What we do
1805 is a partner to transformational businesses.
The majority of 1805’s work is with private equity portfolio, FTSE 250 and challenger businesses. Our clients are focused on transformative growth, be that Series C stage, towards IPO, restructuring or international expansion.
Leadership succession, sustainability, agility, data and digital leadership are regular themes in our work.
1805 combines independent advice and specialist knowledge, with international business perspective and the values of long term partnership with clients.
We support the Exco and Boards of business across the following areas:
Executive Search
Board and CEO appointments
Chief Commercial, Sustainability, Digital, Finance Officers
FDs, CROs, COOs, Data & Analytics.
Market & Organisation Insight
Market Insight & Competitor reviews.
Growth culture & organisation development.
Pre-deal/acquisition Team evaluation.
International Growth
New region & country team builds & mobilisation.
Specialist knowledge of UK, Australia, Singapore and Middle East
Leadership & Talent Advisory
Organisation Design
‘Level Shifting’.
Leadership & Team assessment.
Mentoring.
Flexible Partners
Referencing
Driving internal hiring processes
Benchmarking.
Simon Black
Rebecca Nicholson
Toby Ellison
Wil Wilhelm
Heidi Mason
Susan Boyd
JAMES SPEARPOINT
Inspiring Leadership is at the core of 1805. Challenging search industry norms, we act as a quasi in-house partner for the long term, with agility, transparency and speed.
Operating with a fresh and commercial approach to executive search, 1805 supports its partners and their people agendas, providing executive search services, market & organisation insight and leadership consulting. Led from London, Simon has known and worked with 1805’s associate partners for 15 years plus. The team has a strong core, built on trust through delivery; transformation, integrity and impact readily describe 1805’s approach.
We work principally to a retained, fixed fee model and 1805’s current clients are relationships that have all continued to grow over the last 4 years. Working flexibly, we have also taken equity in lieu of fees with earlier stage businesses and have aligned payment schedules around our clients’ key milestones, examples being: grant of a banking licence; completion of Board build out; and team build for a new location.