Every August, South Africa observes Women’s Month, commemorating the historic 1956 march on the Union Buildings, when 20,000 women united to demand recognition and equality. Nearly seventy years on, a pivotal question remains for boards and executive search professionals: women have secured a seat at the table, so what comes next? Women in Leadership South […]

Ask any South African board member which appointment carries the greatest weight in the boardroom. Most will answer without hesitation: the Chief Executive Officer. Now ask which appointment receives the greatest scrutiny, the most rigorous process, the most structured assessment. The answer is usually the same. They would be wrong. The most consequential appointment a […]

There is a moment, usually somewhere between day 14 and day 30, when a new CEO realises that the organisation they accepted the offer to lead is not quite the organisation they were told about during the interview process. The strategy looks slightly different from the inside. The culture is more entrenched than the board […]