A hands-on guide for building leadership teams and cultures that ignite business transformation.

In The Catalyst CEO: Why CEOs Can’t Lead Transformation Alone—And What the Best Do Instead, veteran leadership advisor Constantine G. Alexandrakis delivers an insider’s guide to leading systemic change across complex organizations. Drawing on decades of experience advising world-leading companies, he challenges the cult of the hero CEO and offers a powerful new paradigm on what it truly takes to make business transformation happen—and stick.

Through real-world stories of CEOs globally who have successfully transformed their organizations, Alexandrakis reveals why even brilliant visions and strategies fail if they’re not owned, led, and executed by the right teams.

You’ll learn how to turn your board, executive team, and leaders into force multipliers—creating the conditions required for transformation to scale and endure.

Inside the book:

• A complete blueprint for establishing a clear and compelling case for transformation, creating urgency that people understand, believe, and act on.
• Specific strategies to catalyze boards and senior leadership teams as active partners in transformation, aligning them around priorities, decision-making, and shared accountability.
• How to build and lead a senior leadership team capable of executing transformation, balancing capability, trust, and constructive challenge, so change is sustained at scale.
• Real-world insights into how CEOs recognize and respond to organizational resistance, course-correct when plans go off track, and keep teams engaged under pressure.

Perfect for aspiring and practicing executives alike, The Catalyst CEO is a must-read guide for leaders who want to move beyond vision alone—and build teams capable of carrying transformation forward, long after the initial spark is lit.

CONSTANTINE G. ALEXANDRAKIS is CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates, a leading global leadership advisory firm with 47 offices in 25 countries. He advises the world’s most influential boards and CEOs on the leadership decisions that shape long-term performance—from identifying, assessing, and developing the leaders they need, to building effective leadership teams that translate strategy into results. Few people have a closer view of what separates leaders who deliver from those who don’t.