This post originally appeared on Forbes on November 2024, 2025 Across global markets, the average tenure of CEOs is shrinking. Russell Reynolds Associates’ CEO Turnover Index shows that the window for chief executives to prove themselves is narrowing. “In 2023, CEOs who departed their role had been in seat for 8.4 years. However, we’re now at the stage where outgoing CEOs have been in their role for 7.2 years, and that tenure continues to go down,” says Laura Sanderson, who

This post originally appeared on Forbes on November 3, 2025 In a time when trust in business is declining — Edelman reports an “ unprecedented global decline for employer trust ” — and a general feeling of being aggrieved by our employer rises, how can leaders understand what is causing this reputation downfall? It’s easy to blame a bad product launch, a CEO scandal, or even a poorly timed statement on social media. News of mass layoffs, such as Amazon’s recent announcement t

This post originally appeared in Forbes on Sept 2, 2025. Nestlé has just dismissed its chief executive , Laurent Freixe, for having an undisclosed relationship with a subordinate. And July 2025 provided the kiss-cam moment seen around the world, when the CEO of technology company Astronomer and the company’s Chief People Officer (CPO) were caught in a passionate embrace. With the relationship also being an affair, many assumed both would be asked to leave as a matter of princ

This post originally appeared in Forbes on May 21, 2025. There is a large conversation about trust in generative AI, and KPMG’s latest...