10 Talent Themes For Private Equity
10 Talent Themes Across Private Equity in 2025 Sync Executive Partners reviews the most relevant leadership and talent articles each month. In 2025, a consistent set of themes emerged across CEO selection, board dynamics, human due diligence, operating partners, and talent leadership. Taken together, they point to a clear conclusion: leadership outcomes in private equity are shaped less by individual brilliance and more by design, alignment, and timing. Here are the top ten t
10 Talent Themes Across Private Equity in 2025
Sync Executive Partners reviews the most relevant leadership and talent articles each month. In 2025, a consistent set of themes emerged across CEO selection, board dynamics, human due diligence, operating partners, and talent leadership. Taken together, they point to a clear conclusion: leadership outcomes in private equity are shaped less by individual brilliance and more by design, alignment, and timing. Here are the top ten themes that mattered most for talent partners an
The PE CEO & CFO Report — November '25: Alignment, Excellence, and the Value Game
Scott Engler Strategic Executive Search | Building Leadership Teams for the AI Era December 2, 2025 The High Level Capital is consolidating and valuations are finally settling around real fundamentals. Continuation vehicles are now a standard tool, and carve-outs keep accelerating as companies strip away distractions. Sponsors are no longer interested in AI “experiments” — they want structured roadmaps tied to real business value. CEOs and CFOs are winning or losing on their
Enterprise Leadership: Why the Modern CFO Is the Organizations Gyroscope
Some reflections from our Sync Executive Parters session at the Insight Partners CFO Summit in NYC — and why enterprise leadership has become the defining competency of today’s CFO. Enterprise leadership isn’t about functional excellence. It’s about aligning an entire organization around the investment thesis, the business model, and the execution path that creates value. In private equity, that alignment is the difference between acceleration and drag. And no executive carri
Why You’re Thinking About Culture All Wrong --
Most organizations look at culture as a set of values -- values are behavioral priorities. Partially necessary -- not even close to sufficient. It can be a useful part the puzzle. Clayton Christensen articulated a culture formula that is far more useful. Notice how this looks far different than a set of values: Priorities (vs behavioral priorities) > resources > processes (formal and informal/values) Here's a different way to think about culture: Priorities, resources, formal
How "Competent Misalignment" Kills Enterprise Value
Most plans don’t fail because the thesis is wrong—every thesis has flaws. They fail because the organization never fully aligns to execute against it and to offset those flaws with deliberate choices, resourcing, and cadence. Alignment is what turns imperfect strategy into compounding results. We don’t lose value in private equity because people lack effort. We lose it because smart teams do sensible things that don’t add up to the outcome investors actually bought. That’s no
