Search - Assessment - Transition
Leadership S A T
Empowering Leadership that lasts
At PGC, we believe that leadership success is not just about hiring the right candidate. It's about ensuring the leader is aligned, equipped, and embedded to thrive in your organization.
Leadership Search : Purpose Over Profile
Traditional executive search often overemphasizes experience and resumes. At PGC, our methodology is different. We focus on values alignment, cultural fit, and purpose compatibility, the true differentiators of long-term leadership success.
In a business climate where agility, empathy, and alignment matter more than ever, global studies underscore the risks of poor hiring decisions.
Heidrick & Struggles reports that nearly 40% of senior executives fail within 18 months. Other findings suggest 50–70% of executive hires underperform or exit within two years, and 40–50% of retained searches end with no hire at all (ESIX).
PGC flips the conventional model, placing 60% emphasis on culture and values, and 40% on role specs. Whether it's CXO hiring, succession planning, or leadership team expansion, we ensure you hire not just a qualified leader, but the right leader.
Leadership Assessment: Multi-Dimensional & Evidence-Based
Using a scientifically grounded, data-driven process, our leadership assessment approach combines psychometric tools, assessment centre simulations, and emotional intelligence diagnostics to evaluate both job fit and cultural alignment.
Key tools include:
- Structured Interviews: Higher predictive validity (≈ 0.44) than unstructured formats.
- Situational Interviews: Reveal real-world judgment with accuracy up to ≈ 0.50.
- Psychometric Assessments: Enhance predictive accuracy by 25–30%, evaluating traits like learning agility, cognition, and personality.
- Emotional Intelligence (EI): Strongly linked to ~60% higher leadership effectiveness.
- Immersive Simulations: Including VR scenarios to assess resilience, adaptability, and executive decision-making under pressure.
Our holistic assessment centre model ensures our clients appoint leaders who perform and thrive, not just survive.
Leadership Transition: Embedding Success from Day One
Hiring the right leader is only the beginning. Research by McKinsey & Company reveals that 40% of new leaders fail within 18 months, while the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) finds over 50% struggle to transition effectively - primarily due to cultural misfit, value mismatches, or inability to navigate internal politics.
PGC bridges this transition gap through our proprietary LACE Framework (Leadership Accelerated Capability Enhancement). This unique model supports executives in the first 12–18 months through:
- Leadership Integration
- Strategic Alignment
- Cultural Immersion
- Execution Readiness
Through personalized coaching, cultural diagnostics, and role assimilation strategies, we accelerate trust-building, influence, and impact.
The PGC Advantage
With a minus 6 months – 18 months engagement, clients leveraging PGC’s integrated Search–Assessment–Transition model report:
- 30% faster ramp-up time
- 83% higher retention rates
- Stronger cultural integration
- 77% leadership success
At PGC, we don’t just place leaders - we prepare and partner with them to succeed and sustain.