Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaA leader can be highly successful in a functional role and still face new challenges when promoted to a broader leadership position. A successful sales head moving into a business head role, for example, suddenly needs to think about finance, operations,...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaIn today’s fast-moving business environment, leaders are expected to make clear decisions under pressure, manage uncertainty, inspire teams, and deliver results consistently. For senior leaders facing complex organizational change, market disruption, or board-level accountability, executive coaching services can be a...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaWhy more Indian boards are treating interim leadership as a deliberate strategy, not a stopgap In my years leading executive search and leadership advisory work, I've sat with boards mid-crisis asking a version of the same question: we need a leader in this...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaExecutive coaching helps leaders improve workplace management by giving them something almost no one else in their organisation will — an honest, structured mirror on how their behaviour actually lands on the people around them. In two decades of executive search, I've seen coaching...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone India Executive decision making is the process by which C-suite leaders navigate high-stakes, often ambiguous choices — under time pressure, with incomplete information, and with consequences that compound across the entire organisation. It is also, in 2026, one of the most visible...
A Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) is the senior-most executive responsible for an organisation's people strategy — spanning talent acquisition, culture, workforce development, succession planning, and increasingly, enterprise-wide transformation in the age of AI. The role has always been important. In 2026, it is arguably the most complex and contested seat...
Leadership and personality development is the deliberate process of building the mindsets, behaviours, and capabilities that enable executives to perform at their highest potential — and translate that performance into measurable business outcomes. Many organisations now complement these initiatives with executive coaching services to create more personalised and measurable...
Identifying the right succession candidates is only half the challenge. Evaluating them with rigour and objectivity is the other — and it is where most organisations fall short, even for executive search firms in india that operate at the highest levels of leadership hiring. Earlier in this series, we covered how...
Leadership transitions at the top are among the most consequential — and least prepared-for — moments in an organisation's life. Here's why partnering with a specialist executive search firm can mean the difference between continuity and chaos. The stakes A Leadership Void at the Top Costs More Than You...
What gets measured gets managed — and what gets assessed with rigor gets hired with confidence. Cultural fit is simultaneously one of the most cited hiring criteria and one of the least rigorously assessed. At the executive level, this inconsistency is particularly costly. Organizations often rely...
