Thalvern Insights

Perspective on leadership, markets, and consequential decisions.

Research-informed commentary for boards, CEOs, investors, and senior leadership teams. We publish selectively.

Executive Search

Defining the leadership mandate before the search begins

Most difficult searches are not talent problems. They are definition problems. A precise mandate is the highest-leverage stage of the process.

Board Leadership

Boards increasingly recruit against forward strategy rather than historical committee structure. What that changes about director search.

Private Equity

Why the first hundred days of a portfolio company leadership appointment determine so much of the eventual outcome.

Next step

Executive search intelligence, leadership trends, compensation insights, and talent market perspectives.