How to Hire an Executive Chairman
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire an Executive Chairman by being very clear about the role’s scope and its relationship with the CEO, and by finding a leader with the experience and standing to be actively involved while working well alongside the chief executive. Because the role concentrates power and […]
How to Hire a Managing Partner
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire or select a Managing Partner who can both run the firm as a business and lead fellow partners — owners with a stake and a voice — through legitimacy, influence, and consensus. Look for genuine leadership and business capability combined with the standing and […]
How to Hire a Group CEO
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire a Group CEO for the ability to lead a portfolio — allocating capital and attention across businesses, leading through the CEOs who run them, and creating value at the group level — rather than running a single business hands-on. Assess for portfolio strategy, capital […]
Derma & Clinical Beauty Leadership: Hiring for the Category
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire derma and clinical beauty leaders who combine genuine scientific and efficacy credibility with brand and commercial strength — and an understanding of the category’s distinctive dynamics, including its links to dermatology, the professional channel, and rigorous claims. The best pair real credibility on the […]
Leading a Matrix Organization
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerLeading in a matrix organization — where people have more than one reporting line, such as functional and business, or global and regional — takes the ability to lead through influence rather than clear authority, manage ambiguity and shared accountability, and navigate the tensions the […]
Executive Resilience and Avoiding Burnout
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerExecutive resilience — the ability to sustain performance and wellbeing under the sustained pressure of senior leadership — matters both for the leader and the business. Building it means managing energy and boundaries, building support, maintaining perspective, and recognising the signs of burnout early. Sustainable […]
Leading a Global Team
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerLeading a global team takes cultural awareness and respect, deliberate communication across distance and time zones, the ability to balance global consistency with local difference, and extra effort to build trust and connection across borders. What is hard about any distributed team is amplified by […]
How to Hire an Events & Experiential Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire events and experiential leaders who combine genuine creativity and a feel for experience with the operational rigour to deliver complex events flawlessly and the commercial capability to build a profitable business. The best pair creative vision with the discipline to execute at scale under […]
How to Hire a Hotel Group Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire hotel group leaders who combine a genuine feel for hospitality and guest experience with the ability to run complex, multi-property operations at scale — and, often, an understanding of the brand, real estate, and commercial dynamics of the sector. The best pair service and […]
How to Hire a Travel & Tourism Executive
By Annabel Norman, Managing Partner · Norman Consultants The short answerHire travel and tourism leaders who combine a feel for the customer experience the industry sells with commercial and operational capability, an understanding of its distinctive dynamics — seasonality, distribution, and increasingly digital — and the resilience to lead through a cyclical, disruption-prone sector. The […]
