EXECUTIVE SEARCH · CONSULTING · STRATEGY · RESEARCH
India's Top Executive Search, Business Strategy & End-to-End Leadership Consulting Firm
One accountable partner for the decisions that shape your business's future. Across disciplines — end-to-end consultancy, executive search, interim leadership, business strategy & advisory, and primary research — Gladwin International finds the leaders, builds the businesses, sets the strategy, and does the first-hand research that grounds every call. 120+ Managing Partners, 1,500+ leadership placements, 50+ end-to-end business setups.
EXECUTIVE SEARCH · CONSULTING · STRATEGY · RESEARCH
India's Top Executive Search, Business Strategy & End-to-End Leadership Consulting Firm
One accountable partner for the decisions that shape your business's future. Across disciplines — end-to-end consultancy, executive search, interim leadership, business strategy & advisory, and primary research — Gladwin International finds the leaders, builds the businesses, sets the strategy, and does the first-hand research that grounds every call. 120+ Managing Partners, 1,500+ leadership placements, 50+ end-to-end business setups.
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How We Partner
Leaders Found. Businesses Built. Strategy Set.
The three practices boards and CEOs start with — the right leader in the seat, the whole business built end to end, and the advisory behind the decisions that shape your next decade.
Executive Search
Partner-Led Retained Search
Research-led retained search for CEO, C-suite and board mandates — owned end to end, from brief to onboarding, and backed by India's longest 12-month guarantee.
End-to-End Consultancy Services
Concept to Stabilised Opening
We don't advise on setting a business up — we set it up. One accountable partner from concept to a stabilised opening, across hospitality, wellness and education.
Leadership Strategy & Advisory Services
Board & CEO Advisory
Board- and CEO-level advisory for the leadership situations that don't fit an org chart — successions, step-ups, pivots and the calls that define the next decade.
The People Behind Every Mandate
Every mandate — finding the one leader who truly fits, standing a business up end to end, steering a board through a defining call — is conducted like an orchestra: every discipline, industry and leadership archetype playing in perfect harmony. Executive search is our founding instrument and still leads the score, with consultancy, interim leadership, strategy and primary research around it. Our team is our core strength: a bench of 120 CXOs drawn from 20 different industries — and it is what makes Gladwin International India's top C-Suite search and end-to-end business & leadership advisory firm.
Widely regarded as India's top CEO search consultant, Anandh leads every Chief Executive and board mandate — and serves as Principal Partner for the firm's CTO, CIO and CHRO practices.
Education: MBA, HR & International Business — Amity University, University of London & New York University
Coverage: Industry agnostic — India / Global searches
India's leading CFO search consultant, Manogna directs the firm's Chief Financial Officer mandates, serves as Principal Partner for the COO practice, and leads Gladwin International's Global CFO Practice.
Education: BE, Computer Science · MBA, Finance
Specialty: CFO hiring for IPO, M&A & JV scenarios
20 Industry Practices
Deep sector knowledge across India's most dynamic industries. Each practice is led by consultants with genuine domain expertise — not career recruiters, but former industry practitioners.
Every C-Suite Role.
Expertly Placed.
Our Proven Approach
When we set a business up, it runs as one phase-gated programme — eight disciplines, one accountable partner, from the first idea to open doors and a business that runs on its own.
Business Strategy
The commercial thesis, model and positioning the whole build will deliver against.
Market Research
First-hand market, demand and competitor intelligence — decisions grounded in evidence, not assumption.
Programme Design
Concept, master plan, phasing and operating model — strategy turned into a buildable programme.
Procurement Planning
Vendor strategy, tendering, contracts and capex discipline — the right partners on the right terms.
PMO & Governance
One accountable programme office holding timeline, budget, quality and risk together, phase by phase.
Executive Search
The leadership team and key hires in the seat — the people who run it after we hand over.
Training & Development
Standards, SOPs and team enablement so the operation runs to plan from day one.
Soft Launch
A controlled opening, snag resolution and stabilisation — from open doors to a business that runs on its own.
This is how we set a business up, end to end — explore End-to-End Consultancy
Where board-ready independent directors and the boards hiring them meet on merit.
A curated layer above the statutory databank — every director objectively assessed across three axes. Two sides, one verified pool.
Get assessed. Get seen by boards.
Turn a strong CV into an assessed, board-visible profile — surfaced to boards that are actively appointing.
- Complete the three-axis Gladwin assessment.
- Get listed in the directory with your assessed profile.
- Get matched to boards with open independent-director seats.
Assessment & listing · ₹29,500 incl. GST · $250 / year
Appoint on merit, from an assessed pool.
Start from a verified shortlist, not an unscreened long-list — every director is assessed before they ever appear.
- Search a pre-assessed pool by function, sector & city.
- See the evidence — per-axis assessment scores on every profile.
- Shortlist and contact directors directly.
Board Search Access · ₹29,500 incl. GST · $250 / year
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What Our Clients Say
Gladwin International understood our business and culture deeply before presenting candidates. The CEO they placed has driven a 40% revenue growth in 18 months.
Their CFO practice is genuinely best-in-class. They placed our CFO within 6 weeks — an exceptionally well-networked professional who hit the ground running.
The depth of their industry knowledge and the quality of their candidate network is unmatched. They've been our exclusive search partner for 8 years.
They didn't hand us a strategy deck and walk away — they built the resort with us, from the master plan to the day we opened the doors. One partner, one accountable team.
From the market study to procurement to the leadership team in seat, Gladwin ran it as a single programme. Our campus opened on time and on budget.
We had the capital and the ambition, but not the machinery to execute. Gladwin gave us both the plan and the people to stand the business up.
I was a strong operator stepping into my first CEO seat. Their advisory helped me see the role through the board's eyes — and land the step-up.
Choosing and preparing my successor was the hardest decision of my career. Gladwin gave the board a clear, unemotional path through it.
When our growth stalled, the instinct was to blame the market. Their read of the real leadership issue changed the entire conversation.
Moving from founder-led to institutional felt like losing control. Their board and leadership advisory made it feel like gaining it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Across our lead practices — Executive Search, End-to-End Consultancy Services, and Leadership Strategy & Advisory Services.
A typical retained C-suite search runs 45–60 days from briefing to accepted offer: discovery and role scoping (Week 1–2), market mapping and candidate-universe identification (Week 2–3), outreach, qualification and assessment (Week 3–5), shortlist and interviews (Week 5–7), and offer management to acceptance (Week 7–8). CEO and board-level mandates may take 60–75 days. You receive structured weekly pipeline updates throughout, and we do not close a search file until the right leader has actually joined.
It is the most comprehensive placement guarantee in the Indian executive search market. If a leader we place departs voluntarily or is asked to leave within 12 months of joining — for reasons of role fit, cultural alignment, or misrepresentation during the search — we conduct a full replacement search at no additional professional fee. The commitment is written into every engagement letter and applies across search, interim leadership and GCC placements.
Three commitments set us apart: (1) Domain depth — our consultants are former industry practitioners, not career recruiters, with genuine expertise across 20 industries and 16 C-suite functions. (2) The 12-Month Candidate Guarantee — India's longest. (3) Guaranteed Placement — we do not declare a mandate closed until the leader has joined. These are backed by a 50,000+ executive network built since 2010 and over 500 completed C-suite placements.
We do not advise on setting up a business — we set it up. A single, phase-gated programme runs all eight disciplines under one accountable partner: business strategy, market research, programme design, procurement planning, PMO & governance, executive search, training & development, and a soft launch. You go from an idea to an operating business with its team in seat, its systems live and its first customers served.
Our active practices are Hospitality (resorts, hotels, branded residences and clubs), Lifestyle & Wellness (fitness, studio and wellness chains), Education (schools and campuses from land to first admissions), and Automotive & Retail (luxury dealerships and premium retail). The same end-to-end model extends to healthcare, GCCs and other sectors on request.
Yes. The programme is modular — you can enter at a single workstream, such as the market study, the procurement plan or the executive search, without commissioning the whole build. That said, most of the value comes from running the disciplines as one phase-gated programme, so nothing falls between the seams of separate advisors. We will tell you honestly where a partial engagement makes sense and where it doesn't.
It is board- and CEO-level advisory for the leadership situations that don't fit an org chart — the stalls, step-ups, pivots and successions where the right call changes everything. Boards and CEOs engage us on company-level situations; individual leaders use our readiness diagnostics and situation library to prepare for and navigate their own C-suite moves. It draws on Gladwin's library of hundreds of real leadership situations.
They are complementary. Business Strategy handles the transaction, the operating model and the structure; Leadership Strategy & Advisory handles the people and governance that have to carry them — the leadership situations, readiness and board decisions. Many engagements draw on both, so the strategy and the leadership to deliver it are set together rather than in isolation.
Yes. The situation library and the board and CEO/CXO readiness diagnostics are open to explore on your own. When a specific call needs an outside partner — a succession, a step-up, a board transition or a leader who has stalled — we move into a confidential, partner-led advisory.