Free, Insightful Guides
To help you on your recruitment journey and provide valuable leadership advice.
So... You Want to Be a Product-Led Business
If your organisation is struggling with slow decisions, siloed teams, or outdated ways of working, this guide shows you how to fix it. So… You Want to Be a Product-Led Business is a practical playbook for leaders who want to transform their organisation by putting customer outcomes at the centre of every decision. Packed with evidence, real-world insights, and a clear roadmap, it breaks down what product-led really means (even if you’re not a product company) and shows how to redesign teams, culture, and processes for agility, alignment, and measurable impact. If you’re ready to modernise your business model and compete with sharper focus and speed, this guide is your starting point.
A Strategic Approach
to Team Development
Is your leadership team performing at its peak? This guide from Adastrum Consulting reveals the science behind high-performing teams, highlighting the critical elements of trust, purpose, resilience, focus, adaptability, agility, influence, and decisive action. It explains how to identify and overcome common challenges like strategic misalignment and communication breakdowns using data-driven assessments of both internal team dynamics and external interactions. Adastrum offers a bespoke approach to team development, eschewing cookie-cutter solutions in favor of customized plans that leverage behavioral science and organizational psychology to foster cohesive, agile, and purpose-driven leadership teams, ultimately leading to significant improvements in profitability.
Beyond Resumes
Transform your recruitment strategy with Adastrum Consulting's "Beyond Resumes" guide.
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This essential resource challenges traditional hiring practices, advocating for solution-based recruitment that prioritises problem-solving, adaptability, and cultural fit over conventional qualifications. Discover how skills-based hiring, psychometric profiling, and inclusive recruitment practices can uncover hidden talent, drive innovation, and align leadership with your organisation’s strategic goals. Don’t settle for resumes—explore the future of impactful hiring today. Download now to redefine the way you build your team.
Navigating Digital Transformation GenAI
Unlock the full potential of Generative AI (GenAI) in your business with our comprehensive guide, Navigating Digital Transformation.
This essential resource is designed for C-suite executives and business leaders looking to harness the power of GenAI to drive innovation, enhance operational efficiency, and stay ahead of the competition. From strategic implementation to workforce transformation, we explore key considerations and real-world applications that can reshape your business for the future. Download the guide now and take the first step toward a smarter, AI-driven enterprise.
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2025 Leadership Benchmark Report
Data, Psychology & Performance: What’s Defining Effective Leadership in 2025
​The 2025 Adastrum Leadership Benchmark Report brings together authoritative research, market data, and team maturity insights from FTSE companies and high-growth scale-ups — offering an evidence-based view of what’s driving leadership success today.
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This isn’t another opinion piece on leadership trends. It’s a data-rich review of what the numbers actually say — from why executive hires fail, to how “culture-add” hiring, agility, and team psychology now shape performance and value creation.
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Inside the Report:
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Executive Failure Rates: Why up to 58% of external hires still fall short — and what distinguishes those who thrive.
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Leadership Traits that Matter: Data-backed benchmarks from McKinsey, Korn Ferry and DDI on the capabilities defining success.
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Culture-Add Over Culture-Fit: How inclusive, diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones in innovation and engagement.
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Team Maturity Insights: Exclusive Adastrum x Meta Team data revealing how trust, agility and influencing habits drive a 22.8% uplift in performance.
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Gender & Representation: The latest FTSE Women Leaders Review findings and what they mean for future pipelines.
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Private Equity Perspective: How investors are turning leadership capability into a measurable driver of portfolio value.
Whether you’re preparing a board review, shaping next year’s leadership strategy, or benchmarking your executive team’s performance — this report delivers the evidence and insight to guide your decisions.
Download the full report to explore the data, trends and diagnostics defining leadership performance in 2025.
About Us
Adastrum Consulting delivers Executive Search, Interim Management and Leadership Advisory services to businesses. We help clients to Assess, Develop, Recruit and Retain the very best and importantly most appropriate talent for their organisation and so make the vital link between People Performance and Business Performance. We call this integrated talent management.
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