CEO Performance

Shape a decade. Unlock high-end performance. Enhance impact. Leadership from the top is a challenge for everyone. For continuous and sustainable success, CEOs must lead with strategic foresight and navigate through complex risks, technological disruptions, diverse stakeholder demands, and unpredictable challenges. Our comprehensive CEO performance solutions are designed to empower CEOs to excel in every aspect of their role.

Our holistic approach combines rigorous evaluation with actionable strategies, providing CEOs with advanced tools and insights to lead effectively, drive organizational long-term success, enhance culture and stay ahead of the competition.

CEO Performance Review, Evaluation & Benchmarking

How will we measure CEO performance in the future? No incentive system alone can motivate your CEO to make better decisions. Performance reviews and robust evaluations are crucial defenses against profit warnings, high turnover in executive management, and loss of reputation.

Are lagging indicators such as financial results the right indicators in these changing times, or do you need leading indicators to better evaluate CEO performance? We develop and implement comprehensive CEO performance reviews and evaluations to enhance the effectiveness of your CEO performance early warning system. Our approach includes designing transparent evaluation processes that engage boards and CEOs to ensure buy-in and clarity. We define and optimize objectives, methods, and criteria for effective CEO evaluation linked to your corporate strategy, and benchmark CEO performance against industry standards, peer groups, and best practices. Additionally, we link evaluation results to CEO compensation strategies, succession plans, and development plans to drive deep cultural change in the organization through the example of the CEO.

Protect reputation. Drive organizational success.

Are you leveraging your leadership for maximum impact? With no peers, immense pressure, and accountability and transparency at the highest level, the CEO role is unlike any other in a company.

We empower CEOs to achieve continuous high performance across all elements of their role and enhance CEO effectiveness. Our comprehensive support is tailored to your unique needs and includes defining the CEO role, developing and executing the CEO agenda, aligning organizational goals with your vision, optimizing board engagement, evaluating and developing leadership teams, crafting a consistent strategic narrative for your tenure, managing stakeholder relationships, setting and establishing behavioral expectations, building and optimizing high-performing CEO offices, and refining personal leadership skills.

Stay ambitious. Maximize impact.

CEO Advisory &
CEO Excellence

CEO Transformation Support

Transform or fall behind. Are you ready to navigate large-scale change? The best CEOs know that in today’s rapidly evolving business world, transformation is the key to lasting success. Unprecedented speed can make or break a business.

For CEOs facing the challenge of leading large-scale transformations, we offer comprehensive support to shape and guide the process. While each client’s starting point is unique, typical engagements include Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), digital transformation, restructuring, portfolio value transformation, and organic growth. We work with you daily to provide strategic counsel as you navigate rapidly changing business challenges. We help define the overall aspiration, develop the high-impact change model needed to achieve it, clarify the roles of the CEO and top executive team in the transformation, and align and mobilize the organization to carry it out.

Lead and shape change. Turn challenges into triumphs.

Is your CEO compensation strategy driving performance? The impact of CEO performance on long-term value creation and business success is at an all-time high. There is increasing pressure from proxy advisors to make significant changes in CEO compensation strategies. We recognize that CEO compensation has become one of the most pressing issues for boards.

Simplifying and aligning CEO compensation with your company’s strategic vision is a key driver of long-term value creation and an opportunity to engage and build trust with your shareholders. Our approach centers on developing and optimizing compensation strategies that effectively translate your strategic vision into reality. While each client’s challenge in CEO compensation is unique, typical engagements include:

Align CEO compensation with corporate strategy and develop an integrated strategy-compensation process
Balancing short-term incentives “pay for performance” and long-term value creation “skin in the game”
Simplify complex CEO compensation structures
Evaluate and implement performance management systems
Bridging the gap between CEO performance and bonus payouts
Simplify performance metrics (targets and objectives)
Implementing forward-looking strategies for long-term bonus payouts
Developing CEO severance packages and retirement plans

We benchmark CEO compensation against industry standards and develop strategies that truly matter. By engaging stakeholders in the development process, we ensure buy-in and transparency. We design and structure compensation packages to align the interests of shareholders with those of the CEO. Our approach links performance metrics to the company’s overall strategies and goals, ensuring that CEOs focus on both short-term performance and long-term value creation. We also implement performance management systems to track progress and provide feedback.

CEO Compensation

CEO Development & Continuous Learning

Reflect. Learn. Perform. – and again. CEOs who are committed to personal development, continuous learning, and self-improvement significantly increase motivation within the organization and gain the trust of external stakeholders such as investors, customers, and regulators

The best CEOs are distinguished by their commitment to self-improvement and maximizing CEO performance. Be prepared for what comes next:

Building advisory boards: We craft advisory boards for CEOs that deliver independent insights, pioneering perspectives, and extensive networks to anticipate and navigate future opportunities and challenges.
CEO development plans: We design development plans and establish clear, measurable objectives for the CEO’s personal and professional growth. Our approach includes continuous assessment of progress through regular feedback and evaluation of set goals, and dynamic modification of the development plan based on received feedback and the changing needs of the organization.
Crisis simulations: Our in-depth crisis simulations prepare CEOs to effectively navigate through crises. Our realistic simulations address the most critical issues, including geopolitical risk, financial stability, reputation management, cybersecurity attacks, and data breaches.
Global network access: Our extensive global network allows us to provide access to world-class educational programs and peer learning groups. Discover the world’s most valuable educational programs, training, peer learning groups, and more.

Are you on the Path to Excellence?

CEO Performance Insights

CEO performance: Are you on the path to excellence? RefineValue is one of the world’s leading independent CEO advisory firms. Explore our latest insights and research on CEO performance and CEO excellence. Discover new perspectives that will help you shape a decade of high-end performance.