Tyzack Partners: Delivering Leaders for a Changing World

Tyzack works with Boards and leadership teams to ensure that the highest priority is given to – and achieved by – the successful identification, attraction, development and retention of the most talented people in our clients’ markets.

Effective executive search demands a deep understanding of the position and profile of the ideal candidate. Providing the right person for the right job ensures the full value of the assignment is delivered.

Our experience of executive and non-executive appointments spans numerous continents, markets and leadership functions. We work across different legislative and governance regimes, recruit for public and private companies and repeatedly deliver strategically transformational appointments. Our completion rate over the last three years is in excess of 95% of assignments started and over 90% of those successful candidates are still in post.

Whilst our approach combines thoroughness, creativity and a real sense of urgency, we pride ourselves on clear communication and a diverse mindset. We are equally rigorous in the way we handle candidates, balancing respect for their aspirations with honest feedback and advice.

Our Partners bring to each of their specialist practice areas substantial executive search experience and detailed knowledge of the markets in which they operate.

We undertake structured references on our candidates as part of the search process. However, we are also able to offer this service to clients in respect of potential hires who have been identified from other sources, thus providing additional rigour to the process.

We are able to provide candidate assessment services, using a variety of psychometric assessment tools which can provide additional information on a candidate for a client, often helping to smooth the path of a new appointee.

It is useful at certain stages in an organisation’s development to conduct an audit of the skills and capabilities of the existing team, to ensure that they are best able to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them. Our skilled team of HR practitioners and others can help to advise on the best way in which this can be handled to avoid disruption and get the team onboard with the process. They are then able to put in place the relevant developmental and coaching support to ensure the continued success of the team.

In the current regime of corporate governance, regular board effectiveness reviews are increasingly required by shareholders. We are able to arrange for skilled practitioners to undertake these reviews, while maintaining the independence of the process.

Mentors have typically been in the shoes where the client now stands. They have been there and worn the T-shirt. Mentors can share with their mentees their experience and insights. A good mentor will be a trusted advisor, critical friend, and ally, joining their mentees on the journey they are about to take.

At Tyzack, our experience has taught us that having access to external, confidential mentoring is key to both personal and business success. Tyzack has experience in mentoring in a wide variety of different situations and has proven success in developing individuals to achieve their potential.

As information, communications and entertainment organisations converge, Tyzack works with its global clients to provide a new generation of leaders who understand the dynamics of the rapidly changing marketplace.

Whether early-stage investments, growing companies or established players, Tyzack provides innovative and holistic solutions to meet each client’s needs on a global basis. We have a strong track record in technology, traditional and new media, entertainment, satellite-based services and telecommunications, as well as providing technology professionals to a wide variety of other business sectors.

The consumer goods sector – covering food and beverages, luxury, packaged goods and consumer durables – is going through a period marked not only by consolidation at a global level but also by the advent of new, nimble entrants into niche markets.

Tyzack’s extensive experience of the sector as a whole and its understanding of the general commercial drivers of businesses, the impact of technological innovation and the increasing use of e-commerce solutions enables us to provide outstanding advice to our clients. We have experience recruiting across all functions within this diverse sector and our global capability allows us to draw on expertise across international boundaries.

The investmnent trust sector is unbdergoing significant structural change over the poast few years. With the rise and subsequent wane of the alternative sector, there has been an iuncreasing need for a new type of Non-Executive Director to help companies navigate these tricky waters.

Tyzack has undertaken numerous assignments in the investment comapny and aset management sector, including for investment trusts, REIT's and VCT's.

The life sciences marketplace is dynamic, swiftly evolving and faces extensive challenges, be they regulatory, commercial, governmental or scientific. The success of our clients depends upon the identification and attraction of global executives who have the skills and experience to meet these challenges.

Tyzack understands the challenges faced by the healthcare and life sciences sectors and is able to apply lessons learned in one marketplace to others. We have particular expertise in Boards and general management, commercial and Research and development roles across a wide spectrum of clients.

Human Resources is central to any successful organisation. The changing nature of the workplace means that an HR leader must anticipate, rather than merely understand, the external and internal organisational factors that make HR one of the key strategic functions.

At Tyzack, we understand the unique complexities facing senior HR professionals in today’s environment. Our expertise, gained from working in senior HR roles across a broad range of sectors, ensures that we clearly understand the challenges that the strategic HR leader faces. We work very closely with our clients to understand the specific issues they face in today’s ever changing working environment and provide support to find the most appropriate candidates to meet those challenges.

Tyzack’s consultants in this vibrant and ever-changing sector work with a variety of national and international clients to provide the highest quality executives who can deliver long-term growth.

As the sector converges and clients seek to enhance their brand offering, global executives are needed from a variety of different backgrounds. Tyzack is well positioned to meet this challenge.

Tyzack has a wealth of experience in providing executives for the private equity and venture capital industry, as well as senior-level executives (whether executive, non-executive or board level interim) for their investments. We recruit extensively at senior executive level for portfolio businesses, providing pre-deal due diligence on management teams, independent referencing as well as management audit and appraisal.l.

The global professional services marketplace has seen significant change over the last 20 years with increasing levels of consolidation and active regulatory regimes in a number of different countries.

Tyzack is uniquely positioned to help clients keep abreast of these changes and to ensure that their management teams are robust and poised to meet and take advantage of these opportunities. We understand that the traditional partnership ethos, which still forms the backbone of most professional services firms, requires special skills in order to be able to help clients and candidates alike navigate through the recruitment process.

To steal a well-known strapline, 'Global but Local' says it all about Real Estate as an asset class. History has shown us that Real Estate is often the first sector to be affected by economic uncertainty and, likewise, the first to recover.

We have worked with clients ranging from the global advisory community helping them change to reflect the challenge of lower revenue and margins through to the global asset management community on fundraising. We have advised European Banks as they have restructured their Real Estate loan portfolio and have consulted on growth for privately held funds. For more than ten years we have worked on all stages of the cycle in Europe, Asia and North America.

The role of Finance is ever-evolving and the CFO has become ever more important as the foil to a Chief Executive. A CFO’s role is to be the strategic partner to the CEO, both internally and externally, with a wide remit including managing investors, being proactive in handling Acquisitions and Disposals and ensuring that shareholders maximise their returns in the most prudent fashion.

We understand the ever-changing environment that is finance and with increased regulation, particularly in Financial Services, there is ever more need to find people who can demonstrate the ability to think for the future and anticipate the changing economic and regulatory outlook.

Critical to a CFO’s success is the team around and underneath and this includes Divisional Finance Directors and the Heads of Tax, Treasury, Audit and Risk. Ensuring that the CFO is supported effectively is critical to an organisation’s success and with this in mind we work closely with clients to ensure that the infrastructure is in place and succession planning is managed effectively.

Corporate reputation, brand and profile are now more important than ever and external advisors, corporate communications and marketing teams are acutely aware of this. With 24 hour “citizen journalism”, the diverse nature of how society interacts with brands across numerous platforms and with social media now being ingrained in everyday life, global businesses need to communicate with a wider range of audiences in a more effective manner than ever before. Tyzack’s marketing and communications offering has the experience, network and knowledge to advise on senior-level hires and direct reports. Recent assignments have included roles in areas such as Financial Services, Real Estate, Leisure, Information Technology, Financial PR & Investor Relations, Public Affairs and Marketing Communications.

A sound technological infrastructure is fundamental to an organisation’s competitive economic advantage. Business today is operationally complex with requirements to manage efficiencies and connectivity across internal and external stakeholders with speed and accuracy. Tyzack provides a knowledgeable experienced market interface, focusing on key senior posts and direct reports. Recent assignments have included CIO/CTO appointments in a wide variety of different sectors.