Search
In founding Larkhall Search, Judith leverages the experience of nearly four decades: delivering searches at Board, Executive Committee, and Senior Leadership Team level. She has an industry-leading completion record.
The core elements of the Larkhall proposition are:
Rigour and subtlety in taking a brief
Imagination and reach in identifying top talent to fit that brief
Timeliness and transparency in all communications
Judith is a superb ambassador for clients and a strong advocate for candidates, based on a detailed understanding of both communities. Underpinning the Larkhall process is accuracy of judgement and a desire to collaborate with clients to ensure excellent, enduring, and effective appointments.
Career Counsel
A senior executive needing to recruit turns to search firms for support. To whom can the same executive turn when they are the candidate, not the client? Larkhall Career Counsel supports leaders at moments of inflection in their career.
Through detailed interview, discussion, and considered referencing, Larkhall probes to ensure the executive has absolute clarity about what they want to do, why they want to do it, and how they will go about it.
Thereafter, Larkhall Career Counsel:
Supports the definition of a go-to-market strategy
Crafts the necessary marketing collateral
Activates existing networks and builds and unlocks new ones.
A watershed moment can be uncomfortable and isolating; the Larkhall proposition approaches it as a period of personal growth and discovery. Larkhall will be a critical friend and key sounding board throughout, offering an invaluable discursive approach to the challenge of career change.
Due Diligence
Larkhall Due Diligence enables clients to separate referencing from search execution, thus circumventing a potential conflict of interest.
Combining both formal and informal referencing, Larkhall Due Diligence works with those nominated by the final candidate in a process, as well as identifying others who will have worked above, alongside, or for the candidate.
Reference taking is not always straightforward. We hear the unspoken and pursue nuanced lines of enquiry to ensure views, both positive and negative, are validated or dismissed.
Applicable to individual search exercises or to M&A activity, Larkhall Due Diligence ensures that individual expertise, personality, and behaviours have been examined with those who know the target best—former colleagues. This gives an additional level of assurance to the recruitment or M&A process and is a useful onboarding tool, indicating preferred working styles and practices.
