NewsNTech
The central operating constraint in a global network of independent professional services firms is that no headquarters can issue commercial directives: member firms choose how to collaborate and which capabilities to adopt.
That voluntary architecture creates a specific problem, because growth at the network level requires alignment mechanisms that substitute for the authority a corporate parent would simply exercise.
Crowe Global, the international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, created a role built around exactly that mechanism on July 22, 2026, appointing Josh Cole as its new Growth Leader.
The role and its stated scope Crowe Global describes the Growth Leader position as new to its executive structure.
Keep reading