Effective leadership renewal: your company’ s lifeblood

Leadership renewal is key to navigating volatility. Boards must evolve in order to tackle emerging challenges and secure long-term performance.

By Thabiso Legoete and Veronique Parkin, Partners at Heidrick & Struggles South Africa and Members of the Global CEO & Board of Directors Practice

When boards postpone renewal or depend too heavily on long-tenured perspectives, they risk retaining directors whose capabilities no longer align with the organisation’ s strategic needs.

Leadership renewal has become one of the defining governance issues of this decade. In a climate defined by geopolitical volatility, digital disruption, and heightened stakeholder scrutiny, there is growing recognition that leaders who ' d got companies to this point might not be the leaders who will take them forward into an uncertain future.

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