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We work closely with our clients to acquire and build the right leadership capability to ensure they are well positioned for future success.

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Sheldon Harris, Your Trusted Advisors

Founded over ten years ago, Sheldon Harris today comprises a group of handpicked consultants who are trusted advisors to Boards, Chief Executives and Senior Executive teams.

Our team advises clients in Australia and globally, across a range of sectors including Financial Services, Information Technology & Telecommunications, Energy & Resources, Industrial, Manufacturing, FMCG and Retail.

We also have deep expertise in Finance & Risk, Technology & Digital, Fintech, Human Resources & Marketing functions.

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Our Services

What We Offer

Our Firm provides a range of critical services to ensure our clients have the right leadership capability now and into the future to meet key business challenges.

Executive Search

Leveraging our extensive expertise and deep industry knowledge along with our network of alliance partners..

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CEO SUCCESSION & SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT

The executive bench strength of organisations is consistently tested. While many organisations have…

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TALENT ASSESSMENT & DEVELOPMENT

Whether it be for an existing team, the arrival of a new leader, or post-merger acquisition, having the right people…

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Board Search

With unprecedented scrutiny of Board performance, combined with continuing economic uncertainty the demand for a talented

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Board Reviews

Our consultants have worked closely with both listed and unlisted Boards to build an understanding of Board cohesiveness and performance

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Board Skill Audit

The solid platform for any Board to effectively govern is the skills, capabilities and experience of the individual Directors

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psychometric profiling

A deeper understanding of key leaders through psychometric insights has tremendous potential to add value to a business.

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integration & onboarding

Ensuring a newly appointed executive is successful doesn’t end with the negotiation of a contract.

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remuneration reviews

An executive search led remuneration review offers you a targeted perspective on the remuneration challenges of retaining key leadership talent.

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About Us

Building A Deep
Understanding With Our Clients

Critical to any senior leadership or Board appointment is the need to invest in understanding the culture and values of our clients.

While ensuring candidates have the requisite skills and experiences to tackle challenges, its is often the lack of alignment between the organisation and the individuals motivations and aspirations that can derail or stymie success.

Our consultants seek to understand these subtle nuances and customise an approach to ensure alignment of all parties, even if that means a more complex and extended process.

Case studies

Client Engagements

Listed Consumer Goods: CEO Search

  • $200m-$300m revenue
  • Geographically dispersed workforce
  • Domestic and international clients
  • Manufacturing, marketing and distribution operations

background

The long-standing organisation has well established Australian operations and represents a number of iconic brands in the Australian market. The business had, however, been under share price and performance pressure for some time. When the incumbent CEO resigned, the Chair sought a thorough approach, but also an efficient process and timeframe due to the market sensitivity.

the challenge

The new CEO would work with the board in setting a new strategy for the business, while also turning around the underperformance of the business and rebuilding investor confidence. The ideal candidates would therefore have sector knowledge but critically, a balance of strategic and commercial/turnaround skills, but also turnaround/change management experience and stakeholder skills at an appropriate leadership level.

the approach

Leveraging a detailed briefing from the Board, a very detailed brief set the scene for a focused search strategy and subsequent execution. A targeted market mapping exercise led to the timely identification of high potential candidates, with only qualified candidates (interested, affordable, right skills) then presented to the Board.

the outcome

The Board were pleased to appoint the successful candidate within three months.

Major Transport Company: Chair

  • ASX Listed
  • Australian, Singapore & UK Based Operations
  • Strong Growth Trajectory

background

With the recent retirement of the CEO and continued strong growth aspirations, there was a need to appoint a seasoned Chair with a strong logistics and transport background who could continue to drive the growth of the company, both locally and internationally.

the challenge

To ensure that investment markets were not alarmed by the transition of the CEO and Chair in relatively short succession.

the approach

Working with the Board Nominations Committee we undertook a comprehensive global mapping, initially on an undisclosed basis, to identify prospective candidates.

the outcome

The new Chair joined the Board with key shareholders reacting positively to the appointment.

Major industry superannuation fund: Chief Investment Officer

  • Public Offer Fund
  • 1 Million+ Members
  • Mix Of Direct And Fund Of Fund Investing
  • 40+ Investment Professionals

background

The new approach came with a need for a new CIO who would have the mandate to design, build, implement and manage the new investment strategy and supporting operating model for the fund, also leading the investment team through what would be significant change to how they have operated historically.

the challenge

We therefore recommended and agreed to an exploratory and iterative interview approach with more interviewees than is usual to enable thinking on the optimal candidate to settle during the interview process.

the approach

Leveraging a detailed briefing from various client stakeholders we formed a detailed view of what was needed to be successful in the role.

the outcome

The successful candidate joined the fund in 2020 with all parties comfortable with the direction that the appointment represented.

Mutual Bank: Chair

  • National Distribution
  • 400K+ Members
  • Strong Growth Agenda
  • Core System Replacement

background

With the retirement of the long serving Chair there was a need to identify and appoint an experience, seasoned financial services executive with a track record of driving growth through digital channels while undertaking a significant transformation agenda involving the replacement of the core banking platform.

the challenge

The brief required not only the identification of an appropriately qualified individual with the requisite governance, transformation and growth experience, but also an understanding of the nuances of a member based organisation.

the approach

Detailed discussions held with the Board to not only understand the key business challenges, but also the culture of the organisation and the intricacies of the election process of a member appointed director to develop an approach to position the opportunity to engage high quality talent.

the outcome

Appointment of a Chair with requisite skills and strong alignment to the values of a member based organisation.

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our expertise

Advising Clients Across Australia And Globally

Our model enables us to source and secure leading international executive talent from Australia.

We are further supported by a select group of associates in key global markets to execute both domestic and global engagements.
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our expertise

Advising Clients Across Australia And Globally

Looking to secure the right governance, leadership and organisational capability to ensure their organisations are positioned for future success.

We draw on a range of select associates in key global markets, and execute both domestic and global engagements for our Australian clients. Our flexible, nimble execution model allows us to deliver high quality outcomes to our clients.

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our approach

Investing In Relationships

The success of any Board or senior executive appointment is ensuring that there is strong alignment and congruency of interests amongst all key stakeholders.

In undetaking any engagement our consultants invest heavily in developing an appreciation of a clients values and culture.

Similarly we seek to fully understand the ambitions and motivations of prospective candidates.

We measure our success in the ongoing relationships we build and maintain with our clients and the long tenure of our candidates.
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Diversity and inclusion

Diversity And Inclusion Is Important To Us

The team at Sheldon Harris is well represented both in terms of gender and cultural diversity.

We understand the importance of presenting a diverse range of high potential executives not only in delivering outstanding results for our clients, but also in incrementally adding to, or uplifting the culture of their organisations.

More than 50% of our placed candidates are female or have come from multicultural/ethnic backgrounds.

our consultants

our fee model

A Flexible And Transparent Fee Model

Unlike other firms, our fees are either fixed or capped reflecting the time and effort expected to be taken to complete the engagement.

In this respect our mindset is very aligned to the organisation’s we work with as we seek to provide objective advice in a transparent manner, untied to the compensation of an individual. If we deliver ahead of time our clients benefit from our early success.

We guarantee that if the successful candidate is terminated within 12 months of commencement due to his/her personal or professional performance, we will find a qualified replacement without charging additional professional fees.

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Why Engage Sheldon Harris?

  • We have the advantage of deep
    experience and insight at a strategic level
  • Experience in delivering strong search
    outcomes for critical appointments
  • Extensive track record of Board, CEO
    and Group Executive appointments
  • Strong track record on sourcing talent globally
  • Strong, well-credentialed team, with international search experience
  • A flexible and transparent fee model
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