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Future focused boards are an asset for any company. Board work today must balance issues from stakeholder value to compliance and from long-term value creation to diversity, sustainability and renewal. Additionally, many listed companies need to look at the composition of their boards in order to comply with new regulations.

 

Modern boards focus on sparring their leadership teams, while at the same time keeping a strict line of good governance. They work as tight, genuine teams, which requires a culture of inclusion, dialogue, support and collaborative behaviors representing diverse perspectives to topics on the board agenda.

 

Finding board members with the right qualifications and profiles is critical and the board composition must always reflect the real needs of long-term strategy, leadership and culture.

 

What brings Avant Advisors apart is our ability to help you identify the strategic board composition needs either for the longer term or for your immediate needs. Our board member search and succession services were designed to build future proof boards. We are specialized in supporting board diversity targets while maintaining full focus on complementary competence needs. Due to our long-term, hands-on experience with boards, we know what a good well-functioning board team looks like.

Organizations succeed with the right leadership. Requirements for leadership change rapidly making the review of current requirements versus existing talent a must for every leading organization. This must start from the top and often includes the CEO role. This is one of the most important tasks of any board.

 

The modern CEO profile defines leaders who can create meaningful purpose and engagement, transform businesses and organization and build inclusive teams, at the same time maintaining and driving business performance with humanity and sustainability. Best companies evaluate and grow their leadership bench internally and benchmark the strength externally.

 

Our CEO succession solutions combine leadership advisory, executive assessment and executive search capabilities. We can help you define and measure the leadership and talent you have, what talent will be needed to succeed in the future, how to develop the readiness of you key leaders and how to find a new external talent to lead your business to future success. We are ready to help with both immediate succession needs as well as preparing you for the future succession planning.

Good leaders are more than their positions. Their impact is not limited to the business results only, but on the entire environment where they operate. Recent research confirms that a significant success factor for leaders is their leadership versatility – their capacity to adapt their leadership styles and behaviors to rapidly changing situations. Companies that excel year after year and gain market share from their competitors have leadership talent that can lead with purpose and renew while driving performance, build inclusive, collaborative teams and nurture their people.

 

With our help, you can objectively identity those leaders who can best grow your business – and who grow with your business. We provide assessments focused on essential leadership competences, behaviors, values and motivators; leaders capable to lead in various situations specific to your business.

 

We help you make objective and bias-free talent decisions with confidence by using a multi-faceted set of methods tailored for the executive level. We are Hogan assessment certified and can help you with the choice of other suitable assessment methods.

 

Together we can create a specific plan for growing your current and future leaders and support you in translating assessment results to concrete actions with succession planning, learning initiatives and coaching.

In today’s complex environment, leaders do not build success alone. Highly effective leadership teams are essential for any company’s success. Good leadership teams need:

 

• Alignment with crystal clear vision and purpose

• Right composition and diverse profiles to execute strategy

• Effective ways of working for planning and decision making

• Healthy dynamics and psychological safety

• Effective and healthy communication

• Inclusive culture

 

 Leadership teams align goals, make decisions, decide on messages to be conveyed and critical tasks to be accomplished. Substantial value lies in uniting the right stakeholders unified with the same purpose, establishing an inspiring agenda and setting the speed for growth.

 

Whether your company is preparing for a period of transition or executing a strategic pivot, we specialize in unleashing the potential of teams by identifying critical areas that can drive substantial improvement both in team and business performance. Our tailored solutions empower you to adapt team ways of working, design team composition and roles and plan a journey towards targeted, impactful actions.