Leadership for the energy transition and hard to abate sectors.

We secure purpose-driven COOs and their direct reports who can move the needle fast. Our human-led processes, AI-enhanced precision, and qualified global network have been built over two decades.

Our story: recruitment outcomes should be improving in the AI era, poor implementation is taking them backwards.

COO 6.0 is my solution

COO, because we only recruit COO’s, and their direct reports. 6.0, because the move towards Industry 5.0 is already here, and AI is accelerating the shift to what comes next.

For over 20 years, I’ve delivered executive search from every angle, delivering critical hires as a recruiter based onsite everywhere from Houston to Kazakhstan, through to building a $900M revenue team across 80 offices globally.

That range of experience gives me a perspective few in recruitment can claim.

That’s why COO 6.0 is built differently. Our team leverages referrals and advice from seasoned CEO’s and COO’s, people who have done the job, not just talked about it, with elite freelancers who deliver impact on the ground.

Our AI is analysing thousands of reports daily to find the companies that have truly scaled, recovered or transformed, and the leaders responsible, and it’s building role specific scorecards and assessments tailored to your specific challenge, not your job specification.

“You need to hire people that have done what you need them to do. Not just read a book on it.”
Cameron Herold
Author of Second in Command

YOUR SOLUTION

Search

Our core retained model, including:

VC/PE

Investor focussed support mirroring our Search offer, plus:

Fractional

Flexible firepower without full-time commitment

Project

Bespoke solution to business-critical challenges:

“In any organization, the #1 challenge is not about the right strategy, products or processes. It’s about finding and putting the right people in the right roles, so they can make the right decisions and deliver outcomes that matter”
Geoff Smart
Co-author of Who: The "A" Method for Hiring

How we work: Our human-led assessments are inspired by the work of several subject matter experts, including Cameron Herold, Randy Street, Geoff and Brad Smart. We are informed by lessons learned from over two decades of global delivery.

Outcome
scorecards

Clear success criteria defined before the search begins.

Deep, chronological interviews

Bespoke solution to business-critical challenges.

Operating context + culture fit

Validated thoroughly through targeted references.

Vivid execution
alignment

Ensuring leaders and teams share the same vision.

Our delivery is led by a founder with over 20 years of credible onsite delivery across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East, a network of Industry Execs who contribute referrals & recommendations, and a team of sector and role specific freelancers with direct connections into the best available talent.

Structured, evidence-first assessment with human judgment at the core. Our outreach remains firmly in the hands of a human being, but the foundation of our research tools includes custom built AI platforms that analyse 1000’s of company reports, industry publications and newsfeeds to identify the individuals behind the biggest success stories.

Your priorities in work and life have and will continue to change, but the focus on creating the best possible future for the people who rely on you remains consistent. Our purpose is to make that future a reality.

“The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are very good at it.
Brad Smart
Co-author of Who: The "A" Method for Hiring

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“In good times and bad times alike, we tend to postpone making important people decisions until it is too late.”
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
Author of It’s Not the How or the What but the Who