As industry experts, our role is to support innovation and growth​​ by bringing the most dynamic leaders to our client companies. Our impact through placing CEOs, CBOs, exceptional brand leaders, digital talent and creative directors, has increased our client’s profitability, shareholder value, brand health and relevance. Above all, we place exceptional people that develop strong cultures and empower talent, resulting in higher performance and retention. We consistently excel when engaged in long term, highly strategic relationships that curate dynamic and transformational senior leadership teams. Many of our clients have worked with us for over 15 years, building key creative and business leadership teams.

Given the different stages of a brand’s development, we are collaborative partners with client leadership in assessing the short, mid and longer term needs of an organization’s strategy and structure, using the lens of talent and the requirements for creating fewer siloes and cross-functional teams. In many of these instances, we begin this work as Phase One Advisory Services. This approach, which takes place over a 6 week period, enables CEOs to explore their short and long-term strategies in the context of a variety of strategic talent options before launching an exhaustive search. Critical to Phase One work is access to our expansive network and experience in working with a broad range of companies and industry sectors. This stage provides clients further clarity on the organization and talent required to drive their strategic agenda.

Our international presence, with expert teams equally focused on executive and creative leadership, has allowed us to play an important role in building some of the world’s most exciting and profitable brands. All of our search assignments are conducted on a retained, exclusive basis.

Global Brands

As industry experts, we are able to bring the past and the future together to help examine, select and implement the most effective business or organizational model to help take your company into the future. The evolving dynamics across multiple industries require teams, structures and operations that are less siloed, steeped in consumer centricity and operate on highly digital, direct-to-consumer platforms. Additionally, brands must have a real reason to exist and they must stand for something that is authentic and important to their communities. These two pillars are critical to future-proofing brands, and require bringing on board the right new technologies, innovative approaches to engaging consumers, exceptional creative ideas and products, and new supply chains that do less harm to the planet and are more respectful of their workers. As many startup companies have rapidly become bigger players, and will continue to disrupt as long as they have the right leaders and resources, it is important that established brands of scale put leadership teams and strategies in place, to continue to succeed in future generations.

Our Advisory Services provide a comprehensive approach to these new imperatives, leveraging our eco-system and experience, while providing access to some of the largest technology companies that are changing the way we work, and the startups that are innovating and solving problems quickly. These projects are taken on a limited basis and are designed around the unique needs of the brand or business.

Emerging Companies

Advisory Services also provides support to new companies interested in building a bigger footprint in the consumer goods sector. These might include brands that are built on the premise of sustainability, or those that utilize a new way of creating and distributing a widely used product or service. Additionally, we selectively advise companies launching new technologies or methodologies for the fashion and retail sector. Even though there are many core disconnects in how companies and products are built between these sectors, the fact remains that today they are interdependent. Our Advisory Services for technology companies helps founders, investors and innovators formulate their strategies, presentations, and business development approaches so that they can speak the language of the industry’s business leaders, and eliminate the roadblocks to partnering with this industry, overall. In select cases, we participate in the business development component by making introductions to our c-level network for companies we believe could be a good fit for a client’s needs. We also serve as a gateway to potential investment and company assessment, for emerging companies that fit the criteria of our business partners, Labora.

Organizational transformation can only take place when individual and group mindsets shift, and storytelling is a powerful tool for creating change. The most effective leaders are those who are highly skilled at taking teams on a journey of their vision for innovation. Great storytelling is also the key to effective presentation and to breaking down the barriers that prevent innovation. Without question, the creative leaders who are passionate about sharing their work, are more likely to get their best ideas, product designs and brand vision across the line with key colleagues.

While Storytelling is an art, it can also be taught. It’s important to understand that there is no one right way to tell a story, but there is a method for defining the right style for each individual. Our Storytelling Workshops are developed on a selective and customized basis, for innovation-driven companies that recognize that engaging multiple teams in big ideas are the pathway to their ability to make the biggest global impact on their brands, businesses and consumers.