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Culture and Change Management Practice Leader, Craig Kamins, joins Leadership Advisory Firm

Craig Kamins, JD, MBA, spanning multiple decades in global consulting companies, Korn Ferry, Gallup, and McKinsey, extends the firm’s leadership advisory services, broadening its ability to help executive leaders navigate culture change.

Leveraging Culture to Enable Organizational Change

Mr. Craig Kamins will serve as the head of the firm’s new Culture and Change Management Practice. Carpe Diem sees this as an area of vital importance to clients as they attempt to navigate through another period of dynamic change.

For a few years, organizations framed their people strategy around their response to COVID. Then they had to deal with the recession, return to work and its aftermath, and now the onslaught of artificial intelligence. Organizations with healthy and supportive cultures are in the best position to weather the storm.

Helping Leaders Properly Assess and Map Culture Change – at Scale

Craig Kamins, JD, MBA

Mr. Kamins has over 25 years of experience partnering with clients assessing, aligning, and executing on culture and change management initiatives in a broad range of sectors including technology, consumer, healthcare, and industrial. This includes companies experiencing significant changes in leadership and organizational structures or facing disruptive changes to the business or operating model.

The Impact of Workforce Management and RTW Policies on Retail Cultures: A Mixed Bag

The retail industry is in the midst of a grand experiment: remote work. While some companies are singing its praises, others are still trying to figure out the tune. The question on everyone’s mind: does remote work benefit the bottom line and company culture?

Emerging Uses of AI in Human Capital Management: Part 2

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Emerging Uses of AI in Human Capital Management: Part 1

I. Talent Acquisition

Former Global Talent Acquisition leader, Jamie Farnham, Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

Jamie Farnham, a multi decade operating leader of Global Talent Acquisition and Management, spanning four multinational companies, has joined the firm extending capability into Technology, Life Sciences, CPG and Healthcare.

As a client side, functional leader in Talent Acquisition, Jamie brings extensive experience advising CEO’s, Founders, CHRO’s and C-suite executives on Talent Acquisition strategy and delivery with a fresh perspective on how clients manage the function in today’s evolving labor market.

Carpe Diem Unveils New Leadership Advisory Services To Assist CEOs In Addressing Labor & Skills Shortages

SAN FRANCISCO, January 25, 2023

52% of Global CEOs surveyed by PwC believe that labor/skills shortages will impact profitability in their industry over the next 10 years.* Carpe Diem Global Partners responded to these needs by expanding broadly in Talent Management, Leadership Development and Organizational Advisory Services.

HR Tech Outlook Recognizes Carpe Diem Global Partners as Top Talent Management Company

San Francisco, CA
November 7, 2022

HR Tech Outlook is a global print and digital platform focused on reporting technology and service disruption within the HR function. The publication guides CHROs to leverage new technologies and embrace the future by turning the attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation. The publication evaluated and assessed a broad range of talent management firms before selecting the top 10 most disruptive firms.

Enter Carpe Diem Global Partners—a bespoke, performance-based leadership advisory firm that delivers retained executive search, leadership, team and organizational development. The firm has clearly differentiated itself in its business model, consultants, transparency, accountability, and performance guarantees, especially geared around client needs.

Fear as a De-motivator

How often have you heard a direct report, colleague or even a boss say, “I would have disagreed, but I was hesitant to speak up.”

For executives, it’s critical your teams, direct reports and cross functional colleagues tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. How can you promote greater transparency?

The 3 Most Popular Leadership Development Strategies for Omni Channel Retailers

Over the past several years, leaders across the corporate world have been faced with an unprecedented set of challenges. Having emerged–for now–from the worst of a global pandemic that caused issues including supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rapid organization transition to remote work, it’s no surprise that some 72% of executives were reporting burnout as recently as October 2021. And, with a recession seemingly looming in the very near future, leaders are faced with a new set of challenges in a rapidly-evolving landscape.
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How Many Coaches Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

Does Strengths Based Coaching Really Work? It’s All About Behavior.

Don Clifton created the strengths-based development movement and empowered millions to be their best self. Clifton started his research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln library. But he was struck that all of the psychology books he could find were about what is wrong with people — he couldn’t find a single one about what might be right with people.

Former Levi Strauss HR Executive, Edel Keville, Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

Edel Keville, a +25-year Operating Executive and former Levi Strauss, HP and Sun Microsystems HR Leader, has joined the firm’s Leadership Development practice.

Carpe Diem Global Partners announced today that Edel Keville has joined as Managing Partner of its Leadership Development Practice: Succession, High Potential, 360 Performance Reviews, Accelerated Onboarding, Leadership Development, and Team Development.
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What Is the Right Balance between Human Involvement and Automation in a Finance Function?

Cash Management, Process Identification and Hiring, Become the Top Priorities Over Automation for Finance and Accounting Leaders in Early Stage Businesses.

Carpe Diem Managing Partner, Fay Wasylyniuk, presented these questions to leaders in companies comprised, almost entirely, of life sciences or biotech businesses. The majority of leaders cited cash management as the most important accounting priority at start-up. Leaders also focused on the importance of ensuring that payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and bank accounts are set up in accordance with laws and accurately reported.
– for management decision-making and stakeholder reporting. Other responses also highlighted that hiring the right people for the team was necessary for establishing proper internal controls and segregation of duties.

How Can Your Company Translate a Finance Narrative Culture and Cadence that Is Inspiring and Engaging to Your Associates?

Carpe Diem Managing Partner, Jeff DeFazio, spoke to a number of Corporate Communication leaders over the last 6 months to better understand how to transform an organization’s culture to a more finance-driven culture while continuing to maintain an inspired and engaged workforce. The Communication Leaders he spoke to represent a wide range of companies from CPG, Technology, Health Care, Pharma, Energy, and Retail. Communication Leader’s views represented a mix of public and private equity-owned companies, predominantly with a scale of over $2 billion in revenue. DeFazio condensed the discussions in the following executive recap.

In summary, most communication leaders discussed shifting culture to a more financial orientation by ensuring associates understood the link between capital markets and greater investment capability in R&D, operational improvements and brand building. Shifting an organization’s culture to more finance-driven requires rewarding more for outcomes, leaders taking more risks, and ensuring associates are deeply connected to a company’s vision and strategy.

With the inevitability of the remote workforce caused by the pandemic, how have leadership styles changed?

With the inevitability of the remote workforce caused by the pandemic, how have leadership styles changed? Are there plans to go back to the office?

With the pandemic forcing companies to close down physical locations due to spikes in cases, many employees now find themselves working remotely. This change has certainly been one that companies have had to adjust and adapt to – company leaders have had to determine best practices in leadership styles. Jeff DeFazio, Managing Partner for Carpe Diem Partners, spoke with 42 HR leaders about changes in CEO leadership styles brought on by the pandemic and remote work. The two questions centered around whether the CEOs of companies have changed their leadership style to accommodate a remote workforce and whether or not the company had plans to return to full in-office residence. For reference, the market scan included businesses comprised of public and private companies with $500mm or greater in revenue.
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Disruptive Firm Carpe Diem Partners expands into Executive Coaching Services

Art Resnikoff, a 20-year pioneer, and practitioner in Executive Coaching has joined the firm to lead and build the firm’s C-suite executive coaching practice: Succession, High Potential, 360, Accelerated Onboarding, Leadership Development, and Team Development.

February 15, 2022

Carpe Diem Partners announced today that Art Resnikoff has joined Carpe Diem Partners as a Managing Partner leading its new C-suite Executive Coaching Practice. Art will lead the firm’s expansion into the most sought-after leadership services, building off the firm’s successful “accelerated onboarding” program with placed candidates.

WARNING: STORM HAZARD:
The Great Resignation is Coming.

A divergence is taking place in the business community. A traditional leadership approach that values centralization is bringing workers back to the office with the expectation that closer physical proximity generates greater collaboration, hence more efficient outcomes. While another approach, quickly being embraced by the technology industry, believes remote workers can be as effective and happier in a decentralized structure.

These opposing visions are setting the stage this fall for a turbulent re-entry into the workplace if the pandemic recedes. With some of the biggest names in tech offering new hires lucrative opportunities with no requirement to relocate, many workers are leaving their current companies outright rather than return to long, costly commutes and 60-hour workweeks at the office. An even larger swath of associates forced to return are compliant publicly but privately are searching for new opportunities that offer greater flexibility to work remotely. The potential impact across industries is so great that some are already christening this fall “the great resignation” in memory of the great recession in 2010.
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Fay Wasylyniuk Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

Fay Wasylyniuk, former PepsiCo Senior HR Executive, Joins Disruptive Executive Search Firm Carpe Diem Global Partners

San Francisco, CA – June 10, 2021

Fay Wasylyniuk, a Senior Human Resources Executive from PepsiCo and the broader Consumer and Retail industry, with experience across HR Strategy, Organizational Development, and Change Management has joined the reimagined executive search firm, Carpe Diem Global Partners.

Effective immediately, Fay Wasylyniuk will lead the firm’s engagements across all verticals bringing decades of HR operating experience to the firms clients. As a Managing Partner, Fay will be an active client engagement leader in retained search and in the firm’s diagnostic consulting services.

Offices of the Future? Think “Collaboration Hubs”

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled businesses to transition to a distributed workforce model over the last year. According to a Gartner survey, More than 80 percent of organizations encouraged or required employees to work from home due to the pandemic. With the pandemic’s end in sight due to vaccine distribution, there is wide speculation on how companies will resume operations. What will offices look like post pandemic? Here’s a glimpse of how top HR leaders are thinking about the future of “centralized offices.”

What Leaders Do During Crisis

The coronavirus pandemic is a crisis unlike any most executives have ever seen. With much of the country under shelter-in-place orders, companies have been forced to transform into remote businesses almost overnight. And most are completely unprepared. No business continuity plan accounts for an entire workforce shifting abruptly from working in a central office or manufacturing plant to working out of their homes.

Predictably, businesses have been upended, with CEOs and CHROs bearing the brunt. Both leaders have had to shift to crisis manager roles, balancing growth with survival as they improvise how to operate remotely, keep employees engaged, and maintain productivity. The examples of resilience, teamwork, creativity, humility, and innovation have been nothing short of inspiring.

In just a few weeks, we’ve seen how this new way of doing business has impacted retained executive search. Our clients are still hiring, but launch meetings, prospect screenings, and candidate interviews are now done entirely through video conferencing. “Because of the new demands placed on our clients’ CEOs and CHROs especially, individual bandwidth has been stretched to human limits,” said Carpe Diem Global Partners Founder and Managing Partner Jeff DeFazio.

Most significantly, the face-to-face candidate interview and office tour that typically occurs in the middle of the executive search process has now been pushed to the very end of the process in hopes shelter-in-place orders will be lifted by the time of offer. That can have serious ramifications if the candidate or client decides to pull out of the process.

Disruption is Coming to the Retained Executive Search Industry

The executive search industry is being disrupted by the entrance of a new business model and technology: Carpe Diem Partners

San Francisco, CA – December 5, 2018

Solving many of the challenges that clients experience when hiring a retained executive search firm, a new player has arrived with faster service, balanced candidate assessments, and the only retained executive search firm nationally certified in Diversity & Inclusion. With a unique operating platform and a refreshing approach to performance, Carpe Diem Partners has established itself as a truly disruptive firm, end to end, in an industry long overdue for disruption.

The True Power of Diversity

In the light of recent societal movements, such as #metoo or #TimesUp, and the increased focus on the conversations around race and gender from both a political and economic viewpoint, the concept of Diversity has started to become charged with a negative connotation that often dismisses what it really means.

Six Reasons Why Retained Executive Search Is Ready For Disruption

Retained executive search has followed the same set of clubby rules for decades. Technology, mobility, and marketplace demand, amongst other key trends have set the table for an industry primed for disruption. At Carpe Diem Partners, we have found these six principles to govern our philosophy for change and to best serve our clients.

Culture and Change Management Practice Leader, Craig Kamins, joins Leadership Advisory Firm

Leveraging Culture to Enable Organizational Change

Helping Leaders Properly Assess and Map Culture Change – at Scale

The Impact of Workforce Management and RTW Policies on Retail Cultures: A Mixed Bag

Emerging Uses of AI in Human Capital Management: Part 2

II. Employee Leadership Assessment

Emerging Uses of AI in Human Capital Management: Part 1

I. Talent Acquisition

Former Global Talent Acquisition leader, Jamie Farnham, Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

Carpe Diem Unveils New Leadership Advisory Services To Assist CEOs In Addressing Labor & Skills Shortages

HR Tech Outlook Recognizes Carpe Diem Global Partners as Top Talent Management Company

Fear as a De-motivator

The 3 Most Popular Leadership Development Strategies for Omni Channel Retailers

How Many Coaches Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?

Does Strengths Based Coaching Really Work? It’s All About Behavior.

Former Levi Strauss HR Executive, Edel Keville, Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

What Is the Right Balance between Human Involvement and Automation in a Finance Function?

Cash Management, Process Identification and Hiring, Become the Top Priorities Over Automation for Finance and Accounting Leaders in Early Stage Businesses.

How Can Your Company Translate a Finance Narrative Culture and Cadence that Is Inspiring and Engaging to Your Associates?

How Can Your Company Translate a Finance Narrative Culture and Cadence that Is Inspiring and Engaging to Your Associates?

With the inevitability of the remote workforce caused by the pandemic, how have leadership styles changed?

With the inevitability of the remote workforce caused by the pandemic, how have leadership styles changed? Are there plans to go back to the office?

Disruptive Firm Carpe Diem Partners expands into Executive Coaching Services

WARNING: STORM HAZARD:
The Great Resignation is Coming.

Fay Wasylyniuk Joins Carpe Diem Global Partners

Offices of the Future? Think “Collaboration Hubs”

What Leaders Do During Crisis

Disruption is Coming to the Retained Executive Search Industry

The True Power of Diversity

Six Reasons Why Retained Executive Search Is Ready For Disruption

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