Pearson Partners’ Lisa Thompson, LPC, PCC, was a featured author on a recent AESC BlueSteps Executive Career Insider blog about how to move up to the C-suite in 2016. Below is an excerpt of Lisa’s article, with a link to the full article on BlueSteps. If you are a department head, vice president or director, now is a great time to start planning a move up to the C-suite in […]
Lisa Thompson, LPC, PCC – Managing Director, Professional Services When companies look ahead to 2016, managing global risk is one of the top priorities. There is plenty of uncertainty as C-suite leaders plan for the coming year, as discussed in our Q4 2015 Spotlight Series breakfast. While full-speed-ahead growth has been a primary theme in the past few years, a more cautious optimism seems to be the prevailing attitude at […]
With unemployment down and consumer confidence up, the economy has continued its slow and steady rebound in 2015. But as we head into an election year full of uncertainty, can we expect the positive trends in key economic indicators to continue? For Pearson Partners’ Q4 2015 Spotlight Series breakfast, we invited Justin Duke, CFA, Senior Wealth Manager for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, to share some economic insights as our keynote […]
A recent BlueSteps Executive Career Insider TweetChat featuring Pearson Partners’ VP Stephen Konstans and our team. [View the story “Executive Search and Your Financial Services Career” on Storify]
When a global membership organization needed two new and uniquely qualified chief operating officers within a three-year period, it turned to the same, proven executive talent resource both times: Pearson Partners International. Dallas-based Meeting Professionals International (MPI) is the largest global meeting and event industry association, with approximately 18,500 members belonging to more than 80 chapters and clubs in 22 countries. Having successfully employed Pearson Partners International to fill its […]
On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones average loses 1,000 points before making a rebound. Large companies are ramping up their cyber-security teams after several notable data hacks. In China, an economic slowdown has turned a market opportunity for many U.S. companies into a potential challenge. Across the world, droughts, floods and tropical storms—not to mention sociopolitical strife—have affected business operations recently. Clearly, we live in a time of great uncertainty, without a […]
When a private equity (“PE”) firm acquires a company, it does so with aggressive growth in mind. Growth happens through change, and successful change depends upon a strong partnership between the PE operations team and the management of the company it backs. Pearson Partners’ Q3 2015 Spotlight SeriesSM breakfast discussed how private equity firms and the management teams they work with build healthy partnerships. Our esteemed panel members included: Chris […]
