What
we do
The role of organisations in society is changing. We find the people who will lead this.
And then go beyond Search to support powerful connections between their organisation’s purpose and their people We offer a broad range of talent and people solutions across a diverse blend of clients, including public listed companies, government and wider public sector, private equity, challenger brands, start up and mutuals.
Global reach and radical impact
Confidence from the quality hallmarks of a global firm
Our systems, track record and brand recognition enable us to operate successfully across the globe. Our research capability is wide-ranging and always-on. Underpinned by leading-edge technology that provides a digital connection between us and our clients. Driving the communication and collaboration critical to a successful search outcome.
Our composure of approach, delivery completion rates, assignment pace and the innovation and diversity of our shortlists provide clients with the assurance of a quality outcome.
Innovation from the entrepreneurial spirit of a boutique
Firms like ourselves are shaking up the global search and talent advisory industry as clients increasingly seek to access big brand expertise without the big brand overhead or bureaucracy. We believe our agile, streamlined, integrated team approach is more efficient as:
Our Partners are able to share knowledge and ideas more effectively and are motivated to collaborate to deliver a quality outcome
We are superbly agile and can adapt quickly to respond to changes in context or environment
We are flexible and focused on offering each client a tailored search solution bespoke to their needs
Our clients have access to more than one Partner to bring relevant additional insights and perspectives
Our researchers think laterally, cross disciplines and create provably more inclusive and innovative shortlists
We coordinate and launch far more quickly on international and domestic searches as we have no intra office sign-off, politics or bureaucracy
Services
We assess, appoint and advise Chairs, Non-Executive Directors, Chief Executives and functional leadership across a diverse range of clients including public listed companies, government and the wider public sector, private equity, challenger brands, start-ups and mutuals.
At the heart of our search is the transference of knowledge and insight developed from the deep sector and functional expertise of our Partners. This enables us to provide a truly consultative approach to the development and execution of our client’s mandates
We believe that talent transcends traditional sectoral boundaries. Our Partners and Researchers work collaboratively to ensure our clients have access to the broadest and most diverse networks.
Our high levels of repeat mandates (over 78%) are proof of our belief that long-standing relationships, over transactional work, benefits all.
We work with clients to build and strengthen the capability and potential of their boards through the provision of independent insight and advice on all areas of their performance.
Our Partners have been delivering an integrated suite of advisory services including executive search, board reviews, succession planning, assessment and coaching for more than 20 years.
Our role is to support the boards of our clients in delivering against their ambitions so ensuring they are sustainable for the future as well as fully effective today.
Miles Advisory provides interim solutions that create impact, solve complex problems, and generate value for clients.
We take a consultative approach to our interim solutions to understand what success looks like and to ensure that the client chosen interim specialist and Miles Advisory are fully aligned around goals and objectives.
We move at speed to deliver high quality results and work both in the UK and internationally.
Our interim solutions span functional leaders, general management, technology professionals as well as independent consultants.
We work with clients to provide specialist talent mapping, pipelining and insights which support better strategic decision making.
These projects are global in nature and allow us to help clients plan more effectively for external succession, establish competitor benchmarks and execute due diligence, often related to M&A transactions.
Miles Advisory supports clients via our proprietary assessment model, MAssess.
We deploy our assessment capabilities during the recruitment process to support better decision making, address individual development requirements for current leaders and provide team assessments to assess broader leadership capability across C-Suite.