CHRO office filled by PRL International Executive Recruiting The Most Undervalued Executive in Your Company Is Probably Your CHRO I asked a room full of CEOs and COOs a simple question two months ago. How many of you view HR as a strategic asset? The silence told me everything. Most senior leaders view HR as overhead. A necessary cost. The department that handles paperwork, manages complaints, and slows down decisions. After 30 years of retained executive search, I can tell y

Most CEOs treat the Chief Human Resources Officer search as a back-office hire. Fill the seat, check the box, move on. That thinking is costing companies more than they realize. A Yale School of Management study found that when companies hired a well-compensated, strategically placed CHRO, there was a measurable bump in stock price. Not a modest internal improvement. A market reaction. Investors noticed. The same research found that companies with strong HR leadership attract

Duquesne Club Talk on AI Data Centers Yesterday morning I was at the Duquesne Club in Pittsburgh for a presentation hosted by Babst Calland and moderated by Evan Schneider, editor of the Pittsburgh Business Times. The panel covered the data center surge happening right now across Pennsylvania. I have been to a lot of these events. This one was different. The panel was one of the sharpest I have seen in years. No filler. No talking points. Just hard data and direct analysis fr

Board meeting calling PRL International for help with an Executive search The numbers are hard to ignore. The executive search market is projected to reach $64 billion in 2026 and grow to more than $103 billion by 2031. That is a 10 percent compound annual growth rate in an industry that most people outside of HR and the C-suite have never heard of. Hunt Scanlon, the leading trade publication covering the executive search industry, just reported that fee revenue at the top 50