How Diversity Drives Better Leadership and Business Performance Introduction The evidence is clear: companies with diverse boards and...

If you’ve ever engaged a traditional executive search firm (a.k.a. headhunter) to fill a senior role, you might have experienced some frustration. Perhaps you paid an eye-watering fee, only to be handed a shortlist of the “usual suspects” – candidates you could have predicted (or even found yourself via LinkedIn). Maybe the process felt slow and opaque, dominated by CVs and spiel about “extensive networks” but delivering underwhelming results. You’re not alone...

Groupthink is one of the biggest threats to leadership decision-making in financial services (FS). It occurs when teams of similar backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences fail to challenge each other’s assumptions, leading to stagnant thinking, blind spots, and costly errors.

It’s a simple question, but one too easily sidestepped: Whose job is it to build the board? And once it’s built—whose job is it to keep it effective?