Private equity firms are under mounting pressure to expedite value creation, and traditional strategies are no longer sufficient. With extended hold periods, industry roll-ups, and an ultracompetitive deal landscape, operational performance and leadership effectiveness are now primary drivers of returns. Yet many firms still struggle with aligning leadership priorities, optimizing team performance, and strategic succession planning—and all of these challenges directly impact investment outcomes.
The most forward-thinking PE firms are shifting their approach to talent. In particular, they’re integrating leadership assessment, alignment and development into their investment strategies from due diligence through exit. By leveraging data-driven insights, these firms are making informed leadership decisions and reducing risk. Their portfolio company executives don’t merely operate their businesses anymore; they transform them.
Join us for this virtual event to explore how current talent strategies are helping PE firms mitigate risk, improve alignment between investors and leadership teams, and fast-track value creation. You’ll find out how other private equity firms are evolving their approaches to human capital with leadership assessment, executive coaching, and team development. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to strengthen your competitive edge and your portfolio’s performance. Watch now!
Speakers:
Ted Bililies, PhD
Global Leader of Transformative Leadership
Partner & Managing Director at AlixPartners
Ted is an internationally recognized expert on leadership and organization development. He advises investors, CEOs, and boards globally to help them select the right leaders for key roles and to position and develop those leaders and their teams for maximum value creation. Ted is often sought out for challenging succession issues and when boards of directors need to make strategic leadership change.
Serving three decades as a business psychologist, performance coach, human resources executive, and management consultant, Ted is an expert on talent and value creation in the private equity and alternatives investment space.
Ted is also on the Executive Education faculty of the Harvard Business School. He has helped leaders around the world achieve enduring change in their organizations, their teams, and themselves by expanding their psychological, behavioral, and organizational insights into leadership.
Erin Lazarus , MS
Senior Director, Business Development at Hogan Assessments
Erin Lazarus is the senior director of business development at Hogan Assessments. In this role, she leads and directs Hogan’s talent solutions consulting and commercial organization. Erin guides her team to serve as strategic advisors, helping business leaders and organizations succeed using Hogan’s data-driven talent insights. She and her team provide researched-based consulting services that empower organizations to harness their people’s potential, increase retention and engagement, build a talent pipeline, improve team dynamics, and mitigate leadership derailment through development.
Before working at Hogan, Erin was director of solution architects at SHL, where her team was responsible for designing talent solutions in the Americas. She also has business leadership experience in healthcare and experience in talent management consulting and talent analytics.
Erin has a background in industrial organizational psychology and is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.