Executive Search for Consultancies
Partner, principal, project lead — in consulting it is decided early who takes on responsibility. And exactly where leadership begins, the air gets thin for women. When your shortlist is ready, it is almost all men.
The bottleneck is not the candidates. It is the pyramid.
At entry level, consultancies reached parity long ago. At partner level they have not. Anyone looking for a woman as partner, principal or director today is drawing on a market that has been thinned out over years — not for lack of talent, but through mid-career exits.
That is where we start: with women who left consulting and want to return, with women in in-house functions — and with those who sit at a competitor and are not looking at all.
Three fields, every level
IT consulting, strategy consulting, business consulting — plus the in-house consulting units of large corporations. We fill roles in all four fields, from senior consultant to partner.
What we do: We know the career logic of consulting, the difference between up-or-out and expert tracks, and the reasons women leave. That keeps conversations with candidates short and honest.
The result: A shortlist of women who know the pace of consulting — and want it.
Direct approach instead of job ads
The candidates you are looking for do not read job ads. They are engaged, well paid and their employers work hard to keep them. They can be reached personally — and only with an argument that goes beyond salary.
What we do: We identify the women who already carry the responsibility you are hiring for and approach them directly. Discreetly, without routing anything through your company.
Filled internationally
Consulting mandates rarely stop at national borders. We have filled partner and principal roles for locations across Europe and Asia, among them Russia, China and Romania.
If your position requires international mobility, that is not an exception for us.
Let us talk about your position.
Whether a position is filled by a woman is decided at the beginning, not at the end — in how the role is cut, in the requirements profile and in who is approached in the first place. We are glad to discuss that before you award a mandate.
Mandates from consulting
A selection of the positions we have filled. Hover over the cards to see them. We never name our clients.