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We are long past the point when companies need to be reminded of the importance of diversity within their senior ranks.

Egon Zehnder’s Head of the Financial Officers Practice, Cagla Bekbolet provides a perspective on what leadership requires in this new changing world order.

In a notable panel at the recent Concordia Summit in New York, female executives from Mars Chocolate, Walmart and Virgin United joined leaders from civil society to discuss gender diversity and gender parity in the C-suite.

There is now broad consensus that having a diverse board, where directors are drawn from both genders and from an array of races and ethnicities, provides the breadth of perspective that is essential in today’s global dynamic environment. But heightened awareness does not always translate to greater progress.

German companies’ supervisory boards still have too few women on them – and there’s a lack of diversity overall. Does diversity call for quotas? Brigitte Lammers from Egon Zehnder in Berlin analyses the debate and explodes some popular myths.

“Leaders & Daughters” capitalized on the momentum of International Women’s Day, marked on March 8, by bringing together more than 1,200 esteemed leaders and their daughters to engage on how to best foster opportunities to enable the success of the next generation of women leaders.

Despite India being the second country in the world to have a female head of government, corporate firms have been slow to follow this example.

What women need to do to take charge of their careers, so that they can be the leaders of tomorrow

Across the globe, gender diversity has been on the agenda of boards and nominating committees for more than two decades. During that time, however, the way in which diversity is thought of has evolved.

Luisa Fernanda Lafaurie, the Colombian chief executive officer of Oleoducto Central SA, or Ocensa, has already been board chairwoman of the oil transportation company and a board member of several other companies, including the airline Avianca SA and the Brazilian company Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista, or CTEEP.