A private equity investment group engaged us to support the C-suite of a mid-sized life sciences portfolio company. With a new, relatively young CEO and a leadership team rich in technical expertise but lacking scaling experience, the company needed senior hires and stronger executive alignment to drive growth.
With ambitious growth plans in place, the company needed to strengthen its culture to support rapid scaling. Burnout hotspots and resistance to change signaled the need for a leadership shift. We led a leadership capability audit, identifying strengths, gaps, and their impact on organizational culture. At an executive offsite, we aligned leadership on key cultural tenets and developed clear operating principles - defining the behaviors and decisions needed to embed a high-performance culture for scalable growth.
With leadership operating principles in place, the focus shifted to recruiting senior talent to strengthen the executive team. Ensuring top performance remained a priority, alongside key capabilities in team building, customer relations, and technical excellence. Using our specialist methodology, we mapped ideal candidate profiles and leveraged stakeholder analysis to assess immediate and long-term business impact. We delivered clear-cut advice and candidate rankings.
The life sciences company onboarded four senior leaders, who played a key role in recruiting for critical roles to expand capabilities. All four hires remain, with the longest-serving at 18 months and counting. The leadership operating principles supported a successful rebrand, positioning the company to drive transformational projects essential to its growth ambitions.
We worked with a group of 10 executives on this project.
We advised on 4 external hires for the project.
All external hires are still with the company, with the longest-serving at 18 months and counting.
As ever, your insight is so valuable. You put data and science to the things that we know our leaders need to be. It has helped us make so many critical decisions.
CEO
I know you understand how we work and what matters to us. Thank you for helping us prepare for our next steps.
Senior Leadership Team Member
