by Tulika Jalota | Sep 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Managing transitions : Leadership Hiring Private equity firms have traditionally preferred candidates with prior PE portfolio company experience — but talent scarcity and increasingly complex value-creation strategies are pushing them to recruit directly from the...
by Tulika Jalota | Aug 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the biggest areas of corporate investment. Companies are experimenting with AI tools, launching pilots, automating processes and encouraging employees to use generative AI. Yet many organisations are discovering an...
by Tulika Jalota | Aug 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
At i4 Consulting, we work closely with organisations navigating this landscape, and we see the same challenges come up time and again. The Middle East is growing fast. With national transformation agendas like Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and the UAE’s...
by Tulika Jalota | Jul 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Hot take from new HBR research: the “job hopper” on your shortlist might be your best hire!! A 15-year study of nearly 9,000 hedge fund managers found that candidates who’d made 4+ company moves recovered from the new-hire performance dip in about 2...
by Tulika Jalota | Jul 14, 2026 | Leadership Hiring
Between 2020 and 2022, startup leadership hiring operated in a kind of collective hysteria. Venture capital was abundant, valuations were detached from fundamentals, and the competition for talent was so fierce that founders were making VP and C-suite offers to...