Salt Lake City Executive Search

Spiceworks tapped Shawn Cole, president and founding partner of Cowen Partners Executive Search, for a deep look at how the Chief Information Security Officer role has evolved from breach cleanup into one of the most strategic seats in the enterprise.. Shawn’s contribution captures why the role now commands boardroom attention. As he tells Spiceworks, the

Fortune’s CEO Daily dug into a trend that keeps showing up in corner offices, from Cracker Barrel to Verizon to Boeing, and turned to Shawn Cole, President of Cowen Partners Executive Search, to explain what’s really driving it: boards are increasingly reaching for retired CEOs because their own pipelines have run dry. In the piece

CFO Brew opened its latest piece on the future of the finance function with a warning from Shawn Cole, President of Cowen Partners Executive Search: a serious crisis is building in the C-suite pipeline, and there simply aren’t enough Gen X and millennial leaders coming up to fill the seats. In the article “The CFO

Shawn Cole, President and Co-Founder of Cowen Partners Executive Search, published a new op-ed in governance publication Boardroom Pulse examining what Nike’s decision to bring back a retired insider as CEO really says about the state of its leadership bench. In the piece, “Nike’s Boomerang CEO: Why a Workplace Reckoning is Proof of an Empty

After a few brutal years of CEO churn, boards are finally exhaling, and Agenda, the Financial Times governance publication, turned to Shawn Cole, President and Co-Founder of Cowen Partners Executive Search, to explain what’s really behind the shift. In the article “Boards Give CEOs a Chance to Make Their Mark This Year,” written by Lindsay

When Adidas named a 25-year company alum as its next CFO and its shares slid about 11.5% the same day, CFO Dive asked Shawn Cole, President and Co-Founder of Cowen Partners, to read the signal underneath the hire. His take, from the article by Senior Editor Maura Webber Sadovi, gets at a tension a lot