NEW YORK, Aug. 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Heidrick &
Struggles (NASDAQ: HSII), a premier provider of executive search,
leadership consulting and culture shaping worldwide, has expanded
its global client service capabilities with the addition of The
Corporate Lab®. The firm also announced that lab founder Brian
Klapper has joined Heidrick & Struggles as a principal in its
advisory business, Heidrick Consulting.
The Corporate Lab, developed with innovation experts from the
renowned MIT Media Lab, will enable clients of Heidrick &
Struggles to accelerate the speed and scope of organizational
change as they engage in a series of rapid, game-changing process
improvements. The Corporate Lab features a unique method that
brings together a cross-functional team from the client in a
two-day laboratory session leading a model company through a
business transformation. The team then returns to apply what they
have learned to a problem that the company has repeatedly tried to
solve without success—typically resulting in a working pilot within
30 days.
"New CEOs and other senior leaders must perform against high
expectations almost from the beginning of their tenure. They are
expected to deliver tangible progress on previously intractable
problems—and do it quickly," said Krishnan
Rajagopalan, President and CEO, Heidrick & Struggles.
"New leaders need a proven approach to deliver quick results, and
that is what The Corporate Lab provides."
The Corporate Lab aligns well with Heidrick & Struggles'
leading culture shaping client service.
"People in thriving corporate cultures can best respond to a
CEO's transformation agenda," said Mike
Marino, Executive Vice President and Managing Partner –
Culture Shaping at Heidrick & Struggles. "We know from
experience that a company that embarks on a journey to change its
culture needs to exercise its new muscles. The Corporate Lab
inspires enterprise-wide belief in, and passion for, meaningful
change initiatives that lead to transformation."
The Corporate Lab provides the means for employees to think
differently about how to approach problems that they have resisted
solving in the past.
"Teams can't get to innovative solutions by thinking the same
old way," Klapper said. "A team brought together in the Corporate
Lab to engage on a vexing issue can quickly produce satisfying and
actionable results that add to the organization's bottom line. Even
more importantly, this process creates alignment to embrace the new
culture and execute new strategies. The team put in place is then
empowered with the skills needed to independently sustain
transformational change within the organization."
A client company often has a clear and well-understood need: for
example, to transform its customer experience; build a more agile,
flexible and fast organization; or create a customer-centric
culture of innovation. "These are journeys fraught with ambiguity,
conflict, exhaustion, and an 80 percent failure rate," Klapper
said. "Transforming cultures need a proven way to overcome stubborn
problems."
The Corporate Lab approach fits well with Heidrick &
Struggles' focus on finding transformative leaders for clients, and
then equipping them with proven leadership and culture tools to
succeed in their new roles. "We have constructed a
psychologically elegant approach that provides the cornerstone for
transformational change," Klapper said. "Our methodology galvanizes
the management team and creates cubicle-level pull to implement big
ideas throughout the organization. Our clients' leadership
precisely controls the pace of change and can see tangible results
every 30 days."
About Heidrick & Struggles:
Heidrick &
Struggles (Nasdaq: HSII) serves the executive talent and leadership
needs of the world's top organizations as a premier provider of
leadership consulting, culture shaping and senior-level executive
search services. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession
of executive search more than 60 years ago. Today, the firm serves
as a trusted advisor, providing integrated leadership solutions and
helping its clients change the world, one leadership team at a
time. www.heidrick.com.
Contact:
Jon Harmon +1 630.815.6586
jharmon@heidrick.com
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