Moves Across Sectors

Here you may find encouragement if you think you would like to do something different from what you have been doing before.  You may enjoy the sort of moves - in some cases giant leaps - which our clients have made.  They are all real cases.

Private Sector to Public/Voluntary or vice versa

  • The mid-cap corporate CFO now in one of the biggest FD roles in government
  • The private equity CFO now FD of a major public transport organisation
  • The pharmaceutical CEO now running a well-known national charity
  • The senior civil servant (Grade 2) now a top-flight executive coach

New Business Start Ups

  • The lawyer who started a crisis management consultancy
  • The private equity specialist who set up his own fund
  • The Big Pharma executive who started not one but two multi-hundred-million dollar businesses with private equity backing
  • The food and financial services executive who built a fully-integrated hydrocarbons business from scratch for a major international utility

Changes of Direction in the Private Sector

  • The car components executive now partner of a private bank in Geneva
  • The auctioneer now developing business for a hedge fund
  • The global strategist in utilities running an AIM-listed technology business
  • The travel industry executive now Sales Director for a financial services software firm

Starting a Plural Career

  • The banker earning more now from non-executive roles than previously as a banker
  • The FTSE 100 Executive Director determined never to be a NED on a FTSE 100 Board
  • The fixed income trader with a property business and a formal religious role
  • The mid-career executive who followed passions for Africa, women's interests, micro-business and the disadvantaged by finding roles for each in a portfolio

Meanwhile, at the outset of their careers ...

The young people behind each of these examples will tell you that, even if there isn't an immediately tangible outcome, just getting your thinking straight and your head in the right place can significantly improve your morale, your search and your interview performance.

  • The graduate who missed the University milk round through illness, and spotted a gap in the market, offering peer-age coaching to them as they hit the first obstacles
  • The University rugby captain who turned professional for two years, then needed a "real" job
  • The ex-Army officer who assumed he'd find a job easily, and resigned his commission into the teeth of the recession
  • The internet sales company executive who wanted to be an artist and make money