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Wow! Our latest IX Communities Open Access online event was effectively standing room only. Huge shout out to Jimmy Gould, Head of Executive Recruiting at Anthropic, for an outstanding presentation on the Anthropic TA team's AI experiments — their early successes and what they're still figuring out.Jimmy started with their north star: give back time, don't automate judgment. The design principle t

So much of a new leader's success is about the dynamics of the team they are being parachuted into, as well as their relationship and 'fit' with their new boss, rather than just their own skills & abilities. For last week's ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Member Meeting we were joined by ex-ESIX member and long time recruiting leader, Steven Davis, along with his colleague, Juliana She

Our ESIX London Roundtable highlighted a significant tension happening right now. On one hand, in-house exec recruiting teams are being expected to act as strategic advisors: shaping demand, influencing talent decisions, and bringing real market intelligence to the table. But on the other hand, in these ‘do more with less’ leaner times, as hiring volumes increase and complexity rises many teams ar

Corporate exec recruiting Research & Talent Intelligence teams are moving towards more of an advisory role and away from traditional manual research, mostly thanks to AI, and the function's future might look more like business consulting than recruiting.Our quarterly ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Research Roundtable discussion focused on "Using Talent Intelligence to Shape Pipelines

Although AI is receiving practically all of our attention these days, the consensus opinion during our recent TLIX: Talent Leader Information Exchange Deep Dive on Sourcing was that it’s not yet living up to its promised potential.We started by reviewing industry expert predictions that a majority of TA leaders plan to add autonomous agentic AI agents in 2026. But, five months into the year and we

To kick off our ESIX Chicago Roundtable last week, we were lucky enough to hear from Rick Zalewski, Senior Director of Executive TA and Talent Intelligence at Stryker, all about his exec recruiting function's journey. One of the themes that he brought up, and which continued throughout the day, was focusing on rigorous assessment and execution to enable us, and our business leaders, to have high c

TA leaders must frequently pivot from being strategic predictors of the future to expert tacticians tasked with ensuring tools and processes are optimized for global organizations. As was the discussion we held recently.In our TLIX: Talent Leader Information Exchange Leaders-Only session last week, the group started by helping a leader who wanted to hear how others have configured Workday for UK-b

Talent Acquisition is not navigating a single transformation, but several at once: globalization, centralization, enterprise alignment, and rapid AI adoption, all happening simultaneously. This isn't news, but according to the folks dealing with this 'at the coalface', there's a high risk of burnout of their teams, and helping them through that is definitely front of mind.At last week's TLIX: Tale

If anyone has figured out a quick way of measuring 'Quality of Hire' (quicker than 12-18 months for good quality data) - please let us know! Metrics, KPIs, and data in corporate executive recruiting were the focus of last week’s ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Member Meeting. Members shared how they are currently measuring performance of their teams, including recruiters and researcher

Corporate executive recruiting is rarely only focused on recruiting, as evidenced by our lengthy discussion on executive onboarding last week.In our ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Leaders-Only sessions last week we spent quite some time talking about exec onboarding, one of the many areas that corporate exec recruiting leaders get more and more involved in. Our role touches so many as

Commitment to diversity recruiting continues to be high, even if formal structure is low - this was the broad view when diversity recruiting was the topic of our recent TLIX: Talent Leader Information Exchange Deep Dive. One member shared an AI tool they’re looking to implement later this year that will stack rank candidates so selection can theoretically be handled more objectively, while also he

How different companies structure in‑house executive research and talent intelligence functions was the topic of last week's ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Member Meeting. Though it was mostly an open discussion rather than a traditional panel format, a few members kindly shared what their model looks like, and we were lucky to hear from this fantastic four: Carol Piggot of US Bank, E

Along with comparing AI-based exec recruiting sourcing tools, our member Leaders also discussed partnering more effectively with search firms when we use them, assessing for AI competency, learned about a highly-focused talent intelligence framework.In last week's ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Leaders-Only sessions we held lengthy discussions about not only the tools that AI is now b

Last week our Leaders‑Only sessions dug into CRM's, assessment tools, AI (of course!) but also how to future-proof the corp exec recruiting function overall.Our ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Leaders compared approaches to presenting candidate assessments to hiring managers, including how some teams are standardizing executive‑level deliverables and using AI to improve clarity and con

In Singapore last week we covered a huge range of topics, from getting more involved in org design & new role development, to hiring for AI-capable leadership, and that evergreen favorite - tips for recruiting in Japan!After the outstanding Yuting G. of Haleon shared about their function's overview and plans at the ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Singapore Roundtable, participants shar

AI is being used in corporate exec recruiting more and more - but not across the board.We were recently joined by a group of senior in‑house executive recruiting leaders for our ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange London Roundtable. After an amazing share from the wonderful Sarah Sanderson of Expedia about how her function has evolved over the years, and how agility and change is the order

In our TLIX: Talent Leader Information Exchange New York City Roundtable last week we were lucky enough to hear from the outstanding Lebo Mosese who shared Cummins’ future state recruiting operating model and their plan to build the capacity to achieve it. In the general roundtable discussion, AI came up a lot (as usual) in terms of: the risks associated with using it; trying to get AI projects an

TLIX members are spending less time speculating about AI and more time comparing real approaches and ROI.Our recent TLIX: Talent Leader Information Exchange Leaders-Only Connect opened with a discussion about how our members are approaching agentic AI adoption. Most are in the exploration phase, focused on being informed and intentional before scaling. Meanwhile, they’re also watching how other HR

For our recent ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange New York Roundtable we were lucky enough to be hosted at the Rockefeller Center by the outstanding Joerg Ziegler and Amanda Lieberman of NBCUniversal. They kindly shared their function's journey from startup to super-sophisticated in 15 years, delivering great results and huge impact, and dazzled us with what is clearly a benchmark functio

Last week's ESIX: Executive Search Information Exchange Member Meeting focused on integrating external executive recruiting with succession planning, with outstanding sharing from Mara Riordan and Mike Ballenger who shared their experiences at Target and Charter Communications respectively. The discussion explored challenges around gaining access to the necessary data to set up such programs, inte