Boardroom Breakthroughs: Executive Leadership Skills for CEOs to Align the C-Suite & Eliminate Boardroom Friction

#24 | Why Your Executive Hiring Process Misses the Leadership Traits That Matter Most in Boardrooms


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Are you hiring executives who look perfect on paper but falter in the boardroom?

Most CEOs rely on credentials, interviews, and reference checks — but these miss the authentic leadership traits that truly determine boardroom success.

In this episode, you’ll learn the three critical traits that traditional executive hiring overlooks and exactly how to assess them before making your next leadership decision. You’ll discover why boardroom presence, stress response patterns, and collaborative authority matter far more than interview charm or polished resumes.

You’ll discover:

  1. How to design assessments that reveal authentic boardroom behavior patterns.
  2. Ways to simulate board-level pressure to see a candidate’s true stress response.
  3. How to identify executives who can lead peers and superiors without damaging relationships.

Listen now to learn how to hire leaders whose authentic traits will enhance — not derail — your boardroom effectiveness.

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This podcast dives into leadership at the executive and C-suite level, focusing on high performance, CEO development, and boardroom challenges like conflict, cohesion, and decision-making. It explores executive coaching, personality and behavioral assessments (including DISC, Myers Briggs, HPI, and handwriting analysis), and tools for better executive profiling, team dynamics, and organizational fit.

Topics include inclusion, diversity, corporate culture, recruitment, outplacement, and resolving issues like miscommunication, underperformance, and leadership blindspots. Designed for CEOs, board members, and recruiters, it aims to build trusted leadership, team alignment, cohesion, and better decisions through clarity, calm, and improved communication.

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Boardroom Breakthroughs: Executive Leadership Skills for CEOs to Align the C-Suite & Eliminate Boardroom FrictionBy Anagha Deshmukh