--- title: 1st Executive Blog | Strategy (3) description: Strategy | 1st Executive insight blogs (3) --- Call us 0438 074774 [![1st exec logo-2](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/hubfs/1st%20exec%20logo-2.png)](https://www.1stexecutive.com.au/) - [Home](https://1stexecutive.com.au/) - [Interim Management](https://1stexecutive.com.au/interim-management/) - [Executive Search](https://1stexecutive.com.au/executive-search/) - [Spengler Fox](https://1stexecutive.com.au/spengler-fox/) - [Develop Leaders](https://1stexecutive.com.au/develop-leaders/) - [Online Courses](https://1stexecutive.com.au/online-courses/) - [Performance Management](https://1stexecutive.com.au/performance-management/) - [Diagnostics](https://1stexecutive.com.au/diagnostics/) - [Business Healthcheck](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/business-health-check) - [Leadership Healthcheck](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/leaders-health-check) - [Systemic Transformation](https://1stexecutive.com.au/systemic-transformation/) - [Custom Recruitment](https://1stexecutive.com.au/custom-recruitment/) - [Cybersecurity](https://1stexecutive.com.au/cybersecurity/) - [Healthcare Recruitment](https://1stexecutive.com.au/healthcare-recruitment/) - [Psychometric Assessment](https://1stexecutive.com.au/psychometric-assessment/) - [Recruit a team](https://1stexecutive.com.au/recruit-a-team/) - [Insights](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/blog) # The 1st Executive #### Our Blog [![Are Australia’s foreign CEOs the tip of the iceberg?](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/blogjan04.png?width=810&name=blogjan04.png)](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/blog/are-australias-foreign-ceos-the-tip-of-the-iceberg) ## [Are Australia’s foreign CEOs the tip of the iceberg?](https://leaders.1stexecutive.com.au/blog/are-australias-foreign-ceos-the-tip-of-the-iceberg) The Executive Search discipline is increasingly international. 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