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About Us

Who are we?

Founded in 2003 and privately owned, we are a specialist London based Executive Search firm. Our focus is the placement of top flight Business Strategists into Strategic Consulting and Industry positions.
Each of our Executive Search consultants possesses a minimum 10 years of experience gained within the strategic resourcing marketplace coupled with extensive prior experience as a Management Consultant.

We are the dedicated adviser of choice for firms seeking insight, counsel, appraisal and delivery of their business strategist recruitment needs.

Who are our clients?

Our primary client focus is the London and frequently Global offices of leading Strategy Houses and Boutiques and Multinational Corporations. For the latter this includes hires at Board level, in-house Corporate Strategy and splintered Business Unit Strategy functions. We also act for Private Equity firms, Non-Profit Organisations, Entrepreneurial Businesses and Family Owned Companies.

Our service offering assumes relevance to existing or prospective clients seeking to identify, appraise and hire an exceptionally talented individual with a strategic profile in one or more industry practices. This requirement may either be for a pure strategist, C-Suite business leader with a strategic background or a baseline strategy executive with expertise spanning additional functional practices.

Our clients are firms who commonly express a preference for hiring a candidate from a pure Strategy House background, a pure in-house Industry strategic background or a hybrid combination of both.

Over two thirds of our engagements originate from existing clients and we aim to exceed client expectations at all times.

Why do our clients choose us?

Clients choose us for our unrivalled specialist knowledge, experience and reach within the local and international strategic marketplaces.

Our clients share a common goal in actively seeking a cross cultural candidate profile that offers the highest standards of excellence and achievement from a work, academic, extra-curricular and personal character perspective. In short, we give our clients what they want. This is achieved by partnering and collaborating with the client from the outset to offer a highly professional service that is consultative, rather than sales-based. This is our mission.

We recognise that both our consulting and industry clients compete with each other for the same business. By contrast, each of their approaches to work, methodologies, toolkits, culture, values, career progression paths and job titles is inherently different. We add value by leveraging our specialist organisational knowledge to place talented individuals within environments in which they will flourish. Whether their industry expertise is generalist or sector specific, this approach creates positive synergies between client and employee. The result is a firm foundation that helps our clients to form long lasting mutually beneficial relationships with their employees.

What differentiates us from the competition?

The provision of business strategists is our sole focus and we do not dilute this service offering. This ensures that we provide our clients with the most suitable individual that the marketplace has to offer – whether the requirement may be for a pure strategist or C-Suite business leader with a strategic background.

Each of our Executive Search consultants possesses a minimum 10 years of experience gained within the strategic resourcing marketplace coupled with extensive prior experience as a Management Consultant. As such we maintain the veritable advantage of being able to offer clients profound market insight backed by an additional security blanket when appraising a potential hire.

Our candidate appraisal process is supplemented by a Competency-Based Interviewing (CBI) approach to screening and meticulously detailed verbal and written candidate appraisals. At the end of each and every search we conduct a review of the end to end process in order to continually evolve and improve upon our client service model. Our highly professional service allows clients 24/7/365 access to their Tier One consultant.

In addition to our traditional Executive Search service, where appropriate, we are able to offer Advertised selection and Contingency service offerings for clients.

Candidates preparing for interview will benefit from our company-specific knowledge, access to an abundance of preparatory interview / case study resources and detailed feedback that we have gathered from other candidates who have been through the process.

We actively solicit candidate feedback to ensure their complete satisfaction with our service.

On a personal note…

“We delight in providing both our clients and candidates with the highest standards of service possible. We welcome the opportunity to speak with you. Feel free to contact us today.”

Tier One

Executive Search for Strategists

Founded in 2003 and privately owned, we are a specialist London based Executive Search firm. Our focus is the placement of top flight Business Strategists into Strategic Consulting and Industry positions.