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  • Executive Talent 2025: What’s Now, New and Next in Global C-Suite Talent

    Executive Talent 2025: What’s Now, New and Next in Global C-Suite Talent

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    In 2016, our professional association, The Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), revealed trends in recruitment, retention and development of C-Suite leaders in its Executive Talent 2020 report. Three years later, the organization has revisited the framework of that report, having surveyed business leaders worldwide to better understand their top business challenges today and by 2025, how they currently use external advisors and how they plan to use them in the future, as well as how executive search and leadership consultants can better serve them.

    Digital Drives New Demand for Top Talent

    Karen Greenbaum
    AESC President & Chief Executive Officer

    image of trends in executive talent 2025Digital is driving critical demand for new talent. With all the focus on the disruptive technologies of Industry 4.0 in recent years, we find that there is an even more voracious need for talent in a “Business 4.0” environment.

    Business leaders understand that their organizations must be increasingly agile in order to seize the opportunities of digital and thrive in a rapid and often uncertain global business climate. They seek innovation and know that diverse talent is critical to bringing new perspectives and fresh thinking to their organizations, and they are increasingly looking to executive search firms to deliver it.

    They are also looking to the next generation of leaders for the talent they need. Organizations risk losing institutional knowledge and years of management experience as the Baby Boom generation exits the workforce in many markets around the world. Developing next gen leaders has come much more in focus as today’s C-Suite realizes they will need to expedite the growth of their successors.

    All of these key business issues are talent issues. As a result, there are win-win opportunities for increased partnership between business leaders and executive talent advisors.

    In this report, we share with you what we heard from business leaders about their needs today and by 2025. We offer insights that can help you strengthen your talent strategy and gain competitive advantage in the marketplace.

    Click the image below to read the white paper (PDF):

    image of PDF of executive talent 2025 white paper

  • Renee Arrington Receives Prestigious AESC Commitment to the Community Award

    Renee Arrington Receives Prestigious AESC Commitment to the Community Award

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    renee arringtonAward honors Arrington’s 25 years of leadership in executive search combined with a strong commitment to community service

    (DALLAS, Texas – May 31, 2018) – Pearson Partners International, a global executive search and leadership consulting firm, is pleased to announce that its senior vice president and director, Renee Baker Arrington, has been honored with one of the highest-level awards in the executive search profession.

    The Association of Executive Search and Leadership Development Consultants (AESC) bestows two annual awards: the AESC Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing outstanding contribution to the growth and development of the executive search consulting profession (won in 2013 by Pearson Partners Founder & Chairman Robert Pearson), and the AESC Commitment to the Community Award for leadership in executive search combined with a strong commitment to community service. This year’s AESC Commitment to the Community Award recipient is Pearson Partners’ Renee Baker Arrington.

    Arrington has worked in executive search for more than 25 years and contributes her time to numerous not-for-profit and civic organizations. In addition to serving on Pearson Partners’ board of directors, Renee serves on the board of directors of IIC Partners, one of the world’s top 10 executive search organizations, with 50 offices in 35 countries (Pearson Partners is a member of IIC Partners). Additionally, she serves on the boards of directors of the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM), the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) North Texas Chapter and the Foundation for the Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Fort Worth, where she serves as chairman of the board. She is an executive committee member of Dallas Executive Women’s Roundtable (EWR) and a member of Fort Worth’s Women Steering Business (WSB). Renee has previously served on the board of North Texas Public Broadcasting (NPR Affiliate) and was board chairman of the YWCA of both Fort Worth and Tarrant Counties and the Fort Worth Westside YMCA.

    “As someone who has built her career in this profession in retained executive search, it’s truly humbling that my name is now on a list among so many other leaders, colleagues and friends who have been recipients of this distinct award. I am also really proud that giving back to the community is one of the tenets of our firm at Pearson Partners,” notes Arrington.

    Arrington was also selected this month as a 2018 C-Suite Award Winner by the Fort Worth Business Press for her business leadership as well as the civic and social contributions she has made to the community of Fort Worth and its organizations. This award came from nominations by Fort Worth business leaders.

    “I regularly describe Renee as a process master, and she’s part of onboarding all of our new team members for that reason. In my years in this industry, I’ve never met anybody who is better at the process of filling a search,” said Pearson Partners’ president and CEO, Keith Pearson. “Renee truly has an endless capacity for giving back—not only to her work in our firm, but also to charities and civic organizations.”