Ensuring Leader Health and Performance

Business leaders today are struggling with managing their wellbeing, working with other leaders and mitigating their blind spots. Gartner analyst Rob O’Donohue joins the Talent Angle to discuss his research on how the most successful leaders succeed, despite rising employee burnout and employee-employer mistrust. Rob offers advice for how leaders can manage their workloads and take care of their own wellbeing. He also shares his insights on how leaders can build cohesion within their leadership teams and how they can better receive and implement challenging feedback from their teams and networks.

Rob O'Donohue is a vice president analyst in Gartner's executive leadership research group focusing on C-suite dynamics, executive leadership development and transitions, organizational culture change, talent and DEI. He advises executives on the future of work, hybrid work design, culture change, solving talent challenges, advancing leadership effectiveness, creating high performing teams, and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization. Rob creates evidence-based actionable research to empower executive leaders to lead more effectively.

Brent Cassell is a vice president of advisory in Gartner’s HR practice, and he has spent the past 19 years in Gartner’s HR and CIO practices. His job is to help clients find the research they need, to help them understand that research, and to coach them through the implementation of those best practices in their own organizations. Brent is the contributing editor of the HR Leaders Monthly journal. In 2022, he won Gartner’s award for Outstanding Thought Leadership for his work on Redesigning Work for the Hybrid World.