Senior Technical and Leadership Searches Across Climate, Environment, and Critical Minerals
Some Searches Require More Than Recruiting Expertise.
The roles we work on are often difficult to define, difficult to evaluate, and filled from talent pools that do not map neatly onto conventional industries.
A permitting leader may need scientific depth, regulatory judgment, and the ability to operate inside a fast-growing company. A climate risk role may draw from government, academia, finance, or consulting. A critical minerals company may need expertise that exists in an adjacent sector rather than among its direct competitors.
Running these searches well requires enough subject matter knowledge to know where to look, which experience translates, and when the brief itself needs to change.
Our Process
Every search follows a rigorous methodology, customized to our clients' needs, that reduces risk and surfaces exceptional candidates at every stage.
1. Define the strategy
We co-develop the job description, refine success criteria, and identify target sectors and exemplary profiles before outreach begins.
2. Map the market
We focus on the organizations, disciplines, and leaders most relevant to your search, and keep that view current throughout.
3. Build the sourcing plan
Our experience gives us the confidence to challenge assumptions and shape better searches.
4. Engage and assess
We conduct direct, confidential outreach and screen for trajectory, motivation, and fit, bringing you a short list with detailed written profiles.
5. Guide the decision
We help run the interview process, manage references, and -- if desired -- deliver the offer and manage negotiations to a signed agreement.
Who We Work With.
We partner with organizations where climate, environmental, or technical expertise is central to the work they do and the decisions they make.
Climate and technology companies
From venture-backed startups making their first senior environmental hire to growing companies building entire technical functions.
Critical minerals and natural resources
Organizations navigating the environmental, permitting, community, policy, and technical demands of building secure mineral supply chains.
NGOs, philanthropies, and research organizations
Mission-driven organizations navigating leadership transitions or searching for specialized expertise in fields where credibility and relationships matter.
Investors and portfolio companies
Climate-focused investors and the companies they back, particularly when a specialized leadership hire has become critical to the next phase of growth.
Companies building climate and resilience capabilities
Financial institutions, insurers, infrastructure companies, and other businesses building teams around physical climate risk, resilience, sustainability, or related emerging functions.
Have a Difficult Role to Define or Fill?
The searches we are best suited for tend to have a few things in common: the talent pool is specialized, the role matters disproportionately to the organization, and understanding the work is essential to identifying the right person.
If that sounds like the search you're facing, we'd welcome a conversation.