Let’s Redefine Executive Hiring with Steve Cadigan

Most organizations say they hire for potential. But when it comes to executive hiring, they still default to industry experience, years in similar roles, and recognizable company names.

The result? Expensive hiring mistakes, missed transformations, and leaders who looked perfect on paper but never delivered.

In this conversation, Steve Cadigan — Talent Futurist, Author, and LinkedIn's first ever CHRO — joins Serap Zel to explore what executive hiring gets fundamentally wrong, and what it would look like if we rebuilt it from scratch.

Key Highlights

• Why the traditional executive hiring criteria are quietly becoming obsolete, and what boards and CEOs need to rethink first.

• Learning agility as the most critical yet least measured leadership quality, and how to actually assess it during hiring.

• The patterns that separate transformational executive hires from costly mistakes, and the warning signs organizations consistently overlook.

• Where AI genuinely improves executive hiring, and where human judgment must remain irreplaceable.

• How senior leaders can future-proof their own careers for opportunities that don't yet exist.

  
  

Why Listen

• Understand why even the most experienced hiring teams consistently misjudge executive potential.

• Learn which signals reveal true leadership capability — and which ones are misleading.

• Discover how executives can proactively position themselves for the leadership roles of tomorrow.

  
  

Guest: Steve Cadigan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cadigan/

Hosted by: Serap Zel

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/serapzel/