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Comprehensive and repeated research proves that organisations that attract, motivate and develop the right people outperform those that do not. CEOs report that mainstream Leadership Development investment has very low – or no – Return on Investment (ROI).
Even more worryingly, as difficulty in selecting and developing leaders increases, success rates are deteriorating. Read more:
Our CEO, Richard Moore and Organisational Psychologist and Group Director Annukka Tervo participated and was interviewed at Nordic Business Forum 2022 around the topic of failure in Leadership Development. You can watch it here:
How can I ensure my people perform at their best?
MU Leadership Advisory experts ensure your organisation secure a performance edge. From working with individual leaders, to transforming an entire organisation, we deliver the solutions you need.
Assessment and development centres
Board evaluation and development
Leadership Audits
Coaching and leadership development
Executive Onboarding
Individual assessment for selection and development
Organisational Development
Outplacement and career transition
International Talent & Leadership Advisory
Each year our experts deliver thousands of MU Leadership Advisory, MU Leadership Assessment and MU Leadership Development Services for clients worldwide. We are organised as one global firm with talent and leadership experts working in all major markets worldwide. Whether you need a global talent management solution or want to drive change through your leaders across borders, we are ready.
Why choose Mercuri Urval for Talent & Leadership Advisory?
Trusted Experts, using science-based methods.
Extensive track-record, we provide 1000s of industry-leading solutions for clients each year – worldwide.
Approximately 25.000 times a year a Mercuri Urval Consultant assesses a candidate for selection or development with a success rate of more than 90%, placing us in the top percentile in our industry.*
Our methodology is Quality Assured, including to ISO 10667-2 standards; our experts are certified.
*Reoccurring validation studies, annually audited by DNV
MU Leadership Advisory: Organisational Analysis, Assessment and Leadership Audit
Whether you're talking strategy implementation, talent management or succession planning, it's almost always all about people. It's about identifying future capability needs, understanding your current capabilities, and addressing any gaps between the two. A Leadership Audit by Mercuri Urval takes place within the context of your specific business situation. When we assess your leaders, we evaluate their current capability and their potential to make your strategy work using the very latest science-based tools and way of working. That's why your business strategy is our point of departure, and why enabling your people to secure your results is our number one priority. So, if you need to audit a global leadership team, or evaluate the competence within a specific business division, our MU Leadership Advisory Practice is your answer. Whatever your Leadership Advisory needs we deliver expert, ‘best-in-class', tailored services guided by science.
MU Board Evaluation
Effective corporate governance is high on every organisation’s agenda. Because the decisions your Board make determine the value of your company, the decisions you make when choosing and developing your Board also determine your success. Only a quality-assured and science-based approach can reliably secure success.
You need to ensure the Board composition reflects the future business needs and Board effectiveness needs to be optimised.
Through our unique MU Leadership Assessment service our experts can assess how your existing Board Members or your potential Board Members will perform in the future, how effectively they will challenge their Executive, and how they will manage risk and secure a return on investment.
Our approach is always bespoke – precisely tailored. We address the issues you need addressing, for example:
What are the strengths and limitations of individual Board Members and of the Board as a whole?
What gaps and development needs can realistically be addressed?
What risks or opportunities are not being addressed?
How can your Board improve its performance?
Reliable evidence-based answers to questions like these ensure organisations take better advantage of current opportunities and plan their future more accurately. And whatever question we address with you, you can be assured of practical and actionable outcomes aligned with business needs.
The result of Board Evaluation
Clear and specific fact-based recommendations for each individual
Strategic insight: benchmarking the Board, understanding its strategic planning and risk management profile.
Board effectiveness development plan
In the words of our clients
Assessment – a client centric force
From being sceptical towards external assistance on establishing management teams and profiling individual managers, I am today of the opinion that the Mercuri Urval processes and the dedicated support from Mercuri Urval have been one of the important success criteria in both merging Vestas Asia and China, but especially in establishing MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S."
– Jens Tommerup, CEO
Reliable recognition of the right leaders
To help us make the right choice for key management positions, Mercuri Urval carried out assessments for our executives to get a precise picture of the potential within our people and of outside candidates as well. Their recommendations were very well founded and extremely helpful in unlocking that potential and making the right decisions. Mercuri Urval looked after us to our complete satisfaction and we are happy to recommend them to others."
– Dr. Heiko Cramer, Co-founder
Components of next-gen leadership
Following an expansion of our product portfolio and an internal restructuring to increase agility, we wanted to develop the international leadership of the Belgian organisation. To manage clients and people globally, we needed a team ready for the future. Mercuri Urval did an excellent job in translating our change needs into something our leaders could stand behind, in a way that made them excited about the needed capability development. This approach created true change agents and greatly improved consistency in our leadership."
– Pieter Vandewalle, GM
More aligned leadership, same passionate spirit
As we are maturing as a company and aligning our international leadership, it is vital we don't lose that driven spirit that has come to define Osudio. We needed to determine exactly which competencies and personalities would be the key to our future. Mercuri Urval made the intangible tangible, and provided the insights needed to form the management teams capable of leading our organisation as a driven uniform international community."