The leadership decisions that do not end with a placement.
Advisory is what clients ask of us once a search has closed, and increasingly where the conversation begins: with boards thinking three years ahead, founders preparing succession, and chief executives reading the gap between the team they have and the team they need.
Four advisory engagements.
Leadership Assessment
ASCEND and APEX, our own assessments, with established behavioural profiling for incoming and incumbent leaders.
02Succession and Capability
Succession plans and a capability framework that define every level by scale, decisions and outcomes.
03CEO Talent Advisory
A standing, retained advisory relationship for chief executives on their leadership team, bench and market.
04Talent and Workforce Transformation
Rebuilding recruitment capability and workforce performance around the leaders you appoint.
Deliberately senior. Deliberately small.
One clear question
Every advisory engagement is designed to give a client one clear answer to one important question.
A scoping conversation first
Every engagement begins with a conversation with the Founder to confirm that the question can be answered, the timing is right and we are the right firm for it. Sometimes it is not, and we say so.
Senior and short
Engagements are founder led and deliberately short, with a written outcome agreed at the start.
Leadership advisory from Dubai, across the GCC.
Hunters and Skipper advises chief executives, boards and leadership teams on assessment, succession, CEO talent strategy and workforce transformation. We work across the United Arab Emirates, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, with reach into India, Africa, Europe and South East Asia.
We work with listed companies, family owned groups, government related entities and investor backed businesses. Where national talent programmes such as Emiratisation and Saudisation apply, national leaders are part of every succession and capability plan.
Facing a leadership decision?
Start with a scoping conversation with the Founder. It is confidential and carries no obligation.