29 February 2024
Green Park Business Leaders Index 2024 | FTSE 350
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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
“A global talent advisory firm, Green Park is an industry pioneer in building diverse, senior leadership teams and more equitable workplace cultures.”
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Jo Heath, Managing Partner and Head of DICE
“Championing Diversity & Inclusion since our inception, we are driven by the core belief that there’s no shortage of talent, only opportunity.”
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Kai Adams, Managing Partner
“We deliver sustainable business value on a global scale to help organisations bring the future into focus.”
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Trevor Phillips, Chair
"Our clients benefit from our data-rich insights into what will drive productivity today and continue innovation through turbulence tomorrow.”
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Colin Salmon, Chair of the Green Park Foundation
“Through the Foundation, Green Park aim to deliver £1million of social value per annum to improving children lives and creating a more sustainable, equitable world”
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David Needham, Managing Partner
"Our candidate care lasts long past the point of placement and is key to the rich relationships we build from a foundation of trust, authenticity, transparency and inclusion."
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Raj Tulsiani, CEO & Co-Founder
“We founded Green Park in 2006 with a mission to change the face of leadership. We retain that same passion and entrepreneurial spirit today as when we started.”
Our latest report from Green Park and the World Retail Congress, “The DNA of Future Retail Leadership”, provides a thought-provoking and comprehensive insight into retail leadership and the skills, attributes and behaviours necessary to survive, and thrive in the changing future retail landscape. While we find that there is clearly a crisis in retail, with huge disruption and transformational challenges, there are also many opportunities to prosper.
This is not only our opinion – the strength of this report lies in its reflection of views from around the world. You will read, based on hundreds of interviews and our comprehensive survey of senior global retailers, about the consequences of tumultuous, technology driven-change for leadership teams everywhere. We are grateful for their frank views on the talent crisis among those charged with driving through necessary change.
The unvarnished truth is that while some retail businesses are winning through, many are not. Traditional retailers, in particular, are struggling to adapt at a time when the disruptors are moving forward at speed. The report shows that the cause of this difficulty lies in leadership - and this is why we wanted to facilitate this crucially important debate around the future of leadership teams, their culture and capabilities.
Change is accelerating and the challenges are becominsg tougher. Can retailers in difficulty survive and then thrive? Yes, they can. Among leadership teams, however, it is clear that a more collaborative and innovative mindset is needed to compete for customer attention and loyalty. Opportunities to understand the customer are being missed every day and leaders need to think and act very differently to give customers what they want, whenever and wherever they want it. To serve this end, there are clearly specific skills challenges, all addressed in this report, that need to be met within top teams around channels, data, digital, technology and products.
While there are many difficulties to be addressed, it is also true that every one of them today is a potential source of opportunity tomorrow. Retail leadership teams are great problem solvers – and now they need to prove their worth. Those with the ability to transform themselves can reap rich rewards.
