hundreds of director engagements every year, tapping talent from every corner of the globe. This work spans all ranges of organizational scale and purpose.
Each consultant offers specific industry and functional expertise and is a member of those corresponding practice teams. After determining a client’s needs, our consultants often team with colleagues who bring additional specific market knowledge and expertise critical for that search. When coupled with Korn/Ferry’s global reach, this collaboration generates enormous horsepower for CEO & Board Services solutions. It fosters creativity and diverse ideas and access to the information that uncovers excellent candidates.
Among the customized services that we provide is a Corporate Governance Audit, for example, which involves the evaluation of a client’s particular board policies and practices. The board’s size, composition, functional balance, and director compensation plan is evaluated and compared with traits of industry peers, particularly in relation to current “best practices.” This evaluation is followed by a candid assessment of those areas that require attention.
It is our ability to help plan senior leadership models, combined with tools that minimize many of the “unknown” factors in selecting individuals and our depth of resources, that results in the majority of our clients retaining us many times over for leadership engagements.
Korn/Ferry has long believed in the importance of including qualified individuals of different backgrounds among the candidates proposed for client engagements, and diverse candidates play an important role in the vast majority of our searches. Key assets in achieving these results include the Korn/Ferry consultants who comprise our diversity practice areas.
Should you be hiring the chief executive, filling public, private or non-profit board vacancies or building a board for a public company spin-off or emerging growth company about to go public, Korn/Ferry will deliver the best talent available.
