Introducing Agile Leader Potential (ALP). A new breed of assessment that combines game and video-based analytics to help measure and enhance leader agility. Providing a fully digital series of challenges to assess, train and develop your leaders.

There are three things that successful boards do to help them lead through a crisis such as COVID-19 while thriving in the long term. They count on their purpose and values to guide their decision making for their organization and in the service of others. In addition, digital ways of working are incorporated to improve board communication, relationships and more effectively lead the organization. Finally, they embrace collaboration. Heidrick Consulting partner Alice Breeden discusses in more detail.

Succession planning in financial services has long been a priority. The unforeseen impact of the COVID-19 virus has shifted how organizations and boards plan for future leadership succession. Jenni Hibbert, Global Managing Partner of the Heidrick & Struggles Financial Services Practice, discusses the how the search for leaders who demonstrate authenticity, resilience, and the ability to speak to a purpose has changed and intensified throughout the pandemic.

John S. Wood, vice chairman at Heidrick & Struggles, speaks with Kerry Sulkowicz, managing principal at psychodynamic management consulting firm Boswell Group LLC and the president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association, about the benefits and drawbacks of conducting the senior-level hiring process remotely as well as a couple tips for clients on how to ensure they’re getting enough information to make these key decisions even when they cannot be in same room as the candidates. And though virtual interviews are qualitatively different, Sulkowicz says, they’re not inferior—in fact, they’re a useful way to evaluate a candidate’s ability to lead in a virtual environment.