RESOLUT Perspectives

Original analysis on leadership, executive search, and the ASEAN talent market.

Perspectives from the RESOLUT team — drawn from our own mandate data and on-the-ground experience across Southeast Asia. Written by us, for the leaders we serve.

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A Founder's PerspectiveJuly 2026

The Consultant's Real Work: Why the AI Age Makes the Human Journey Matter More, Not Less

AI has solved the long list, the sourcing, and the hard-skills match. So what is the true value of an executive search consultant today? The answer is the human accompaniment — understanding the founder, being present through uncertainty, thinking out of the box, translating across cultures and markets, and carrying a vision to a candidate in a way that lets them see their own future inside it.

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Succession PlanningFebruary 2026

The CEO's First 90 Days in a New Market: What Boards Often Miss

The most critical phase of an executive transition is also the one boards most consistently underprepare for. Our analysis of executive transitions across Southeast Asia finds that the majority of newly placed regional CEOs who struggle in year one do so not because of a skills deficit, but because of structural misalignment.

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Leadership & AIMarch 2026

From Prompting to Presence: How AI Is Reshaping Executive Decision-Making in Asia

The most consequential shift in leadership this decade is not AI adoption — it is the move from prompt-driven tools to agentic, ambient intelligence that surfaces insights before leaders know to ask. Across Asia’s boardrooms, the executives who will define the next era are those who have learned to think alongside it.

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Talent MarketJanuary 2026

ASEAN's Senior Talent Crunch: Why the Best Candidates Are Rarely Looking

In Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia, the most capable senior leaders are almost never actively on the market. Across our mandates in 2025, fewer than one in eight placed candidates had applied to a role or updated their LinkedIn profile in the twelve months prior to our approach.

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