Imagine Your Future
CUSTOM BY DESIGN
It’s easy to make that happen with 1st Executive right now.

Find Real Leaders |
In Executive Search and Recruitment, Global networks, technology and experience mean that we can quickly identify your kind of leader in the kind of organisation you think they will be leading right now. Read More |

Develop My Leaders |
Blended Leadership Development solutions that include online and face to solutions, focus on your business, grow your leaders and your business at the same time. Read More |

Help My Team Perform |
The performance management processes, resources and experience for retaining and developing high performance teams – anywhere. Read More |

Create A Team Of Champions |
Recruiting in numbers that is aligned, focused, clear and transparent. Custom built to your business’s needs. It is one of the things we do best. Read More |
When Michelangelo saw the ‘spirit of David’ in a block of weathered marble in the yard of the cathedral workshop in Florence, he saw what others couldn’t. His commission embodied, insight, custom design and a result that had proven beyond others. For us, meeting the brief is not enough we have to do see inside the people that we present to find unique value.
Our proven diagnostic and investigative process that takes us from your early views of what you want from your team to an evidence-based perspective on what you need. This is a fast, cost – effective way to develop your plan.
We'll share our research with you and discuss what it means for your business and your people. This ranges from how employees see their working future, to where remuneration is headed even the key drivers of employee engagement.
The hidden value that exists within the performance of your team is easily missed. Assessments are often used in the selection of new people, but are far too rarely used to understand the potential of the people you already have.
People and brand are your best source of competitive advantage. We help organisations unlock the potential for competitive advantage that exists within their current and future team. It’s not complicated but it will make you think.
Hobart, Tasmania|Permanent
This paddock to plate producer is an Australian success story. Riding the fresh and healthy eating trend, the company has farms, facilities and offices…
Melbourne|Permanent
This is an important and strategic human resources leadership role in which the key requirements are ensuring the people focus is aligned with delivery of the business strategy…
|Permanent
This Business Development Manager role is focused entirely on new business. There will be some warm leads across other business units, ongoing lead generation and marketing support but this is a true ‘hunter’ role. Your clients will be the marketing departments of…
Tokyo|Permanent
This is an exciting opportunity for a senior director of internal audit with CPA qualifications. It is with a world leading organisation with substantial global growth opportunities…
The best part of our custom by design approach for careers is that while working for our clients, we will engage you, the candidate in a discussion about your career. The right career choice for you produces the best value for our clients. We can also help you design your ideal career too – fill in the form to learn how.

The best part of our custom by design approach for careers is that while working for our clients, we will engage you, the candidate in a discussion about your career. The right career choice for you produces the best value for our clients. We can also help you design your ideal career too – fill in the form to learn how..


The Australian Financial Review on Feb 5 2020 carried a piece by Edmund Tadros in which the CEO of Rio Tinto, Jean Sebastien Jacques explains how he uses an internal management consulting team to do work previously done by external advisors. In responding to “The Australian Financial Review’s Annual…

The Executive Search discipline is increasingly international. If you need proof, we just need to look at the ethnic make up of Australia’s top CEOs. Almost 50% of the top 50 are foreign-born. Of those, 13 are from either the…

Over the last 12 months we have provided some additional commentary around eight insights that business leaders told us were 2019 priorities. These are recorded in the Mindshop 2019 Business Leader Report. Here’s an overview of what we saw and what…