About Us

The Harvey Nash International Executive Search organisation is an integral part of the Harvey Nash plc Consulting Services division. Established over 20 years ago the organisation has grown to be a distinctive force in international Executive Search and Leadership Services across the key territories of North America, Europe and Scandinavia. We engage with organisations of every size and denomination and provide the reach of a service that befits an international organisation, with the touch, sensitivity and specialism of the high customer service associated with boutique consultancies. We assist organisations in developing and managing their talent, both in the acquisition of new talent and the development of their employees and team performance. Our clients include some of the largest multinationals worldwide and also specialist start-ups in the high technology sectors. We have extensive experience in working with government and the third sector organisations and for all clients we have a track record of success in attracting candidates to accept opportunities from outside sector or across international borders.

Our international organisation is fully integrated, our research teams are in-house and connected through a common database and have an inbred culture of working together. This enables us to apply our unique major account structure that balances single point relationships for clients, with the ability to provide specialist capability across international borders. We can also bring very specialist expertise in specific functional disciplines or initial assessment or organisational development. We are commended for the cohesion and single focus that we bring to our international clients and to the resources we can bring to bear on our domestic clients who seek expertise from overseas to help create their world- class organisations.

Specifically, we have three key service lines;

• Executive Search – We specialise in the recruitment of the board-level executives of today and the high-potential managers who will become tomorrow's industry leaders. Our international presence enables us to serve our clients seamlessly across geographical borders.

• Board Services – Our team works with Chairmen, Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executives and Board Directors providing a variety of services including board recruitment, evaluation and assessment and remuneration.

• Leadership Services – We work closely with our clients on issues of succession planning, evaluation and development of leaders. This is a bespoke service tailored specifically on the clients’ requirements where we are able to introduce a range of services from executive coaching to career management.
  
  

We are organised into market facing practices. This allows our consultants and research teams to develop extensive knowledge of the business and market dynamics of a particular sector and to extend this knowledge into the candidate network. This not only allows us to apply insightful consultancy and expertise where we understand the business dynamics, constraints and challenges a client faces, but we can also take this understanding into the candidate community and target specific expertise that can enhance the immediate and long term performance of our client’s organisation. Furthermore, our integrated approach allows us also to identify best functional practice that sometimes exists outside of the client’s sector and with our knowledge we can move this expertise into our clients to substantially move them forward and provide competitive edge in their markets.

We pride ourselves on our candidate community and vigorously work with the candidates to ensure that roles they are considering are attractive and provide a successful next step in their career management. Our culture is one of absolute openness and integrity with our candidate community, based on the passionate belief that a successful appointment is only safe and successful when all three parties are fundamentally in agreement.

Fully integrated and also aligned with the International Executive Search organisation is our interim management division, Impact Executives, a leading provider of highly experienced executives who can provide immediate highly expert support in matters of transformation, assessment and strategic planning.

If you are looking for interim solutions, our interim management division, Impact Executives is a leading provider of highly experienced executives for immediate hands-on support for short periods.