---
id: "entity-russell-reynolds"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Russell Reynolds Associates"
aliases: ["Russell Reynolds"]
source_timestamps: ["§ Evolution of the C-Suite"]
tags: ["executive-search", "data-source"]
related: ["claim-cfo-evolution", "claim-declining-c-suite-roles", "entity-tomas-chamorro-premuzic"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-56-csuite-board-reshaped-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-c-suite-and-board-roles-are-being-reshaped-around-ai"
sourceTitle: "How C-Suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped Around AI"
---
# Russell Reynolds Associates

**Role in the source:** The primary empirical data source. A global **executive search and leadership advisory firm**.

The article cites its dataset of **more than 5,000 open executive roles analyzed between 2019 and 2025** to demonstrate how technology is reshaping the composition of the C-suite. This dataset is the evidentiary backbone of two claims:
- [[claim-cfo-evolution]] — CFO skills trending toward data/AI, away from technical accounting
- [[claim-declining-c-suite-roles]] — Chief Digital Officer and Chief Diversity Officer titles trending downward

The author, [[entity-tomas-chamorro-premuzic]], holds a senior science/talent-analytics role at the firm, giving him direct access to this proprietary search data. *(Enrichment note: the 5,000-role figure comes from the firm's internal dataset; it is plausible and consistent with external Big-4 and consulting trend reports but cannot be independently re-quantified from open data.)*