From retained executive search to talent mapping, every engagement is built on the same standard of research and partner involvement.
Retained Executive Search
Secure the senior leader your next stage depends on, assessed, referenced, and guided from the first brief through to a signed offer and onboarding.
Leadership Assessment
Know exactly who you are hiring before you commit, with structured evidence, psychometrics, and market benchmarking chosen over first impressions.
Succession Planning
Prepare the bench and the plan so no critical leadership role is ever left exposed, with internal readiness and external market mapping combined.
Board & NED Search
Strengthen the board with the independent expertise and challenge it is missing, through chair, non-executive, and committee appointments run with rigour.
Interim Leadership
Put proven leadership in place within days when a departure, transformation, or leadership gap cannot wait for a full retained search to conclude.
Talent Mapping
See the whole market before you move, with named leaders, live compensation benchmarks, and documented intelligence built for confidential planning.
Achievements
We help boards and founders appoint the leaders who define their next stage.
Measured across executive and board placements still in post two years after appointment, tracked through structured post-placement reviews with every client.
Cumulative search industry awards received since 2003 across the Recruiter, TIARA, Global Recruiter, and Hunt Scanlon executive search awards programmes.
Founded in 2003, Kessler has built a specialist executive search firm over 23 years of focused work in technology, financial services, and consumer leadership.
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