The Revolving Door: Why Even Top CEOs Aren’t Safe
Executive roles are becoming less about vision and more about quickly delivered results. Here’s how you can build a team that rises to the challenge. If you’re a CEO right now, your position depends less on the vision you’ve outlined and more on the results you’ve produced in the last ninety days. In 2024, over 200 chief
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Rethinking The Leadership Pipeline: A Q&A With Shawn Cole At Cowen Partners Executive Search
With demographic shifts accelerating and C-suite succession planning under pressure, the leadership pipeline is starting to show real cracks. Executive search firms are feeling it from both ends, especially as senior leaders are aging out and top talent is becoming harder to source. The result is a brewing storm that is reshaping the economics, structure,
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Cowen Partners Ranks on List of Top Executive Search Firms
Hunt Scanlon Media’s 2025 Edition: The Select Guide to America’s Top 250 Executive Search Firms The executive search industry is growing as companies prioritize talent. Selecting the right recruiting partner is crucial in meeting human capital needs. Contrary to the past belief that bigger is better, firms of all sizes and specialties are now poised
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What to Look for in a Turnaround Executive
When a company reaches the brink of disaster, the board of directors often looks for a new CEO or CFO to step in and turn things around. Declining profits, loss of major customers, and a freefall in share price are all indicators that someone needs to step in fast or risk the company heading into
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Cowen Partners Executive Search Announces Appointment of John R. Reeves III as CEO of United American Indian Involvement (UAII)
Los Angeles, CA – June 18, 2025 – Cowen Partners Executive Search is proud to announce that United American Indian Involvement (UAII) has appointed John R. Reeves III as its new Chief Executive Officer, following a national executive search led by Cowen Partners in partnership with UAII’s executive search committee. With more than two decades
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CEO WORLD: How Public Scrutiny Can Make or Break a Company’s CEO Transition
Key Takeaways CEO turnover reached record highs, with 2,221 CEOs announcing their departures in 2024. This marks a 16% increase over the previous record of 1,914 CEO exits in 2023. In the fourth quarter of 2024 alone, 569 CEOs left their posts, up 3% from the third quarter and 16% higher than the same period the
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Cowen Partners Named to Private Equity Recruiting Power List
Hunt Scanlon presents its annual roundup of the 100 most prominent executive search firms in the private equity sector. Hunt Scanlon Media is one of the leading names in the senior talent management sector, with over 25 years in the business. The firm has global staffing intelligence data available in daily newswires, annual leadership and
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Cowen Partners Welcomes Shelby Varon as Director, Executive Search
Cowen Partners Executive Search, one of the nation’s premier executive recruiting firms, is proud to announce the addition of Shelby Varon (Drollinger) to its distinguished team of executive recruiters. Director, Executive Recruiter Shelby Varon Shelby Varon is an executive search professional with a strong track record of building senior leadership teams that drive strategic growth
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