Talent mapping, market intelligence, and benchmarks

Search, not a list

Our talent intelligence is built from long-standing relationships across the technology, financial, and consumer sectors. Maps are built to inform real decisions, not to fill a slide for a board meeting.

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Intelligence that survives the brief

Every engagement produces a documented map: target organisations, named leaders, compensation benchmarks, and movement signals. The intelligence travels with the client through planning and search without ambiguity.

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the service

About

Talent mapping, market intelligence, and benchmarks

Key metric

120+ maps

Searches completed

120+ markets mapped

Typical duration

2 to 6 weeks

Talent mapping and market intelligence for confidential planning, with full documentation for the leadership and talent team.

Our mapping service is built for boards, investors, and talent teams who want a considered, documented view of a market without committing to a full retained search. We work from our network of senior leaders across the technology, financial, and consumer sectors.

Market mapping for confidential and pre-search planning
Competitor organisation mapping and named-leader identification
Compensation benchmarking and movement-signal analysis
Diversity mapping to inform balanced, representative pipelines

Maps are built to inform decisions about hiring, structure, and timing. Intelligence is documented at a level that survives the move from planning to live search.

Considered executive search and leadership begins here

Leaders found through research, judgement, and rigour.

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Diane Castellano

Managing partner

The rigour throughout the search was exceptional. The shortlist felt considered, benchmarked, and well matched, and they understood the mandate completely.

Eleanor Ashworth

Board chair

From brief to onboarding, the process felt thoughtful and seamless. Search and assessment ran as one process, and the shortlist exceeded our expectations.

Lucas Walker

Founder & CEO

Working with Kessler felt like a true partnership from day one. The depth of assessment, referencing, and market insight changed how we approached the hire.

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Services

Senior leadership across technology, financial services, and life sciences.

94% offer accept

Retained executive search for senior leadership

Secure the senior leader your next stage depends on, assessed, referenced, and guided from the first brief through to a signed offer and onboarding.

180+ searches completed

94% offer accept

Retained Executive Search

01.

62+ assessments

Leadership assessment for critical hiring decisions

Know exactly who you are hiring before you commit, with structured evidence, psychometrics, and market benchmarking chosen over first impressions.

62+ leaders assessed

62+ assessments

Leadership Assessment

02.

38+ pipelines

Succession planning for leadership continuity

Prepare the bench and the plan so no critical leadership role is ever left exposed, with internal readiness and external market mapping combined.

38+ pipelines designed

38+ pipelines

Succession Planning

03.

Avg. 11 weeks

Board and non-executive director search

Strengthen the board with the independent expertise and challenge it is missing, through chair, non-executive, and committee appointments run with rigour.

26+ board appointments

Avg. 11 weeks

Board & NED Search