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A market-leading L&D program for senior executives highlights leaders are facing the same challenges across multiple countries, while taking different approaches to solving them.

This was a key takeaway for Persolkelly Australia's executive GM and country head Kurt Gillam, who has previously completed the program, run by Japanese-headquartered parent company Persol.

In all 13 countries the staffing and recruitment company operates in, its leaders are facing "almost identical challenges", Gillam tells HR Daily.

"So from Vietnam to Indonesia to Thailand to Singapore to Australia to New Zealand... the typical challenges around retention, attraction, margins, client dependency – all those types of things – are all the same," he says...