Pacific International Executive Search offers the following services working collaboratively across three offices to deliver the best outcomes and value to its clients.

Executive Search: As a retained Executive Search firm established in 1997, Pacific has been helping leading companies build outstanding teams that transform their performance while championing diversity and inclusion. Whether you have a confidential mandate, a niche search, a specialist role or a senior-level appointment, Pacific is your trusted talent acquisition partner.

C-suite Executive Search: In today’s rapidly changing business landscape entering the Era of AI, success demands a different kind of leader—one who combines shared humility, resilience, and a clear sense of purpose with achieving business goals. Pacific International possesses extensive expertise in these evolving dynamics and can guide you toward C-suite appointments that not only share your vision and purpose but also deliver tangible results for the present and the future.

Female Leaders and Diversity Strategies: We believe that when diverse leaders reach the top echelons of the corporate ladder, they start building more inclusive leadership teams. Pacific International partners with many leading and growing companies to:

• Build diverse C-suite and leadership teams
• Help formulate their DEI strategies
• Create diverse talent pipelines

Succession Planning: Whether you are looking to build a long-term leadership pipeline or react to a sudden departure, we can support you through the transition. We use objective criteria, based on our industry knowledge and understanding of your leadership roles to help design, improve, and implement effective emergency and long-term succession plans so that you have the talent ready to step up when required.

Leadership Skills Assessment: Pacific International is a Hogan-Certified company. Skills Assessments provide an in-depth look at a leader’s performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers. They also help:

• Eliminate Bias
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• Reduce Time-to-hire
• Minimize Staff Turnover
• Create a Strong Culture
• Build a High-impact Team

Hogan’s personality assessments have been validated in countries all over the globe. This means their personality and performance metrics integrate different cultural norms and personality traits. They help predict performance and cultivate strategic self-awareness.

Leadership Coaching and Onboarding: Grounded in the principle that “finding talent is the beginning,” the service addresses one of the most common and costly points of failure in organisations: leadership transitions. Even highly capable executives can underperform in their first 90–180 days if they do not quickly build credibility, align with culture, and clarify expectations. Leadership Coaching & Onboarding is designed to reduce that risk, accelerate time to impact, support the development of internal leadership pipelines, and protect the significant investment a senior hire represents.

Two features set the Pacific’s offering apart. First, Pacific’s coaching bench includes experienced, accredited operator-coaches, former C-suite and senior-level leaders who have carried a P&L, led through transformation, and sat in the seats their coachees now occupy. Second, for leaders placed by Pacific, the firm can connect assessment data and interview feedback from the search process directly into the coaching engagement, giving the coach a head start and deepening the impact of the work, a continuity from hire to onboarding that few search firms can offer.

The service is delivered through three tailored coaching solutions:

• Leadership Onboarding Coaching: accelerates time to impact in the first 90–180 days, reduces early-stage derailment risk, and provides a confidential sounding board for a newly appointed leader during a politically sensitive period.
• Strategic Leadership Coaching: supports leaders stepping up in scope, scale, or complexity, helping them shift from expert or individual contributor to enterprise leader and strengthening the succession pipeline.
• C-Suite & Executive Coaching: provides a trusted, independent thinking partner at the most senior level, supporting executives through high-stakes decisions, board dynamics, and major strategic shifts such as transformation, restructuring, and M&A.

Recent Placements

• Appointing a Senior Marketing Director to Relaunch a Carved-Out PE-backed Metering Business
• Appointing a General Manager to Launch a $300 Million Greenfield Semiconductor Facility
• Confidential Search: Appointing a Regional VP to Accelerate Scalable Growth
• From Critical Hire to COO in 90 Days in a High Growth PE Backed Business
• Appointing a Director of Operational Excellence to Enable Rapid Production Scale Up in Canada
• Appointing a CFO to Take the Private Aviation Company Public
• Placing Director of EHS at a Water Infrastructure Company
• Confidential Search for VP of People Operations at a Fortune 500 Company
• Appointing a CFO at a PE-backed Restoration Services Company
• Global Director of Program and Portfolio Management
• Director of Business Development & Partnerships to Facilitate Digital Transformation