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When Talent Risk Belongs on the Board Agenda

3 min readMarcus Chen · Director, Global Markets

Succession gaps, key-person dependency, and culture debt are enterprise risks—how boards can ask better questions.

Boards routinely review cyber and financial risk. Talent risk still arrives as an HR update rather than a strategic exposure.

A practical cadence: quarterly talent risk heatmaps for critical roles, annual leadership bench reviews, and explicit linkage between strategy pivots and hiring capacity.

A practical cadence: quarterly talent risk heatmaps for critical roles, annual leadership bench reviews, and explicit linkage between strategy pivots and hiring capacity.

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