As well as mastering strategy and finance, business leaders today need to demonstrate they can do the right thing when it comes to their people and to major social, political and environmental issues.
The Covid-19 crisis has made this clearer than ever. In this process, HR and L&D functions have become crucial to business survival and the growth of sustainable leadership.
As with Covid-19, ESG issues are ultimately defined by their effects on people. It is crucial, then, that those responsible for the development of leaders and people within organisations play an important role in how companies emerge from the global pandemic.
Headspring, the executive development joint venture of the Financial Times and IE Business School, recently interviewed more than 350 senior HR and L&D executives from large corporations in Europe and the Middle East.
Our goal: to better understand how prepared CHRO, CLOs, directors and HoDs are for the development that is required in the domains of sustainable leadership.
