Global Executive Solutions Group

11/05/2026

If you were building a supply chain team from scratch today, where would you start? GESG’s Robert Munro identifies six roles he considers essential, ranging from IT and operations experts to a strategic sourcing lead. His list also includes a supply chain HR expert — because managing materials is one thing, but managing people takes a very different skillset.
See all six roles in the full article:

Supply chain success hinges on finding the perfect balance between established expertise and cutting-edge developments. That’s been the career story of Robert Munro, GESG’s Supply Chain Management Practice Leader. Over the course of a four-plus-decade career, he’s consulted on nearly 200 proje...

10/22/2026

Six years. That’s now the median PE holding period for portfolio companies, the longest on record.

For T&L companies, it raises a hard question: is the leadership team that got you here the one that gets you to exit?

The answer depends on when you acquired. Firms that bought before the 2024 rate recession and those that bought during it face very different talent decisions. Getting yours wrong this quarter can show up in diligence next year.

Our Q4 Talent Outlook breaks down both PE talent agendas and what each should settle before Q1 planning:

The industry is coming off the rate recession. According to DAT, national average linehaul rates in early September were up 34% year over year for van and re**er and 31% for flatbed, near the top of their nine-year seasonal range. As pricing recovers, transportation and logistics companies are shift...

10/06/2026

AI and automation get most of the attention in supply chain conversations, but Robert Munro, GESG's Supply Chain Management Practice Leader, says the real work starts somewhere simpler. After more than four decades and nearly 200 consulting projects, he sees today's technology as just the latest set of tools to put longstanding fundamentals into practice.
Read more about how yesterday's lessons are shaping today's supply chain:

Supply chain success hinges on finding the perfect balance between established expertise and cutting-edge developments. That’s been the career story of Robert Munro, GESG’s Supply Chain Management Practice Leader. Over the course of a four-plus-decade career, he’s consulted on nearly 200 proje...

09/24/2026

The candidates who can solve tomorrow's supply chain challenges may not be coming from the usual backgrounds. Military logistics, manufacturing operations, and healthcare supply chain backgrounds all carry transferable leadership skills — and they’re worth a second look. Read our take on rethinking the talent pipeline to get ahead of the curve:

For the last couple of years, the biggest conversation when it comes to hiring is all about AI: hiring for AI-readiness, which roles might or might not be subsumed by AI, how AI’s existence is requiring new roles to manage it, and so on. This is especially true in the supply chain and logistics wo...

09/08/2026

The infrastructure sector's next 25 years will look very different from its last 25, from where investments are focused to what community engagement requires of project leaders. We’re unpacking four takeaways from a major new global outlook, and what each one means for building the leadership teams to execute on it. Read now:

What does the future of infrastructure look like? That’s exactly the question that PwC and Oxford Economics attempted to answer with their Global Infrastructure Outlook 2025-50. The in-depth study considers what an increasingly-interconnected world will look like, the infrastructure that supports ...

09/07/2026

Happy Labor Day from all of us at GESG!

08/27/2026

Everyone's talking about AI-proofing their workforce. Fewer are talking about the labor shortage coming up right behind it. New research shows nearly a third of open roles can't be filled by anyone with recent, similar experience. We break down why the old hiring playbook isn't working, and what smarter sourcing looks like now.

For the last couple of years, the biggest conversation when it comes to hiring is all about AI: hiring for AI-readiness, which roles might or might not be subsumed by AI, how AI’s existence is requiring new roles to manage it, and so on. This is especially true in the supply chain and logistics wo...

08/25/2026

If AI isn’t delivering the results you expect, it may not be a tech issue, but a hiring one —because you’re using an outdated evaluation model. Download GESG’s recent white paper and learn how to screen for forward-thinking, innovative, AI-ready talent: https://gesg.com/the-hidden-talent-gap-in-ai-enabled-supply-chains/

08/20/2026

If your leadership hiring strategy for supply chain, logistics, or transportation looks the same as it did five years ago, it's time for a rethink. Tighter capacity, rising costs, and an aging workforce all point to the same conclusion: the leaders who succeed now need to manage volatility, build pipelines, and think in cost-to-serve terms, not just run operations. We put together our take on what this means for how you hire.

The U.S. economy is sending mixed signals heading into the second half of 2026. Growth continues, but slower than hoped, while inflation ticks back up, especially in energy, hitting freight and logistics hardest. Add a tightening but complicated truckload market and a workforce showing real signs of...

08/18/2026

Most companies are investing in AI training and internal champions, and that's a good start, but managers are already stretched thin with growing spans of control. Asking them to lead a technology transformation on top of everything else without real support is a recipe for burnout, not adoption. Here's what the latest research reveals:

AI adoption is reshaping organizational culture, with 24% of employees saying their culture has improved and another 25% saying it has worsened.