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Executive Search: Retained C-suite and board search — permanent, interim and advisory.

12 Months
Candidate Guarantee
Flat 15%
Fee — Affordable for companies of every size
2 Weeks
Quick turnaround (TAT)
C‑Suite Vetted
Assessed and vetted by C‑suite leaders
50,000+
C‑suite leaders & directors — registered members of our proprietary platform
23
Industries
17
Business Functions

Shaping leadership stories into a visible, trusted brand.

Boards, chairs and search firms look you up before the first conversation. We build the leadership website, Social Branding and positioning that make sure they find the right story, told the way you would tell it.

  • Executive website

    A distinguished site in your name, from 300 designs (30 layouts, each in 10 palettes).

  • LinkedIn review

    Headline, About and experience rewritten to one clear positioning.

  • Positioning

    The leadership thesis that ties your story together.

  • Re-positioning

    For the next chapter: board, sector or role transition.

  • Speaking

    Topics, abstracts and, with Royale, active pitching to the right stages.

Three packages: Advantage, Signature and Royale. For CEOs, CFOs and every C-suite role, and for independent directors.

A Royale leadership website design
A Signature leadership website design
An Advantage leadership website design

Your next mandate, found in silence.

The world's most discreet job search agent for CXOs. Whisper scans the market on your behalf, around the clock, and decodes every signal against your career — delivered privately, in absolute confidence.

The Job Search Agent

What Whisper reads
  • Leadership changes
  • Board announcements
  • Regulatory filings
  • Funding rounds
  • M&A activity
  • IPO activity
  • Real-time news
  • Conferences & tenders
  • Reads the whole market

    Every signal that hints at a seat at your level — long before it becomes a mandate.

  • Tells no one

    Your employer, your network and the market never see that you are looking.

  • Decoded for your career

    Each signal is weighed against your record, so you act only on the ones that fit.

What a hundred search firms together can't see — delivered to you. Privately.

For NRI leaders coming back to India

Career Advisory & Job Search, for the leader coming home.

Crossing back is not a relocation — it is a reinvention of how the market sees you. India's leadership market has its own rhythm: promoter dynamics, listed-company governance, GCC scale and a different pace of trust. We translate global credibility into India-relevant positioning, and walk you to the right mandate.

The return
  1. Re-entry diagnostic

    Your sector, function, seniority and family constraints, set into a realistic 6–18 month arc.

  2. India positioning

    Your global story rebuilt for promoters, chairs and investors who may not know your company by heart.

  3. Compensation & role design

    Grounded ranges and incentive norms across listed, private, PE-backed, GCC and global-in-India roles.

  4. Landing & integration

    Early credibility wins and stakeholder mapping in India's operating context — family and schooling included.

Job search services

The right mandate, before you land.

  • Honest mapping of the role archetypes that will pay for your record
  • A mandate pathway sequenced to where credibility transfers fastest
  • Confidential soundings and introductions — your current role protected
  • Offer evaluation against your global baseline
Leadership Advisory Services · Career growth

From the function to the whole company.

The step from CFO to CEO — or COO, CTO, CMO or CHRO to the top job — is rarely won on performance alone. Boards appoint the leader they can already see in the seat. We help you become that leader, and be seen as one, before the seat opens.

An empty corner office, two armchairs and a desk before tall windows onto a garden

CFO → CEO

The step up, planned

The engagement
  1. Private discovery

    Confidential sessions on your role, board posture, constraints and the chapter you privately want next.

  2. The gap, named

    An honest read of how chairs, promoters and nominating committees see you today — and what the top job asks.

  3. A three-year architecture

    The capabilities, rooms and visibility to build, in order, so the seat is open when you are ready.

  4. Selective market engagement

    No broadcast CVs. The right conversations, offer design and first-year landing counsel.

Client Voices

Results, in our clients' words.

A railway viaduct crossing a green valley

8 months

An entire leadership rebuilt

Executive Search
Gladwin International carried our entire transformation seamlessly. In eight months they appointed our MD & CEO, CFO, General Counsel and CHRO, brought in multiple Project Directors, and built our finance team around them — one partner, accountable for every seat.
Listed Infrastructure & Construction MajorEngineering, procurement and construction · India
  • MD & CEO
  • CFO
  • General Counsel
  • CHRO
  • Project Directors
  • Finance team
01 / 09

Frequently Asked Questions

Across Executive Search, The Leadership Narrative, The Apex 100, Whisper, and our NRI and Leadership Advisory services.

One flat 15% Search Fee on every mandate, at every level — affordable for companies of every size. Nothing less, nothing more. Every search carries our 12-Month Candidate Guarantee: if a leader we place leaves within 12 months of joining, we run the full replacement search at no additional professional fee. It is written into every engagement letter.

Our turnaround (TAT) is two weeks: within two weeks of your briefing you are meeting assessed leaders. A retained C-suite search then typically runs 45–60 days to an accepted offer — scoping, market mapping, assessment, shortlist and offer — with a weekly pipeline update throughout; CEO and board mandates run 60–75 days. We do not close a search file until the leader has actually joined.

Every candidate is assessed and vetted by C-suite leaders. Our consultants are former industry practitioners, not career recruiters, across 23 industries and 17 business functions. They search our own proprietary platform — where more than 50,000 C-suite leaders and directors are registered members — and the wider market, backed by over 500 C-suite placements since 2010.

Your leadership website, Social Branding and positioning, done as one. A website in your name from the world's best leadership website collection — 300 designs (30 layouts, each in 10 palettes) — or built to order; Social Branding, beginning with a LinkedIn review that rewrites your headline, About and experience to one clear positioning; your leadership positioning, and re-positioning for the next chapter; and speaking support. Your web presence is developed within 5 working days. Three packages — Advantage, Signature and Royale — for CEOs, CFOs, every C-suite role and independent directors.

A career managed the way a fortune is. A family office manages capital across a horizon, whether or not anything is being bought; The Apex 100 does the same for one leader at a time — a named Principal carries your trajectory for the year, and pursues by hand. It has five Circles — CEO, CFO, CIO & CTO, CHRO and CMO — of one hundred seats each.

Every seat begins with a conversation, not a checkout. Admission has five steps: a referral or a direct approach; a short application (no company name is asked for, and no employer is ever contacted); a forty-minute admission interview with the Principal who would carry you; the Charter, signed by you and your Principal; and the seat itself. When a Circle is full, the next application waits for a seat to be vacated — it is never resolved by adding a member.

Whisper is the most discreet job search agent for CXOs. It reads the whole market on your behalf, around the clock — leadership changes, board announcements, regulatory filings, funding rounds, M&A and IPO activity, real-time news, and conferences and tenders — and decodes each signal against your record, so you act only on the seats that fit, long before they become mandates. It tells no one: your employer, your network and the market never see that you are looking.

The return runs in four movements. A re-entry diagnostic sets your sector, function, seniority and family constraints into a realistic 6–18 month arc. India positioning rebuilds your global story for promoters, chairs and investors who may not know your company by heart. Compensation and role design grounds your expectations across listed, private, PE-backed, GCC and global-in-India roles. Landing and integration secures early credibility in India's operating context — family and schooling included.

We bring leaders home from the UAE and Dubai, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Australia, Germany, Hong Kong and Qatar, into CEO, CFO, CHRO, CTO and CIO roles. The search is confidential: an honest map of the role archetypes that will pay for your record, a mandate pathway sequenced to where credibility transfers fastest, quiet soundings and introductions, and offer evaluation against your global baseline — your current role protected until you choose to move.

Every step from the function to the whole company: Business Head to CXO; CMO, CHRO, CTO or CIO, COO and CFO to CEO (and CHRO to the board); first-time CEOs; and CXOs moving onto boards. The step is rarely won on performance alone — boards appoint the leader they can already see in the seat — so we help you become that leader, and be seen as one, before the seat opens.

In four parts: a private discovery of your role, board posture, constraints and the chapter you want next; the gap, named — how chairs, promoters and nominating committees see you today against what the top job asks; a three-year architecture of capabilities, rooms and visibility to build, in order; and selective market engagement — no broadcast CVs. You can begin with a booked engagement: two 60-minute conversations with a senior partner and a written repositioning roadmap with a 90-day plan, yours to act on with or without us.