Leadership Analytics: Predictors of CEO Success

Every organization wants to hire the best CEO for their journey ahead. But is it actually possible to predict CEO success?

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Far too many companies still base critical decisions about their next CEO on track record, gut-feel, and, yes, familiarity. We want to do more—and we believe we can do more.

In the Leadership Analytics Lab we seek to answer:

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Is there a link between CEO psychology and organizational performance?

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Which CEO traits have the biggest impact on organizational performance?

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Can we predict CEO candidates' likelihood of success?

The link between CEO psychology and organizational performance

We envision a future where we wield data the same way other industries do. A future where data analytics changes the rules of the game. A future where we centralize, anonymize, and analyze fields of psychometric data about CEOs and company performance to help organizations make even more refined decisions when selecting the right candidate for the top job.

We don’t know exactly where this journey to self-disruption will take us. Why? Because for decades, swathes of academics, consultants, and data scientists have tried (and failed) to prove a clear link between psychology and business success.

Yet we know that the organizations we work with are desperate to understand the secret sauce of what makes a great CEO. So, we are determined to embark on the journey.

The visionaries of the Leadership Analytics Lab

We’ll partner with clients, communities, academia, and non-profits to drive our mission forward and ultimately think differently about the future of leadership.

THE DATA SCIENTIST
Morten Sorensen
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

THE CEO
Constantine Alexandrakis
Russell Reynolds Associates

THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST
Tom Handcock
Russell Reynolds Associates

THE LEADERSHIP VETERAN
Dean Stamoulis
Russell Reynolds Associates

THE CMO
Amy Scissons
Russell Reynolds Associates

Leadership Analytics Insights

Why Leadership Advisory Hasn't Had its Data-Driven Revolution

This new era of leadership advisory is exciting. And we truly believe that by harnessing data we can help organization to better identify prime CEO candidates. But we know that we’ll face huge challenges along the way.

As part of our research, we’ve identified the roadblocks we need to address—and how we will clear a way forward.

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What we know: The state of predictive leadership analytics

We can’t create a plan for where to go without analyzing where we are. So, we look at what the world already knows (and doesn’t know) about the link between CEOs and organizational performance.

In this think piece, we explore what we found—and how we envision data analytics changing the game.

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About Leadership Labs

As the world spins faster than ever before, how do we know which trends are here to stay and which are fads? How do we know which skills to invest in and which ones to leave in the past?

We want answers. But we don’t believe in guesswork or crystal balls.

That’s why we created Leadership Labs.

In this dedicated innovation hub, we explore the new frontiers of leadership through advanced analytics, cutting-edge research, and real-word thinking from leading businesses and visionaries.

And we want you to join us on this journey.

Keep up to date with our latest breakthroughs here as we seek to challenge conventional wisdom and enter unchartered territories—for the good of leadership, business, and the planet.

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