Conducting an Executive Search for a CEO with exemplary collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
The Brief
This iconic health service is an important and effective advocate for patients and their families with a particular focus on vulnerable children and increasingly, mental health in young people. As such, the Board sought a CEO who had a background in paediatrics and who would be champion for the voice of children and their families. The Board sought a CEO who had exemplary collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills and candidates who had a clinical background coupled with international experience were keenly sought after.
Candidate net Promote Score
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Candidates supported every year
We maintain genuine relationships with past candidates and continue to support them with leadership solutions long term, after they land their role.
Senior Women Appointed since 2002
Over half of the executive search assignments undertaken by our team have resulted in the appointment of outstanding female or LGBTQI+ leaders to high profile roles.
Candidate Retention Rate for 12 months since 2002
Our thorough briefing process and ability to engage passive candidates mean that we go to great lengths to find the right person for the role – long term!
The Process
Future Leadership™ assembled a specialised team, including the Health Practice Leader and an experienced researcher, to lead the search. Key steps included:
- Targeted Search and Talent Pooling: Future Leadership™ mapped top ranking paediatric hospitals around the world and approached selected leaders. Some were approached as Referral Partners and others were approached as prospective candidates.
- Comprehensive Shortlisting and Evaluation: The Selection Panel specified a number of capabilities from the Future Leadership Capability Framework for candidates to be assessed against. Future Leadership’s in house Organisational Psychologist prepared the assessments and presented the assessment reports directly to the Selection Committee.
- Panel Interviews and Strategic Presentation: Panel interviews were held with three candidates interviewed against specifically tailored questions.
Emerging Capabilities
Adaptability and Resilience
Demonstrating positivity, curiosity, resilience and the ability to pivot when confronted with change, pressure, adversity and disruption. Anticipates and enhances organisation’s capacity to respond quickly to strategic environmental, social and corporate challenges and opportunities.
Initiative and Drive
Leads self by working independently, setting and attaining personal and work related goals, and demonstrating motivation and responsibility for their own actions. Demonstrates awareness of personal strengths and improvement areas. Effectively relates to others in a professional manner.
Sustainability, Ethics and Integrity
Demonstrates the shift from ego-centric to eco-centric leadership. Showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to moral and ethical principles. Advocates for equitable values aligned to social, cultural, and professional standards of conduct. Fosters trust and promotes the concept of a social license to operate.
Culture and Engagement
Engages stakeholders inclusively with sensitivity and regard for diversity and facilitates a psychologically safe environment for social or cultural differences affecting behaviour.
Stakeholder Relations
Works strategically and systemically to encourage diverse thinking with all types of people. Actively contributes to teamwork, and deliberately builds relationships and networks across a range of people and communities.
Communication and Influence
Communicates with clarity and impact to facilitate individual and collective understanding, inspire action and enable information exchange. Leverages human-centric communication and storytelling to effectively influence stakeholders across the physical and virtual realms.
Innovation and Creativity
Positively challenges the status quo, expected norms, and workplace paradigms. Contributes new ideas, solutions, and perspectives to current challenges and thinking practices enabling the creation of new products, solutions and opportunities.
Systems Thinking
Systematically breaks down siloes across the operating environment and connects stakeholders to harness convergent ideas. Understands the leverage points of systems change and demonstrates the ability to think beyond known systems.
The Outcome
By the end of November 2024 the Selection Committee had interviewed the shortlisted candidates, and identified a preferred candidate. Future Leadership™ has undertaken rigorous 360-degree reference checks and presented comprehensive written reports to the Selection Committee. A public announcement is imminent.
The Executive Search teams targeted search and close collaboration with the health services leadership enabled an efficient and effective appointment process.
