Executive recruitment for organisations navigating complexity and creating long-term impact.
We recruit chief executives, directors and senior leaders for organisations with a social purpose.
- years recruiting leadership teams
- 15+
Finding leaders for complex organisations
Leadership affects how organisations make decisions, respond to pressure and stay connected to their purpose.
For charities, education providers and other purpose-driven organisations, leadership often comes with competing demands. Executive teams manage financial pressure, workforce challenges and rising expectations from communities, funders and stakeholders, while continuing to lead organisations through change.
The strongest appointments come from understanding more than the role itself. We partner with you to understand your organisation, how your leadership team operates, and the environment you work in to determine what kind of leadership will genuinely help you move forward.
That often means looking beyond sector background or familiar career paths. Some of the most effective leaders bring experience from different environments and the judgement to lead through change.
Our approach to executive recruitment
Our executive search process starts with understanding your organisation, your leadership challenges and the context you are operating in.
We combine detailed research with a broad cross-sector network to identify leaders who bring the experience, perspective and leadership style your organisation needs. That often means reaching beyond the usual networks and engaging people who may not have considered your sector before.
We also take time to understand the wider context around the role, including leadership team relationships, organisational culture, governance and ambition.
We also represent your organisation with care. We bring the opportunity to life in a way that connects with the right people, while ensuring candidates and clients feel informed, respected and supported throughout the process.
Many of the organisations we work with return to us over time as their leadership needs evolve, from executive appointments through to interim leadership, board recruitment and wider organisational support.
Roles we recruit
Executive leadership
- Chief Executive Officers
- Managing Directors
- Executive Directors
- Deputy CEOs
Functional leadership
- Finance
- Fundraising
- Marketing & Communications
- Operations
- People & Culture
Education leadership
- Principals
- CEOs of MATs
- Vice Chancellors
- College principals and senior leadership teams
Let's work together
Whether you’re recruiting a chief executive, strengthening your senior team or planning for leadership change, we’d be happy to talk through what might help.