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Carly Vivian
Leadership and organizational change advisor. Thirty years advising senior executives through transformation, restructuring and leadership transition at Fortune 50 organizations.
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Leadership and organizational change advisor. Thirty years advising senior executives through transformation, restructuring and leadership transition at Fortune 50 organizations.
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Closing the Leadership Gap in Private Equity
Closing the leadership gap in private equity examines why executive leadership has become the primary lever for value creation in PE-backed companies, with holding periods doubling to six years and portfolio complexity increasing significantly. The analysis identifies three key reasons for leadership's growing importance and proposes practical opportunities for PE firms to strengthen senior talent acquisition, assessment, and development throughout the investment lifecycle.
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Summary
Closing the leadership gap in private equity examines why executive leadership has become the primary lever for value creation in PE-backed companies, with holding periods doubling to six years and portfolio complexity increasing significantly. The analysis identifies three key reasons for leadership's growing importance and proposes practical opportunities for PE firms to strengthen senior talent acquisition, assessment, and development throughout the investment lifecycle.
Tags
private-equity · leadership-development · portfolio-management · executive-talent · value-creation · organizational-strategy
Key entities
Will Moynahan (person, 0.95) · Mark Veldon (person, 0.95) · PitchBook (organization, 0.9) · portfolio-company-leadership (concept, 0.95) · executive-pipeline-strategy (concept, 0.9) · polycrisis (concept, 0.85)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 30 Sep 2026