Wilson’s executive search team places high-impact leadership talent, working in partnership with clients to understand their cultures and long-term strategic goals. With a focus on in-depth research and candidate experience, Wilson’s consultants employ a collaborative approach with each client. The search team is also supported by the company’s global talent acquisition, technology and innovation leaders and leverages their expertise as needed – something that traditional search firms can’t match.
There are four customizable models within Wilson’s executive search solutions to help clients secure the leadership their businesses need to reach their goals:
RETAINED EXECUTIVE SEARCH
This end-to-end solution provides strategic support from our dedicated team to fill director-level and above roles within your organization, addressing both immediate and future hiring needs with unrivaled expertise.
PROJECT SEARCH SOLUTIONS
Our end-to-end executive search hiring support is available for executive staffing and leadership projects that require 10 or more director-level and above hires. This solution is popular with organizations that need to scale at speed, M&A related activity (including spin-offs, IPOs and divestments) and international expansions to ensure successful outcomes for your critical hires.
INTERIM EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Leveraging our extensive executive talent pipelines and world-renowned talent intelligence tools, we provide interim leadership talent at speed, minimizing disruption at your company.
MARKET INTELLIGENCE
Our comprehensive AI-powered talent intelligence solutions, which encompass supply and demand data, talent mapping, talent pipelining and compensation benchmarking, drives leadership strategy and succession planning, giving your organization a competitive advantage.
Our mission is to deliver business-impacting results for our clients. We are passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and this passion has gained the trust of some of the world’s largest businesses. We have built these relationships by investing in our people, driving innovation at all levels of our organization, and providing scale and flexibility to meet the unique needs of our clients.
Wilson’s executive search practice executes on global searches for clients across a variety of industries, including those in software, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, airlines, automotive, mobile applications and services, telecommunications, robotics, healthcare, life sciences, technology and logistics. Wilson’s executive search team has maintained a diversity hire rate greater than 50% in each year of operation. Additionally, Wilson’s executive search team delivers organizational buildouts, including finance and IT leadership teams. In 2024, Wilson was named to Hunt Scanlon Media’s 2024 ‘HR/Diversity Top 70’ search firms. Phil Brakewell, who leads Wilson’s executive search practice, has also been named to SIA’s Staffing 100 Europe for 2023 list. The annual list recognizes influential European staffing leaders boldly creating new pathways within the transforming workforce solutions ecosystem
Global talent solutions provider Wilson Human Capital Group Inc. (WilsonHCG) has expanded its executive search division with the appointment of director Phil Brakewell. He will serve as leader of the EMEA region. Mr. Brakewell has more than 14 years of talent acquisition leadership experience and most recently served as head of executive search for ResourceBank. Prior to that,
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