Managing Director Susan Sandlund, PhD, was quoted in the Oct. 5, 2025, Fortune article, “These Co-CEOs Swear by Splitting the Job: ‘The Demands on a Modern CEO are Close to Unsustainable’”, excerpted below.
“There’s so much happening both externally and internally and organizations are going through constant change and it’s not letting up,” said Susan Sandlund, a managing director at Pearl Meyer who leads the leadership consulting practice. “It could potentially make sense to have co-CEOs if the company actually has a need for it but I wouldn’t say it should be the norm. I think it’s an exception and you have to have a pretty good business case for it.”
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