Nic Cutts is a member of our global Leadership & Succession team, based in Dubai. With 20 years’ experience advising senior leaders and boards across the Middle East and Europe, Nic’s key areas of focus include board and C-suite assessment and development, top team effectiveness, design of active talent and succession architecture, executive transitions, and the development of enterprise-wide employee value propositions and leadership brand. Nic came to Russell Reynolds Associates from Korn Ferry, where he was a senior client partner on their leadership and talent advisory practice. Prior to this, he led consulting practices based in both the UK and the Middle East, focusing on the provision of organizational psychology consulting solutions. In these roles, Nic led a vast range of consulting assignments, focusing on strategic talent management, executive assessment, competency framework design and more. He began his career with a focus on psychometrics as a research psychologist at Team Focus Ltd. Nic is a Chartered Psychologist (UK) and holds a BSc, with honors, in psychology from the University of Greenwich as well as an MSc in occupational psychology from London Metropolitan University. He is a certified executive coach and holds accreditation in many of the leading psychometric assessments in the market.