CEO Transitions

Fifty percent of CEOs fail within the first 18 months. CEO turnover is at an all-time high. Median CEO tenure has dropped by more than 20 percent over the past decade.

Whether you are a first-time CEO or a seasoned CEO, stakeholders give you nine months to develop a strategic vision and secure employee buy-in, 12 months to build the right leadership team, and 18 months to enhance the share price by executing that strategy.

We partner with you to address the key factors during your early CEO tenure and help you maximize performance and impact in the first 18 months – and beyond. With our comprehensive CEO transition advisory services, we help you navigate crucial decisions, prepare for key moments of your tenure, foster key relationships, and stand by your side in difficult and challenging situations.

Let’s improve the odds of your CEO tenure success.

CEO Transition Program

Life-changing. Pressure to perform. High risk of failure. Let us improve the odds of success in your CEO tenure with a customized CEO transition program.

We offer an incisive, tailored approach, leveraging insights from experienced global leaders to ensure your CEO performance is at its peak from day one. Over 18 months, you will collaborate with a team of four experts, including a former CEO. With unlimited 24/7 support, we help you prepare for spotlight moments such as board meetings, media briefings, and results presentations. We assist in navigating critical situations like relationship conflicts, decisions that fail, unexpected deviations from the plan, and addressing stakeholder expectations to foster key stakeholder relationships. Throughout the program, we bring CEOs from multiple organizations together for in-person learning, exploration, and development.

Our goal is to help you turn your first 18 months as a CEO into a long-term success story.

Who will you be as CEO in your first year—and beyond? Answering this question is a key factor in your success during your tenure. We help CEOs to define a single narrative and setting the way for who you will be as CEO?

Early CEO tenure is a time for boldness and clarity – a time when CEOs can express the purest form of their vision for the company and step outside their comfort zone or leadership style. We support you in strategic aspiration-setting, developing a CEO agenda, crafting CEO’s transformation agenda, to the tactics of planning the first week, month, 100 days, year and 18 month. We partner with you to prepare high-stakes occasions such as investor presentations, media briefings, results presentations, or town halls.

CEO Agenda &
Early CEO tenure

C-Suite Performance Review & Building a Leadership Team

Is your leadership team ready for success? To maximize CEO performance in their first year – and beyond – a high-performing C-Suite and executive management team is one of the most valuable key factors. Being a CEO is a team sport. Set up and aligned your team is crucial to succeed.

We evaluate the performance of your C-Suite and executive team as a whole and as individuals, review the composition based on the corporate strategy and CEO agenda, and build a picture of your future-ready C-Suite. We find the right leaders from inside or outside your organization to build a high-performing C-Suite and executive leadership team.

Prepare to win. Set your team up for success.

Build trust early. Cultivate relationships. Win alignment. Managing diverse stakeholder demands, creating organizational alignment, and cultivating a strong relationship with your board chair and other board members are keys to success in the CEO role – you are on a journey with the board!

We help CEOs draw the right conclusions from listening tours with employees, customers, regulators, the board, and other key stakeholders to create organizational alignment and foster board and stakeholder relationships. We partner with you to find the right balance between leading and being open to the board’s input, prepare board meetings, cultivating positive dynamics, and increasing productivity between the board and CEO.

Cultivate great relationships. Manage diverse demands. Be a catalyst for strategic advantage.

Board Alignment &
Stakeholder Relationship

Building CEO-Offices

Is your leadership leveraged for maximum impact? In the relentlessly fast-paced and ever-evolving business world, the role of CEOs is being redefined. Are you equipped to stay ahead? The transformative power of a CEO office in driving organizational success is more crucial than ever. These dynamic hubs are the epicenter of enhanced performance, strategic decision-making, and effective governance, adapting to and managing change with agility. Don’t have one? Others do!

Our proven expertise with world-class companies has refined our ability to architect CEO offices from the ground up, positioning them as pivotal elements of strategic value within your organization.

Imagine a dedicated operational center that not only bolsters the performance of your CEO agenda but also redefines decision-making processes for a global competitive edge.