Approach
Three phases. One partner. No handoffs.
Before a single call is made, we do the work most firms skip. Then we build the market from scratch, and we stay in the room past the offer letter.
Discern
We interview the board, the owner and the team the leader will inherit. We define what success looks like at twelve months, not just what the resume should say.
- •Stakeholder listening sessions across the organisation
- •A written success profile, agreed before launch
- •A mapped market: who exists, who performs, who moves
Search
Original research on every mandate. We build the market from scratch rather than recycling a database, and we approach leaders who are performing, not just looking.
- •First calibrated shortlist in 21 days
- •Written progress reporting, every week, no silence
- •Structured interviews scored against the success profile
Steward
The offer is the midpoint, not the finish. We run deep referencing, guide the negotiation on both sides of the table, and stay in the room through onboarding and the first year.
- •Reference work that goes beyond the provided list
- •Offer and transition guidance for client and candidate
- •Structured check-ins through the first year
If the leader we place does not last twelve months, we run the search again.
Not a credit against future work. Not a partial refund that leaves you back at the beginning with a smaller budget. A second full search, on the same standards, at no additional professional fee.
We put it in writing before we start because the guarantee is not a closing device. It is the reason we are willing to tell you when a candidate is impressive and still wrong.
A full year, not a probationary quarter
Twelve months is long enough for the hire to be tested by a real cycle. A short guarantee only protects the firm that wrote it.
Signed before the first call
The terms are in the engagement letter you sign at the start, not in a conversation you have to remember a year later.
You are never guessing where it stands
Written reporting every week from launch to close. If the market says the profile is wrong, you hear it in week one, while it is still cheap to change.