Taking a non-finance position can offer aspiring CFOs many potential benefits, argues Russell Boyle, a consultant at Egon Zehnder International, New York, in CFO Magazine. “Because the CFO is increasingly focused on driving results across the company, we see a growing number of finance executives take on operational or business-line roles,” explains .... |
Carol SingletonSlade, a consultant at Egon Zehnder International, Houston, was recently invited to address a luncheon organised by the Women's Energy Network (WEN) at the Houston Petroleum Club. In her speech entitled "Ten-Year Talent Strategies-Shaping a Bright Future in Energy" SingletonSlade discussed the future of the industry, as well as the core .... |
Today’s CEOs routinely rank an understanding of talent issues as increasingly critical to their success as chief executives. By taking the groundbreaking step of making HR a fundamental part of the grooming process for promising leaders, companies have the opportunity to better prepare any eventual CEO to win on the decisive issue of talent, and to .... |
Vacancies at two prestigious cultural institutions in the Netherlands were filled recently with the help of Egon Zehnder International, after earlier similarly important cooperations in the cultural sector. Working on a partly pro bono basis, the firm’s consultants helped find a new chairman for the Nederlandse Opera, one of the world’s leading opera .... |