Find the Leader Your Organisation Deserves.
Identifying the right executive is the highest-leverage decision an organisation makes. We bring 20+ years of leadership experience and the precision to match to every retained search we undertake.
20+
Years of executive leadership experience across multiple industries
C-Suite
Operators who have held the roles we help you fill
Multiple
Successful exits — we understand what growth demands
100%
Retained model — aligned to your outcome, not speed
We've held the seat. We know what it demands.
Our team doesn’t just recruit leaders we have been leaders. That lived experience shapes every search mandate we take on.
Executive Leadership Experience
With 20+ years of executive leadership across technology, AV, telecom, SaaS, and building technologies, we understand what truly separates transformational leaders from capable managers and we evaluate accordingly.
Multiple Exits & Growth Advisory
We've built and scaled organisations through growth, transition, and exit. This experience gives us rare insight into which leadership profiles actually perform under pressure and which only look good on paper.
Strategic Risk Advisory
In a complex economic environment, the wrong executive hire doesn't just cost money it costs momentum. We help you define the brief precisely, challenge assumptions early, and mitigate leadership risk before it materialises.
A structured mandate. A deliberate outcome.
Retained search demands a different methodology. Ours is built around rigour, confidentiality, and a relentless focus on long-term fit.
Understanding your business and the story behind its success is a critical piece to both our success!
- Every organization and the people in it are different and we want to understand your company and how the solution is benefiting your customers.
- This is not a “Cookie-Cutter” 5 minute conversation, we genuinely want to hear the company’s story on how it got started.
- This allows us to go out and attract the talent that is needed.
We leverage our network and tell your story to attract the right people to join your team
- Once we have the key pieces to your story, this is where we do the heavy lifting to connect you to qualified candidates.
- In our recruiting outreach, we treat the process as if we are an extension of your team focusing on what is important to you in a hire
- Through our years of experience, one thing we understand is not wasting your time with resumes you just want to throw in the trash!
- Only vetted rockstars make it to you! We know your time is valuable and are not here to waste it.
We are your advisors guiding you through the process
- We bridge the communication gap, ensuring questions are answered with no detail left behind via robust reporting fueled with data, market analysis, and weekly sessions.
- As competition for top talent is continuing to be in high demand, the last thing you want is for your selected candidate who just accepted a position with your firm to take a counter off, or sign with someone else.
We are by your side to walk your new hire through the front door
- We are in constant contact with all new hires making sure they are excited and ready to make an impact with your organization day 1.
- Through the onboarding process we make the new hires have everything before their first day and any and all questions have been answered.
- The potential for landmines to pop up during this stage is significant and we do the heavy lifting to help you avoid disaster.
Partnership Beyond Placement
Chris Edward Consulting connects high-performing professionals with forward-thinking companies. We go beyond recruitment, building long-term partnerships that empower both sides to grow, adapt, and succeed.
A few of our recent clients
Our clients love us
Andrew Gross
VP of Salex - Xyte
Ehrika Gladden
P&L Leader
“For an employer whos looking to fit an existing role you can’t go wrong by hiring Chris”
Eric Spadafora
Senior Vice President of Sales, GXO Logistics
“For an employer whos looking to fit an existing role you can’t go wrong by hiring Chris”
Curtis Heath
President of Business Solutions - Guitar Center
“There is no other firm…that has taken their own time to invest in learning needs and marketing industry”
Ana Islan
AV Solutions Consultant
Brian Miller
National Project Manager - AVDG
Outcomes that justify every investment.
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A few of our recent clients
Partners in leadership strategy.
A retained search is not a transaction, it’s a strategic engagement. We bring advisory depth that most search firms simply cannot offer.
What we bring to every mandate
Two decades of executive experience means we’ve navigated the challenges your candidates will face and we evaluate their readiness with that context firmly in mind.
- Board-level communication and positioning guidance
- Compensation benchmarking against live market data
- Succession risk assessment and scenario planning
- Onboarding advisory for the first 90 days
- Post-placement check-ins at 30, 90, and 180 days
What the retained model guarantees
The retained model exists because the most important hires deserve undivided attention. Our incentives are fully aligned to your outcome not to the speed of placement.
- Dedicated search team assigned exclusively to your mandate
- Full confidentiality throughout internally and externally
- Proactive progress reporting at every stage of the search
- Replacement guarantee in the event of early departure
- No competing mandates that dilute our focus on your search
Professionals
Whether you’re changing careers, moving, or have questions. We’re here to understand your goals.
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