Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

for one year and ended up staying 15, became an academic in the first part of my career, started as an organizational psychologist at university, but always really cared about the applied side of things, then moved into consulting, started businesses,

some point moved to the US where I started running R&D and innovation for Hogan Assessments, then became CEO there.

That's how I became acquainted with Russell Reynolds originally.

Leadership Span was a co-creation with me being on the other side and a proprietary leadership advisory assessment tool

was created maybe six, seven years ago.

And then still in the US, I moved on to run analytics and then innovation for Manpower Group, which is a large hiring and staffing company.

So I changed quite a bit in terms of the platforms where I operated, but I've always been obsessed with talent and leadership and sort of like bridging the gap between science and practice.

making organizations more data-driven when they think about selecting or developing leaders.

That has been my obsession, and it's still what keeps me up at night.

Well, I had been meaning and wanting to join for a while our mission, which is to influence and improve how the world is led.

What is more important than that?

Nothing else.

And, you know, I was born and raised in a country that has uniquely been in economic decline for 150 years, courtesy of bad leaders.

So I'm a little bit traumatized.

I have PTSD with making bad leadership choices.

I can't fix my country, but if I can contribute to improving how organizations and businesses are led, and the world is led when you operate at the top of the house, C-suite and the most successful companies, that's amazing.

I think it's a fantastic culture.

I'm really, really looking forward to this adventure and spending some time also with the two of you.

And I'm really looking forward to working together with you and everybody else.

So it's an exciting new chapter.