Notes on leadership, governance, and talent from fifteen years of retained search work in Saudi Arabia.
The mandates crossing our desk today look different from those of a decade ago — more localisation requirements, more mandate for transformation, less tolerance for caretaker leadership.
Generational handover is the single most common reason family-owned conglomerates in the Kingdom engage a search firm for board-level appointments.
IPO-readiness programmes have created sustained demand for CFOs who can operate as true strategic partners to the CEO, not just financial controllers.