Executive search + leadership integration
Senior appointments,made once.And landed properly.
We help boards, CEOs and investors appoint senior leaders and scarce experts across technology-driven industries, and can support their integration once they arrive.
Contact a partnerOur approach ↗Searches across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
The Lumen partner-led approach
You can replace a leader. You cannot replace the time.
In technology-driven businesses a wrong appointment costs far more than a fee. It shows up as delayed milestones, missed customer commitments, an industrialisation step that slips and a slow loss of investor confidence. By the time that is visible, it has burned the one asset boards cannot recover: time.
The Lumen partner-led approach is built to get the match right the first time. Where time to impact matters, the Leadership Launchpad accelerates a new leader’s landing.
The Lumen partner-led approach ↗ The Leadership Launchpad ↗Why an outside partner
Two questions worth asking before you appoint us.
Why not one of the global firms?
At the largest firms the partner who wins the mandate is often not the person who makes the candidate calls. The work moves to an associate and a research desk, and the senior judgement you thought you bought appears at the shortlist meeting.
We run fewer mandates at a time so that the same partner carries the whole assignment. Reach is not the trade-off: our searches run across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.
Why not do it internally?
For most hiring, a strong internal team is the better choice. For a senior role in a scarce market, the job advertisement has become the weak point. It attracts hundreds of applications, many written with AI to mirror the profile, and it misses the leaders who matter most: the ones not looking.
We work the other way round. We start from the market, assess the track record of every relevant leader, including at your competitors, and approach them personally and in confidence, sometimes before the role formally exists. You meet the few who pass a partner's evaluation. In the offer we hold the neutral seat, with compensation insight across many companies rather than one.
Explore
How we work, and where.
Approach
Five stages, one partner responsible from first stakeholder interview to landing.
Leadership Launchpad
A 30, 60 and 90 day programme that shortens a new leader’s time to impact.
Sectors
High tech, industrial tech, clean tech, med tech, fin tech and defence tech.
Insights
What we see, written from live work.
Partners
Four partners, one way of working.
Contact
Start a confidential conversation with a partner.