Practitioner Experience, Applied to Complex Climate, Environment, and Critical Minerals Challenges.
We work with businesses and NGOs navigating technically complex, high-stakes leadership, scientific, and policy-focused hires.
Senior technical and leadership searches for roles where subject-matter expertise matters.
Every search is led by a principal and built around practitioner judgment, rigorous market mapping, and targeted direct outreach to candidates who may never enter an open hiring process.
Our work begins before sourcing. We help clients sharpen the role, determine which capabilities matter most, and understand where the right experience is likely to exist before taking the search to market.
Design the team, then build it.
For organizations launching a new capability, entering a new market, or standing up a business unit, the challenge often extends beyond any individual hire.
We help define the structure, reporting lines, role scopes, and hiring sequence before recruiting against them, then run interconnected searches under a shared mandate. From an anchor executive to the leadership and specialist roles around them, the result is a team designed to work together from the outset.
Expertise for the questions that don't require a search.
Our advisory work supports organizations at the intersection of climate change, strategy, and organizational leadership.
We advise on leadership and workforce questions including organizational design, talent strategy, executive benchmarking, and succession planning. We also support discrete technical and strategic needs through custom research, risk and policy analysis, RFP and scope development, and stakeholder facilitation.
Our work in the field continues beyond client engagements. Through expert commentary, academic and applied research, collaborations, and The Understory, we contribute to the conversations shaping climate, environment, critical minerals, and the people working across them.
This work reflects the same practitioner perspective we bring to every search and advisory engagement.
Perspectives grounded in practice.