Interim Leadership, Lasting Impact: Why Forward-Thinking Organisations Are Turning to Interim Solutions
In today’s operating environment, impact-driven organisations are navigating an unprecedented convergence of complexity including funding volatility, shifting stakeholder expectations, governance pressures, and rapid transformation agendas. For boards and executive teams, the question is no longer whether change will happen, but how quickly leadership can respond. Yet beneath these strategic challenges lie very real, immediate pain […]
When Governance Fails, Everything Else Does Too-We Built a Playbook to Fix It
Across the development sector, governance is the variable that determines everything else: whether an organisation can make a fast decision in a crisis, whether a Board can hold a CEO accountable without the relationship breaking down, whether a donor, a member state, or a community actually trusts what they are told. And most importantly, it […]
Cuando la búsqueda ejecutiva define la estrategia: lecciones de liderazgo en la transformación digital en América Latina
La transformación digital en América Latina no es solo un desafío tecnológico, sino de liderazgo. Este artículo explora cómo la búsqueda ejecutiva puede ayudar a estructurar liderazgos capaces de sostener el impacto en entornos complejos y cambiantes. La transformación digital en el sector público en América Latina y el Caribe no es solo un […]
When Executive Search Shapes Strategy: Leadership Lessons from Digital Transformation in Latin America
Digital transformation in Latin America is not just a technology challenge—it is a leadership one. This article explores how executive search can shape leadership structures that drive sustainable impact across complex and evolving political environments. Digital transformation in the public sector across Latin America and the Caribbean is not primarily a technological challenge. It […]
2025 in Review: Resilience, Realignment, and Renewed Purpose for 2026
As we step into 2026, we’re reflecting on a year defined by contention, disruption, recalibration, and extraordinary perseverance. Across the impact landscape 2025 challenged long-held assumptions about how progress is made, and who is included in shaping it. Yet it also revealed the strength, creativity, and determination of organisations and leaders committed to building a more equitable world. Their courage and clarity have been a source […]
Stop recruiting board members. Start recruiting board leaders.
Hope is not a strategy! The boards that navigate complexity, drive transformation and prevent crises are rarely the ones with the most credentials. They are the ones with people who can lead in the boardroom, who can influence without authority, see around corners, and hold the organisation to account while stewarding its mission with courage […]
How executive search really works (and what clients often don’t see)
The Human Core of Executive Search Executive search has long been misunderstood. Many assume the process is little more than pulling names from LinkedIn, relying on personal networks, or sending a stack of CVs to a hiring leader. In truth, the reality couldn’t be more different. What seems like a simple matchmaking exercise is actually an intensive, relationship‑driven discipline […]
From Belém to the Boardroom: How COP30 Redefines Leadership in Development
COP30 arrived in Belém this past November with expectations higher than the forest canopy surrounding it. For the first time, a COP landed in the Amazon, a choice that was both politically strategic and symbolically unavoidable. The Amazon wasn’t a backdrop; it was a warning. And in many ways, COP30 reflected that same dynamic: a […]
The new partnership-led global health architecture: implications for talent and organisational effectiveness
A world at a turning point Every year, more than 3.3 billion people, over 40% of the world’s population, face heightened health risks due to climate change, according to The Rockefeller Foundation. At the same time, the World Health Organization reports that donor contributions to low-income countries have stagnated or declined, even as demand for […]
Procurement that powers impact: how smarter practices unlock partner potential
$212.1 billion. That was the level of official development assistance in 2024 (OECD), channelled through thousands of programmes and suppliers across the world. Within the UN system alone, procurement runs to tens of billions of dollars annually. Yet behind these recent headline numbers, many organisations are operating in a tighter fiscal reality today. Budgets are under pressure, unrestricted […]