The Journey of a Search CEO

In this episode, Candice Bourne is joined by Billy Stephenson, Founder of Stephenson Executive Search, who reflects on 14 years of building a boutique firm on a foundation of trust and reputation and why being nimble, team-focused, and relationship-driven matters more than chasing revenuetargets.

In this episode, Candice Bourne talks to Liz Jones who has formed a niche media and marketing search firm Conker after a corporate career in sales. Her story shows how following your passions alongside life coaching can lead to a transformative career.

In this episode, Candice Bourne talks to Christina Brooks, Founder & CEO at Ruebik who shares her unique story from starting work in fashion at 15 to working at the BBC before launching her successful career in search where she is really making a difference in inclusion.

This is a compelling listen. In this episode, Candice Bourne speaks with Mark Moreau, President and CEO of Elevate Talent, who reflects on his leadership journey from his early career in the leisure industry to his current role. He shares valuable insights into his core values, leadership approach and offers a fascinating perspective on the dynamic industry sectors that Elevate serves.

In this great conversation with the two co-founders of MontaRosa, Candice Bourne speaks with Jodi Kaelle and Kelvin Thompson and they discuss how their very different backgrounds led to careers in search and how they have built an excellent brand for the last 18 years with MontaRosa.

In this episode, Candice speaks with Kumaran Surenthirathas, Founder and Managing Director at Rosehill Search. Kumaran shares how after a tough start to his career, he joined a high growth contingent business where he shone in Front Office Search. He discusses how that led him into starting Rosehill Search from scratch 10 years ago and how it is now a global leading front office search business.

In this episode, Candice Bourne talks with search industry legend Diane Segalen, the President at Segalen + Associes about how her banking background taught her essential client facing skills that have served her well in search. Her business , Segalen + Associes is now celebrating its 15th year.

In this episode, the Founder of Michael Page France and Founder & CEO of Norman Alex, Ivor Alex speaks to Candice about how perseverance, hard work and global expansion has ensured the longevity of his search firm.

In this episode, Candice Bourne speaks with Darin White Eydenberg, CEO & Founder of Highridge Search about her super interesting story of how she grew her own business after a career in Wall Street.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has an enlightening conversation with Chad Hesters. We learn how from a US military background, Chad worked his way up the ranks in search to his current role leading the oldest search firm globally, Boyden.

In this episode, Candice Bourne speaks with Andy Cartland the Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Acre as he shares the story of how he co founded Acre and has grown it to become a leading global business, lessons he has learnt and how reading the Stoic texts has helped develop his mindset.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a fascinating conversation with Amy Hambleton a Founding Director at Redlaw Recruitment about her move from starting out in law to co founding a legal recruitment business that has now gone from strength to strength.

In this episode Candice Bourne has an interesting conversation with Terri Loska, the CEO at Dartmouth Partners about her inspiring story of cofounding Dartmouth Partners, becoming CEO of the business as well as attaining private equity investment, all while starting a family. Her impressive focus and determination to succeed, alongside her ability to juggle makes this episode a must listen.

In this episode, Candice Bourne talks with Dale Williams the Founder and CEO at Recolution Group as he discusses his success in building a multi million pound recruitment group that he started in his early 20s. His confidence and focus are very inspiring to would be entrepreneurs.

In this episode, Candice Bourne meets the four co founders of Leathwaite to discuss how since having met in their 20s at Robert Walters, they went on to create and run Leathwaite and are still a team almost 30 years later.

In this episode, Candice Bourne talks with Augusta Mirchandani, Founder and CEO at AAA Global as she shares how she always dreamt of being a CEO and how she has started an international search firm alongside becoming a mother. Her ambition, drive and focus is super inspiring.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a very interesting conversation with John- Claude Hesketh the CEO at Marlin Hawk who’s positive and open outlook really shines through. He talks about how his early days in retail have impacted his value system and the impressive international growth of Marlin Hawk.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a very illuminating conversation with Guy Barnes, Managing Partner at Hierax Advisory. We discover about Guy’s exciting new venture, his thoughts on what makes someone successful in search and why studying history can be very useful to a career in search.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a fascinating conversation with James Pope the Founder of Beaumont Bailey about how he fell into recruitment after his unconventional upbringing, then pivoted into search and has now created a top 500 search firm in Europe.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a very interesting conversation with Chris Campbell, Managing Partner of Curzon, who shares how he started his career in teaching with a stint in politics, before establishing his own successful search business that has become a global entity.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has an insightful conversation with Will Hannaford, Managing Partner & CEO of Maven Partnership about the importance of having mentors in his career, the dramatic growth of Maven Partnership and how a life changing event has made him both grateful and hugely ambitious.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has an engaging conversation with Ben Knight, Founder & CEO of KNiON on how being an entrepreneur is in his DNA and his impressive rise to establish his own search firm in the tech start up space.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has an interesting conversation with Grant Vowls, Director and Co-Founder of Chameleon International Search, in which he talks about his inspiring story of setting up a search firm in South Africa after just 4 years in the industry. Before co-founding Chameleon International a search firm that has gone from strength to strength and is now in its 15th year.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has a captivating conversation with Nik Pratap, Managing Partner at Pratap Partnership where he discusses his thoughts on branding, staff development and retention and launching a new search brand alongside his successful contingent business.

In this episode, Candice Bourne has an engaging conversation with Kadeem Houson, CEO at Kea Consultants, in which he shares his incredibly inspiring journey from intern to CEO of Kea Consultants over the last 13 years.