The Future of Executive Search
Executive search now operates in a world of AI-driven candidate discovery, abundant data on people, and predictive analytics, changing how leadership talent is found, assessed, and matched. This keynote gives search leaders a clear view of what changes, what AI takes over, and where the consultant’s judgment becomes the whole of the value.
Ross Dawson has worked with firms across the major professions, including executive search, leadership development, and recruitment.
Keynote overview
- A hyper-connected world. Social platforms, abundant data on people, and predictive analytics change how leadership talent is discovered and assessed.
- Humans + AI in search. AI reads the whole visible market and takes on sourcing, screening, and research, while judgment on fit, motivation, and risk becomes the consultant’s distinctive contribution.
- Executive leadership shifts. Organizations are becoming more networked and transforming through technology, changing what leadership itself requires.
- Mobility evolves. Global executive mobility is evolving as talent seeks different qualities in work and location.
- Firms as networks. At their core, search firms are networks that match capabilities to opportunities.
- Beyond the brief. Helping clients think beyond the brief, and developing new approaches to executive discovery.
- Matching for the future. Data-driven insight into talent lets firms match on future needs and capabilities, and helps clients implement talent strategies from where they will be rather than where they are.
Who it is for
Executive search partners and leadership teams building the executive talent platforms of tomorrow.
Recent keynotes
- Opening keynote, global partner conference of a leading executive search firm
The keynote closed with strategic questions for the partners to discuss during the event, which aligned with the issues raised in the executive committee’s meeting the day before, and a sustained discussion afterwards framed the key issues for the rest of the conference.
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Tailored to your audience
Every keynote is tailored to the client, audience, and event. Ross has delivered keynotes and strategy sessions in 35 countries.
