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Bespoke Partners

Bespoke's CEO Eric Walczykowski interviews PE industry leaders for the latest insights and trends shaping the private equity talent landscape. Join us for an engaging quick-hit discussion on: macro trends in private equity, economy outlook, leadership in challenging times, go-to-market strategies, compensation trends, Step-up candidates, and strategic hiring. Listen in on this quick-hit  podcast to hear about their take on current market trends! Want to watch the full video episode? https://www.bespokepartners.com/tailored-talent-insights/--Learn more at bespokepartners.com

Episodes

  1. Jul 13

    The AI Adept Leader: How PE-Backed Software Is Rethinking Product and Technology Hiring

    The SaaS landscape is not experiencing a disruption. It is experiencing a reset. AI is compressing software development cycles, elevating product as the primary bottleneck in PE-backed software companies and forcing a fundamental rethink of what product and technology leadership needs to look like going forward. In this episode of Tailored Talent, Bespoke Partners CEO Eric Walczykowski sits down with Haley Mundy, Partner and Product and Technology Practice Expert, and Ryan Bonner, Partner and Product and Technology Practice Expert, for a direct conversation on how AI is reshaping the P&T leadership mandate and what PE-backed software companies need to do differently in how they source, assess, and close the right leaders. The conversation covers why the chief AI officer is a transitional role that works itself out of a job if done correctly, how the convergence of product and software development is changing the relationship between the CPO and CTO, why the best product and technology candidates today are rejecting high compensation packages in favor of the right problem to solve, and what it means to hire for potential rather than track record when the AI learning curve is measured in months, not years. This is not a theoretical conversation about AI strategy. It is a ground-level view from the practitioners running more product and technology searches in PE-backed software than anyone else in the market. Get deeper insights by downloading your version of our newest release of the Private Equity Talent Report, Talent Market Update: https://www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/

  2. Jun 10

    Winning the War for Talent: The Modern Industrial Leadership Playbook for Private Equity-Backed Companies

    The industrial sector is modernizing faster than most private equity-backed companies are prepared for. The command-and-control operator who worked a decade ago is giving way to a different kind of leader: someone who can drive efficiency through data and automation, bring teams along through transformation, and think clearly about AI even when the roadmap is not fully drawn. In this episode of Tailored Talent, Bespoke Partners CEO Eric Walczykowski sits down with Heather Kivett and Jared Moriarty, Partners at Industra Talent Partners, to talk through what is happening in the industrial talent market right now and what PE-backed companies need to do to find, attract, and retain the leaders who can execute in this environment. Topics include the push toward visibility, efficiency, and labor productivity as the core modernization agenda; why leadership style has become as important as operational experience in industrial searches; how compensation packages need to evolve in longer hold periods; how AI is showing up in industrial businesses and how Industra is screening for it; and what separates the PE firms that consistently build winning industrial leadership teams from those that do not. Get deeper insights by downloading your version of our newest release of the Private Equity Talent Report, Talent Market Update: https://www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/

  3. May 29

    From Support Function to Value Driver: The New CHRO in PE-Backed Companies

    The CHRO role in private equity-backed companies is not what it was five years ago. People costs are among the largest line items on any P&L. AI is forcing every organization to rethink how work gets done. And the sponsors who are treating HR as a tactical support function are falling behind the ones who have put a strategic people leader at the center of their value creation plan. In this episode of Tailored Talent, Bespoke Partners CEO Eric Walczykowski sits down with Dani Pfeiffer, Partner and leader of Bespoke's Human Capital Practice, to talk through what the modern CHRO looks like in PE-backed companies, how AI is reshaping the people leader's mandate, and what it takes to find and place a people leader who can actually drive enterprise value. Topics include why the CHRO needs to be a peer to the CFO rather than a report to one, how AI adoption and workforce redesign have become core to the people leader's job, what execution-oriented HR leadership looks like in lean PE environments, and why this role is not one sponsors can afford to wait on. Get deeper insights by downloading your version of our newest release of the Private Equity Talent Report, Talent Market Update: https://www.bespokepartners.com/private-equity-talent-report/

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Bespoke's CEO Eric Walczykowski interviews PE industry leaders for the latest insights and trends shaping the private equity talent landscape. Join us for an engaging quick-hit discussion on: macro trends in private equity, economy outlook, leadership in challenging times, go-to-market strategies, compensation trends, Step-up candidates, and strategic hiring. Listen in on this quick-hit  podcast to hear about their take on current market trends! Want to watch the full video episode? https://www.bespokepartners.com/tailored-talent-insights/--Learn more at bespokepartners.com

Information

  • Creator
    Bespoke Partners
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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