businessfourzero - a Heidrick & Struggles company

We're hugely excited to welcome a new face to our ever-expanding Chicago team, Katerina Roldan! Katerina joins us as a Business Experience Manager, bringing a decade of experience applying people-first, strategic, and creative approaches to project management across multiple business functions. She comes from an education nonprofit background, where she designed campaigns, branding initiatives, and project timelines for diverse audiences. Katerina also has experience leading employee engagement strategy and initiatives to strengthen organizational effectiveness and build inclusive, high-performing teams. Her work reflects a deep commitment to purpose-driven impact and a strong belief in the power of people, and we can't wait to see her apply these skills to maximising the impact our clients can have in the world. A natural connector, she thrives on building spaces where people feel seen, heard, and inspired to engage with one another. Outside of work, she’s a natural extrovert who finds joy in connecting with others, learning about cultures through experiences and travel. Welcome, we're so pleased to have you on board! #performance #culture #purpose #leadership

This year we helped Chris Drumgoole and his newly-formed leadership team at DXC Technology GIS, as they defined a simple, compelling direction and culture to deliver sustainable and profitable growth into 2026 and beyond.   Everything centered around the exceptional talent and unique value GIS provides for their customers and the world at large with their mission-critical IT services.    Having connected their purpose, strategic drivers, and behaviors, the leadership team brought together their top 200 leaders at a ‘game-changing’ 2-day event, and are now making the new direction a reality deep into the business.   The result? A reignited culture and renewed sense of momentum towards a powerful new direction. #purpose #strategy #leadership #culture #transformation

Culture matters. But it’s not really an end in itself. Too many teams chase feel-good culture, forgetting that high-fives and happy hours won’t move the needle unless they drive execution. Culture is an engine for strategy, not a trophy for display. So ask yourself: is your culture accelerating performance - or just making everyone comfortable? Read about the impact a culture rigged for high performance creates at the link below. https://lnkd.in/em3VrsXQ #purpose #culture #strategy #transformation #performance

What will be the same, and what will be very different, for CPOs in 2030? On Tuesday in Houston, we brought 35 CPOs together to stress-test that question, in collaboration with our colleagues in the CHRO Practice at Heidrick & Struggles. We all know the remit for CPOs is widening fast. We also know that’s happening in a global context where volatility is now the backdrop, not a passing trend. So it was hugely inspiring to hear the room of CPOs talking about what’s giving them energy to lead boldly and optimistically through the chaos in the next five years, namely: - HR’s increasing positioning at the centre of enterprise transformation, not just bureaucracy - Strengthened trust with C-suite and Board peers, leading to greater strategic influence - The chance to orchestrate multi-faceted transformations where culture, leadership, and technology converge. Thanks again to everyone who contributed — we were left hugely energised and inspired by the ambition and energy in the room. #purpose #leadership #culture #performance #transformation

A lot of businesses are going nowhere fast.    We see it all the time in our work with Execs: every team, deck and dashboard pulling hard in diverging directions.   But acceleration without alignment is just faster drift. So before you go fast, make sure everyone commits to exactly where you’re going and why. It’s a non-negotiable for creating actual performance acceleration.    Where is misalignment quietly draining your momentum right now? #purpose #leadership #culture #performance

We're #hiring a Consulting Lead to join our growing team. As a Lead, you'll work directly with the executive teams of big businesses to shift how they work, lead, and grow. If you're driven by solving complex challenges, energised by working shoulder-to-shoulder with big clients, and obsessed with delivering real impact - this could be the role for you. This position could be located in any of our offices (London, Chicago, New York City). Find out more and apply via the link below. We can't wait to hear from you!

Everyone loves the idea of a “brilliant” strategy. But we see it all the time: a clever plan gets unveiled in a glossy deck, and then… nothing. No momentum, no buy-in, no follow-through.   The truth is, an ordinary plan fully embraced by your team beats a genius plan collecting dust.    Why? Because execution beats theory, every time.   In our work with leadership teams, we find the real shortage isn’t smart ideas – it’s the conviction and alignment to bring even a basic idea to life. If your team isn’t rallying behind the strategy, the strategy is just BS on paper.   Is your strategy sparking daily action or just collecting dust in a deck? Read about some of the teams we've helped get on a mission to actually do business better here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eu-wU6Ru

We're delighted to welcome Mark Cruse to B4Z as a Consultant in our Chicago office! Mark joins us with a background in strategy, marketing and experience design. His work has spanned industries, from healthcare to sustainability to retail, always with a focus on helping teams move from complex problems to clear, human-centered solutions. He is passionate about bringing purpose to life through storytelling and has a knack for turning insights into action in ways that are both creative and commercially grounded. Outside of work, Mark has led community-focused initiatives, produced immersive events for emerging artists and built spaces where creativity and culture intersect! Welcome onboard Mark! #purpose #leadership #culture #performance

Another Supercharger wrapped! With the business growing and new faces joining constantly, our People team have done an incredible job crafting the latest edition of our Supercharger, a 2-day offsite to get our newbies fluent in what it takes to have actual impact in our work. Great to welcome even more boomerangs back to the business as well, bringing welcome perspective on what has changed and stayed constant in our thinking and impact as we’ve grown. Huge thanks to everyone involved! #leadership #culture #performance #purpose

Fresh off a whirlwind tour, we’re delighted that Hugh Pickering, Eleanor Goodman, Olivia Parrott, Lucy Swindell and Libby Flood can call a well-earned wrap on a trio of mission critical events where they mobilised a new strategy with leaders across Bangkok, Amsterdam, and Chicago for one of our global professional services clients. The journey from crafting a bold strategic direction with an Exec to launching it across three continents is special, and there's lots more to come as we help their teams make execution inevitable, followed by a programme to get people actually changing their behaviour in the work. We can’t wait to see the impact it has in helping those teams actually do business better! #purpose #culture #performance #leadership