Six stages. Applied each time. Tailored every time.
A senior hire is the sum of many small judgments. Our process makes each of them deliberate.
Discovery
Understand the business, the team and the reason the role exists. The brief is written down before any search begins.
Calibration
Agree on what good looks like, the trade-offs, and the parts of the brief that are non-negotiable.
Market Understanding
Build a structured view of the relevant market: who is out there and how they will view the opportunity.
Assessment
Structured conversations and references that test for substance rather than polish.
Decision Support
Help the hiring manager and HR work through the decision: honest comparisons and the trade-offs that remain.
Closure
Offer, transition and onboarding handled with the same care as the search itself.
Process is in service of judgement, not a substitute for it.
Frameworks make the work consistent. Judgement makes the work useful. We hold to both, and we are clear about which one is doing the work at any given moment.
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