C-Suite Roles

Dr Morgan R. Olsen is the Chief Financial Officer of the largest university in the United States, Arizona State University.

​​The Internet Retailer article, “Why Chief Digital Officers Are All the Rage,” quotes Russell Reynolds Associates’ ​ Margot McShane.​ ​​​ ​​She explains which types of candidates are in high demand right now.

The CFO Journal published a Q&A with Russell Reynolds Associates' consultant Jenna Fisher​. The article, "New Market Dynamics Bring Change to CFO Searches​," discusses the new trends in CFO searches. The article is excerpted below.

TRANSEARCH International recently conducted research on newly appointed executive officers (“CXOs”) and their diversity, or lack thereof. Researchers observed more than 3,000 hiring and promotion C-suite decisions from 2015, across ten industry groups and organizations of varying size.

At the 2016 CMO Summit, Spencer Stuart explored what skills chief marketers need to look for as they build best-in-class teams, ways to develop their marketing talent and how to build their own careers.

Chief Marketing Officers are becoming vital players in their CEOs’ success, with digital innovation and data analytics often playing key supporting roles, according to the Executive Monitor released today by Boyden global executive search.

​Russell Reynolds Associates’ Inside the Mind of...series addresses the leadership and behavioral attributes of various groups of executives.

Today’s HR team is responsible for tackling challenges as complicated and intermittent as CEO succession planning and process implementation, as strategic as executive compensation and talent acquisition, and as mundane and predictable as payroll, benefits administration and scheduling the company holiday party. Whether through its own lack of business knowledge and strategic initiative, or too broad a scope of accountabilities that often fail to distinguish the strategic from the tactical, today’s Human Resources function continues to get a bad rap.

The Russell Reynolds Associates database allows us to make statistically driven observations about the characteristics possessed by leaders in a particular field. Russell Reynolds compared 36 CMOs from companies totaling more than $1.5 trillion in market capitalization with our broader database of executives (as well as with chief executive officers (CEO) and other C-suite figures) on 60 psychometric scales from well-validated leadership assessments to understand on which scales the CMOs showed statistical differences from the other populations.