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Future of Leadership Series · Session 5

Changing a Leader Without the Market Finding Out

How to identify, assess and secure a new leader without unsettling the incumbent, the team or the market.

Thursday 22 October 4:00pm UK · 11:00am ET · 8:00am PT Virtual · one hour

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Leadership hire · outcome

CEO

Chair

Board

46% of leadership hires fail within 18 months — is your next one a coin flip?

10% of leadership teams say they're genuinely aligned on strategy (Gartner, Session 1).

40-50% of businesses have cut headcount in the last 18 months (Session 1).

15% of organisations do genuine strategic workforce planning (Gartner CHRO research).

38% of people on a formal succession plan didn't want the promotion (Session 3).

90senior leaders hosted

13countries represented

3sessions run so far

From aerospace and cybersecurity to life sciences and industrial manufacturing — company sizes from 30-person scale-ups to 100,000+ employee enterprises.

Sound familiar?

The leadership hiring gamble looks the same everywhere

Hiring your next leader on gut feel and a polished CV.

Tired of replacing leaders you only just onboarded.

Regrettable attrition that usually traces back to one wrong leadership hire.

Quietly having to unpick a promotion that isn't working.

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46% of leadership hires fail within 18 months. We asked 90 senior leaders how to beat those odds.

What three closed-door sessions have surfaced so far

“We have a lot of planes to land but only a couple of runways. The skill of being intentional is just as much about what we are NOT going to do as what we are.”

A US cybersecurity Chief People Officer, Session 1

Only 10% of leadership teams say they're genuinely aligned on strategy, and 70% of employees say their leaders send conflicting signals.

Gartner, Session 1

40-50% of businesses have cut headcount in the last 18 months. Only 5-10% have grown it significantly.

Session 1

Only 15% of organisations do genuine strategic workforce planning, despite 40% of CHROs naming it their #1 priority.

Gartner CHRO research, Session 2

38% of people on a formal succession plan didn't actually want the promotion they were being lined up for.

Session 3

What to expect

One hour. No pitch. Real conversation.

Small & senior

A deliberately small room

A closed-door group of senior leaders — not a webinar audience. Director / Head of level and above.

Candid

No panels, no slide decks

Just people who don't normally get to compare notes, talking honestly about what's working and what's broken.

Practical

Something to take back

Two or three no-budget actions you can run with your team within two weeks of the session.

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Join 90 senior leaders who've already had this conversation.

Seats are limited to keep the room genuinely small and diverse. Tell us a bit about you and we'll confirm your place.

Thursday 22 October, 4pm UK — virtual, one hour
Closed-door, off the record
Director / Head of level and above

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Changing a Leader Without the Market Finding Out

The leadership hiring gamble looks the same everywhere

One hour. No pitch. Real conversation.

A deliberately small room

No panels, no slide decks

Something to take back

Join 90 senior leaders who've already had this conversation.

Reserve my seat

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