Search | Governance | Leadership
Search
Appointments to the most senior or specialist roles are best made using Executive Search, a high-touch approach and a robust research methodology designed to find, attract and assess the best potential candidates for your organisation.
Executive Search is a blend of art and science that Kerridge & Partners has mastered, connecting our clients with outstanding leaders who fit. We are market-leading, internationally benchmarked, and have deep networks in New Zealand and abroad. Our search process is both rigorous and flexible, and is tailored to suit the specific needs of your organisation.
We are the only leadership consultancy in New Zealand to provide a genuinely integrated service that encompasses all aspects involved in executive level appointments.
To ensure that Kerridge & Partners deliver the best search service possible for your organisation, we undertake to:
Really understand you – so that we can represent you authentically to the market.
Find the best possible leaders for you – including those from diverse backgrounds.
Delight you with our service – and provide valuable insights on the journey.
Executive Search has been at the core of our business for 19 years. Our search competency has been tested at Chief Executive level with over 125 CEO searches completed across a wide range of sectors.
To find out more about how our acclaimed Executive Search practice can contribute to the success of your organisation, email us or call us on +64 9 969 9900.
Governance
We support Boards of Directors with their appointment, evaluation and development processes, and have a reputation for delivering robust and high quality advice, grounded in the practical and informed by some of the industry’s best thinkers.
Our Approach to Board Appointments
The implications of appointing a new Director to your Board are far reaching. Long gone are the days when it was simply "a call to a friend who might be interested".
From publicly listed organisations to not-for-profit Boards, Kerridge & Partners has worked with many outstanding clients to enhance their governance teams. This has been achieved not only through introducing new talent to the boardroom, but also through challenging the Board’s thinking to identify the most suitable Director to better govern the Board.
We also provide a condensed service to clients who already have candidates in mind for an appointment but require an objective view of the candidates’ suitability. Where appropriate, we then manage the subsequent validation and appointment.
Our Approach to Board Evaluations
Our approach to Board Evaluation centres on quality conversations with Directors and stakeholders of the Board. Our approach is both strategic and deeply practical - everything we do is informed by the overall future direction of your organisation.
Our aim is to arrive at a small number of achievable programmes of work that a Board can digest. We recognise that a Board of Directors has very limited time to indulge in its own improvement and that our focus needs to be firmly targeted on the key items that can make the most difference.
To find out more about how our acclaimed governance practice can contribute to the success of your organisation, email us or call us on +64 9 969 9900.
Leadership
Leadership Team Alignment
Three factors influence the collective intelligence of a team: social sensitivity, equality and diversity. Kerridge & Partners offers a systematic approach to enable teams to achieve their full potential by helping them increase their social sensitivity and have more balanced, better quality conversations.
Because every team is different, our approach is never the same. We tailor workshops and team alignment activities to get the best out of your team.
Succession Planning
As an extension of our leadership assessment and benchmarking offering, we work with organisations to map out a succession plan for their leadership team. We assess internal talent and identify capability gaps that are best met by talent external to the organisation.
As part of the succession planning process, we partner with our clients to:
Develop in-depth role profiles for the CEO, leadership team and critical positions to enable potential candidates to be objectively measured against the right competencies.
Assess both internal and external candidates against the competency framework.
Create a development plan for the internal talent pipeline.
Leadership Assessment and Benchmarking
Kerridge & Partners offer internationally recognised psychometric testing methods that include cultural alignment to add insight into an individual’s leadership profile and fit with an organisation and role. We offer individual assessments to help us identify for you – in advance – a particular candidate’s potential derailing risks and insights into their ‘match-fitness’ for the job. This will ensure that your organisation is led by the best team possible.
Executive Coaching
Our highly qualified and experienced coaches can help you reach your professional goals as an Executive. Based in a variety of locations across New Zealand, we are able to deliver high-quality face-to-face, bespoke coaching services.
Executive Transition
A career is typically a lifelong journey, with multiple beginnings and ends. To equip executives with the right personal development and marketing tools to transition between one career phase to another, Kerridge & Partners offers an Executive Transition service designed to enable a deeper level of self-reflection and spur action.
Because each individual is different, we take a 'mixed bag' approach to this service. Our clients can choose to mix and match from any of the following services:
One-on-one coaching with an experienced in-house coach.
Career mapping.
Interview techniques.
CV review and construction.
To find out more about how our acclaimed leadership solutions can contribute to the success of your organisation, email us or call us on +64 9 969 9900.
Get In Touch
To learn more about Kerridge & Partners and how we are transforming the leadership landscape, please contact us.
