AN EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRM

Decisions power performance, yet,
decision making is
often​ overlooked
in executive hiring​

We help organizations understand decision-making
styles to create alignment and improve performance.
"For some time, HR departments have been seeking to remove the bias from the recruitment process for more junior employees in order to promote greater diversity and inclusiveness.
With more senior hires, the job is more complex...
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Executive Search

Traditional Executive Search focuses on two components: Experience and Leadership Competencies.
At Kingsley Gate, we believe there is a critical element missing: understanding how an executive candidate makes decisions

Global Practices

by Industry

Our global industry practices bring you a depth of expertise within each sector and sub-sectors to ensure you hire the best decision maker for your organization.

by Function

Our global functional practices bring you executive leaders with the required readiness and potential that ensure the greatest decision-making impact for your organization across all sectors.
Private Equity & Venture Capital
There is a 1.4x delta in executive satisfaction between those who did and did​ not have an explicit discussion about decision making before accepting their current position
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Bad Decisions: Why companies miss the most important factor in executive hiring

Introducing HELIA

HELIA lies at the heart of Kingsley Gate's approach to helping companies hire executive leaders who unlock business performance. By adding an executive’s "decision-making style" as a third dimension for consideration, HELIA provides companies the....

Introducing HELIA

HELIA lies at the heart of Kingsley Gate's approach to helping companies hire executive leaders who unlock business performance. By adding an executive’s "decision-making style" as a third dimension for consideration, HELIA provides companies the....

...Visibility

into how a set of executive candidates will approach business decision making once hired

...Confidence

not only in those candidates’ qualifications, but in their ability to be effective and successful
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Experience
HELIA in 10 Seconds

Our research shows that decision making is correlated with financial performance, a crucial part of every executive’s remit, and significantly overlooked in the executive hiring process. HELIA allows you to understand the ways in which an executive leader prefers to process information, solve problems, and make decisions.
To help you understand how HELIA works, we invite you to a take a demo.
Answer the two questions below to get insights on your decision-making style.
(This demo is for you to experience HELIA in under 10 seconds. It may not be an accurate representation of the comprehensive results.)
Instruction
Each frame features a slider bar between the statement pair. Please read each set of statement pairs and move the slider in the the direction that best describes your "go-to decision-making approach."
Q1
I seek out environments in
which people are expected to
Decisively direct actions with clarity and precision
Exercise authority to expedite progress and keep things on track
Identify resources and mitigate roadblocks to facilitate the success of colleagues
Foster informal, spontaneous collaboration on issues and solutions
Slide either side of the answer
Showing Questions 1 of 2
Next >>
Q2
I seek out environments in
which people are expected to
Gradually introduce change to maintain consistency and predictability
Rely on disciplined implementation of change
Contribute to the benefits variety and change produce
Promote disruptive innovation and creativity
Slide either side of the answer to submit it.
Q1
I seek out environments in
which people are expected to
Decisively direct actions with clarity and precision
Exercise authority to expedite progress and keep things on track
Identify resources and mitigate roadblocks to facilitate the success of colleagues
Foster informal, spontaneous collaboration on issues and solutions
Slide either side of the answer
Showing Questions 1 of 2
Next >>
Q2
I seek out environments in
which people are expected to
Gradually introduce change to maintain consistency and predictability
Rely on disciplined implementation of change
Contribute to the benefits variety and change produce
Promote disruptive innovation and creativity
Slide either side of the answer to submit it.
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Your decision-making style may potentially learn towards being a
ARCHITECT
(optimization and accountability)
To receive a free, comprehensive report with detailed information about your decision-making approach, access the full version of HELIA’s insights tool
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Your decision-making style may potentially learn towards being a
VISIONARY
(accountability and expansion)
To receive a free, comprehensive report with detailed information about your decision-making approach, access the full version of HELIA’s insights tool
×
Your decision-making style may potentially learn towards being a
REFORMER
(Collaboration and optimization)
To receive a free, comprehensive report with detailed information about your decision-making approach, access the full version of HELIA’s insights tool
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Your decision-making style may potentially learn towards being a
ENERGIZER
(Expansion and collaboration)
To receive a free, comprehensive report with detailed information about your decision-making approach, access the full version of HELIA’s insights tool

Meet Our Executive Search Consultants

Our team of global consultants understands that the stakes are high. Having met and placed thousands of high-impact executive leaders around the world, they bring expertise in executive hiring across all industries, functions, and geographies. They collaborate across borders to offer bespoke, fit-to-purpose leadership solutions that meet your business requirements.

Our version of excellence

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Outside-the-Box
Thinking

Bringing you unconventional candidates with game-changing potential
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Culture-Aware
Recruiting

Finding leaders who strengthen and enhance one of your most unique assets, your operating culture
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Flexible and
Agile Approach

Making it easy to work with us; flexing to meet your specific goals and requirements
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Exclusive
Community Benefits

Making introductions within our network, so you can meet your next customer, vendor, JV, investor, M&A target, or advisor
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