CEO Recruiters

CEO executive search for companies based in North America, Western Europe, and Australia

The role of Chief Executive Officer has become an inherently more collaborative position in recent decades due to a host of technological, structural, and societal factors. In order to fully realize a company’s full potential, it’s become essential to have a leader who can effectively delegate crucial planning and tasks to specialists who can be trusted to provide sound solutions that will help propel the overall vision of the CEO forward on the proper path. Most importantly, they must be able to provide greater transparency and open communication at all levels of the organization in order to keep employees, stakeholders, and boards happy and thriving.

The average tenure for a CEO has fallen to slightly less than 5 years – a number that is down substantially from almost 10 years at the beginning of the 2000’s. There certainly are still those individuals who remain in place long-term, but current sensibility should cue those involved in corporate function to expect about one half decade of service before the primary corporate leader seeks new challenges or is encouraged to depart due to various reasons. Given this shift, it will be exceptionally important to have a sound succession plan in place, utilize the services of an interim executive, or work with a professional recruitment firm to ensure that any Chief Executive Officer transition is as cohesive, streamlined, and productive as possible.

Well-developed soft skills have become a required component of CEO searches for many organizations
We’ve always made certain to include an in-depth assessment of these abilities as part of our recruitment evaluation when presenting candidates to companies given the correlation between these developed traits and long-term success. However, there has been a very pronounced shift in upfront prerequisites, particularly as the pandemic surfaced and the Great Resignation began to make an appreciable mark on the technology industry. Rigid, top-down management may still provide adequate function in certain environments, but the overall demand by ventures and employees is for leaders to have an array of skills and approaches to management that maximize many of the following:

• Empathy
• Self-awareness
• Open communication
• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Conflict management and resolution
• Emotional intelligence
• A collaborative mindset
• Willingness to decentralize leadership functions
• Negotiation
• Transparency

CEO’s who embrace and maximize these and other relevant competencies will be in higher demand and have an inherent advantage when assuming a leadership role with a company. It will also be essential to have a strong understanding of the manner in which organizational change has been irrevocably altered following the pandemic.

Chief Executive Officer headhunters
The CEO recruiters at Renascent Solutions have been helping companies locate and hire exceptional corporate leaders for over 20 years in an array of technology-related sectors. Our retained approach is unique in the industry (Retained Recruitment), and our ability to locate and prompt superb leaders to take on a new position is unmatched.