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...
by Tulika Jalota | Jul 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
Multinationals are no longer just building in India. They are increasingly hiring leaders here to take on global and regional responsibilities. What this shift means — for organisations, for talent, and for the firms helping place them. For three decades,...
by Tulika Jalota | Jul 4, 2026 | Leadership Hiring
40% of GCC hiring in India right now is replacement hiring.Not new roles. Not expansion. Just backfilling seats that were filled 18 months ago.That number, from a recent Quess Corp report, stopped me mid-scroll. Because in my 20+ years of leadership hiring, I’ve...
by Tulika Jalota | Jun 30, 2026 | Leadership Hiring
For most of the last two decades, leadership hiring followed a familiar script. Boards and CEOs looked for domain expertise, a track record of revenue growth, and the kind of institutional pedigree — the right MBA, the right employer brands — that signalled...
by Tulika Jalota | Jun 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Return That Nobody Warned You About: H-1B Professionals Are Coming Home to One of India’s Toughest Tech Job Markets An analysis of the structural mismatch between returning talent and India’s 2026 hiring landscape — and what professionals can do about...
by Tulika Jalota | Jun 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
In an era of unprecedented change, businesses need trusted partners who can help them navigate complexity, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth. Management consulting has evolved from being a luxury for large corporations to a necessity for...
