Recruiter-grade intelligence, strategy, and execution.
For professionals and executives navigating the AI economy: immediate market clarity, rigorous positioning, and a targeted access strategy to help you secure the right next seat, faster — with complete discretion.
Advisory for Individuals
Strictly Confidential. All individual engagements are fully discreet. We never contact your current employer or publish your details.
Market Scan
Clarity fast
Executive search firms build this exact intelligence at the start of every retained engagement. We build it for you, at a fraction of the cost.
For professionals who need immediate, grounded clarity on where they fit, what the market is telling them, and how to move with intent. Delivered in 2–3 working days.
You leave with:
- A ranked view of target roles and companies that realistically fit your profile
- Compensation benchmarks based on current hiring activity, not outdated surveys
- Clear signal on where you are strong vs. where you may be misaligned
- A focused 2-week action plan to regain momentum immediately
Career
Offensive
Deeper support
Builds on Market Scan
For Directors, Heads of Function, senior managers, and experienced individual contributors who want to move beyond passive applications and run a deliberate, targeted search campaign.
This is where we apply recruiter-grade thinking to your search — how roles are actually filled, not how job seekers are told to apply.
Scope may include:
- 3 x 45-minute calls
- 3 x Market Scan Reports, over the course of 45 days
- Target company and role mapping based on real hiring patterns
- Stakeholder visibility: hiring managers, recruiters, decision-makers
- Outreach strategy designed for response — not ignored applications
- LinkedIn and CV repositioning aligned to how decision-makers assess candidates
- Interview preparation grounded in real panel expectations
- Deep-dive analysis of newly minted Unicorns for high-upside equity capture
- Optional accountability partner: scheduled action prompts and weekly execution checkpoints
Executive
Command
High-stakes transitions
Builds on Career Offensive
For VPs, SVPs, C-suite leaders, GMs, Country Leads, Founders, and senior Directors managing confidential, complex, or high-stakes transitions.
This is a discreet, high-touch partnership — combining market intelligence, positioning, access strategy, and negotiation support.
Includes:
- 120 days of high-touch, dedicated transition advisory
- Company dossier packs
- Executive positioning
- Board/C-suite interview preparation
- Offer negotiation war room
- Salary, bonus, RSU and option benchmarking
- Equity modelling and package comparison
- Cross-border, relocation, tax and legal referral support
- Reference orchestration
- Executive accountability partner: proactive WhatsApp nudges, calendar items, and daily/weekly execution checkpoints
Compare all 50+ intelligence features, data enrichment limits, and strategic deliverables across our advisory tiers.
Tailored Transition
Pathways.
Career transitions are rarely linear. A senior leader exploring a move to a smaller company may also be weighing a board advisory portfolio. A technologist considering public sector impact may simultaneously be evaluating fractional consulting. The reality is that most professionals in transition are navigating two or three of these pathways at once — testing assumptions, narrowing options, and looking for the signal that tells them where they belong next.
That complexity is not a problem to solve. It is the problem we were built for.
Our advisory is structured around seven distinct transition archetypes. Each represents a pattern we see repeatedly in the senior professionals we work with. Your Market Scan, strategy calls, and execution plan are shaped by whichever pathways apply to you — because the best career intelligence doesn't force you into a single lane. It maps the territory and helps you choose.
Same Job Type
For professionals who know exactly what they do and want to keep doing it — but in a stronger position. You are not pivoting. You are competing in a market that has changed around you, and you need updated positioning, AI fluency, and a search strategy built for how hiring actually works today. This is about sharpening the blade, not changing direction.
Often driven by: A desire for better compensation, escaping a toxic culture, or an unexpected layoff where the goal is a rapid, strategic return to familiar territory.
Strategic Career Pivot
Translating domain knowledge into a compelling narrative for high-growth adjacent roles within the same sector. We help you map your existing expertise to new titles, bridge the gap in perception, and position your lateral move as a deliberate, high-value transition.
Often driven by: Hitting a growth ceiling in your current function, or recognising that an adjacent role offers stronger long-term equity and leverage.
Full Career Reinvention
Architecting a total professional identity shift, mapping skills directly into an entirely new target sector. We rebuild your professional narrative from the ground up, proving your value to decision-makers who don't yet speak your language.
Often driven by: Industry burnout, a profound shift in personal priorities, or the realisation that your legacy sector is permanently contracting.
Contract & Advisory
Shifting away from full-time employment into a portfolio of fractional or advisory roles and Board seats. We help you package your accumulated expertise into discrete, marketable advisory offerings and target the founders and boards who need them.
Often driven by: A desire for autonomy, a recent liquidity event, or a conscious uncoupling from the 60-hour corporate grind.
Entrepreneurial Launchpad
For leaders ready to exit corporate life and position their expertise to successfully launch their own venture. We provide the market intelligence and strategic framing to help you transition from employee to founder with confidence and clarity.
Often driven by: Spotting an unserved market need during your corporate tenure, or finally securing the financial runway to build on your own terms.
Leadership Ascent
Crafting the strategic narrative and executive presence required to secure a step-up into the C-Suite. This pathway focuses heavily on stakeholder mapping, executive-level interview preparation, and demonstrating readiness for enterprise-wide impact.
Often driven by: Being passed over internally, or recognising that your current organisation cannot accommodate your ambition for the top table.
Public & Mission-Driven Transition
For experienced professionals drawn toward roles where impact is measured in policy, public outcomes, or societal change rather than revenue. This pathway covers moves into government, semi-state bodies, regulatory agencies, NGOs, international organisations, healthcare, education, and mission-driven enterprises.
Whether navigating PAS/publicjobs.ie in Ireland, Civil Service Jobs in the UK, or USAJobs, we help translate commercial leadership experience into the specific language, networks, and rigorous application processes these jurisdictions require — because the skills transfer, but the playbook does not.
Often driven by: A fundamental desire for legacy-building impact and public service over commercial scale and revenue targets.
Most people sit across two or three.
Most of the professionals we work with are exploring multiple pathways simultaneously. Your Market Scan is built around all of them.
"A recent client — a VP of Engineering with 18 years in SaaS — explored pathways across Same Role, Public Sector, and Contract & Advisory before committing to a firm direction after their second Market Scan."