For Board Chairs
Give your next CEO the fastest possible read on the organisation they are inheriting
Nearly half of externally hired CEOs fail within 18 months. myCandr gives you the tools to shorten that transition, and the ongoing oversight to catch culture risk before it reaches the press.
The Chair's Challenge
The CEO transition is the highest-risk moment on your watch.
Research from Harvard Business School found that 47% of externally hired CEOs fail within their first 18 months, not for lack of capability, but because they do not understand the organisation's real dynamics and culture quickly enough. Separate research from McKinsey found that leaders who make decisions based on comprehensive organisational insight are 3.5 times more likely to succeed in their first year.
Traditional onboarding, listening tours, town halls, one-to-one meetings, gives a new CEO a filtered view. People are cautious about what they tell an incoming leader, and the board is often working from the same limited picture, right when its own oversight matters most.
myCandr gives you and your incoming CEO an unfiltered, evidence-based view of the organisation, from before day one and throughout their tenure, alongside continuous, independent oversight of culture and morale between board meetings.
Accelerated CEO onboarding
Insight Index turns years of historical employee feedback into a rapid, evidence-based read of the organisation your incoming CEO is inheriting, compressing months of listening tours into days.
See how Insight Index worksUnfiltered ground truth before day one
New CEOs rarely hear the unvarnished truth. Give your appointee access to what employees really think, without the filtering that inevitably happens during a leadership transition.
An early warning system between board meetings
Walk the Floors continuously monitors public employee review platforms, giving you visibility into culture and morale shifts long before they surface in formal reporting or in the press.
See how Walk the Floors worksIndependent oversight, not management self-reporting
Give the board a direct line to organisational health, so governance does not depend solely on what management chooses to share.
FAQs
Common questions
How does myCandr help during a CEO transition?
Insight Index turns years of existing employee feedback into an evidence-based read of the organisation an incoming CEO is inheriting, compressing months of listening tours into days.
What is Walk the Floors and how does it help the board?
Walk the Floors continuously monitors public employee review platforms, giving the board independent visibility into culture and morale shifts between formal reporting cycles or board meetings.
Why do boards need an independent source of culture intelligence?
Most culture reporting is prepared by management before it reaches the board. An independent source, drawn from feedback data and public signal, gives the board a cross-check that doesn't depend solely on what management chooses to share.
Is this only useful during a CEO transition?
No. While it's especially valuable during a transition, boards use it on an ongoing basis as a standing input to governance and risk oversight.
How is board-level reporting delivered?
Findings are structured into clear, prioritised reporting suitable for board packs and risk committee review, not raw survey data.