We work at pace, but don’t believe in quick fixes. We go above and beyond to identify the people who’ll transform your business, drive growth and advance your approach to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Welcome to a fresh approach to talent
Executive search
Search | Mapping & Benchmarking
Find the leaders your business needs to grow and transform.
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Executive interim
Solve your urgent interim needs
We deliver rigorously vetted executive interims at speed, leveraging deep industry expertise for critical leadership needs.
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Leadership advisory
Build a high-performance leadership team
We drive leadership team performance through offsites, executive coaching and succession planning to future-proof your leadership bench.
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Leadership assessment
Make talent decisions with confidence
We assess leadership capability, readiness and fit with the unparalleled accuracy of the Essenta Discovery Process®
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Working with Essenta and the team on a recent VP Finance and Strategy role was an absolute pleasure. Their proactive approach and dedication to providing high-quality candidates made the entire process seamless. Essenta’s deep understanding of candidate expectations and skilled negotiation ensured everything ran smoothly, and their professionalism throughout was truly appreciated. I highly recommend their services for anyone looking for top-tier executive search support.
Selina de Ruiter
Senior Director, Head of Global Talent Acquisition
Deliveroo


The Essenta team is hands down the best partner we have ever worked with in not only identifying and recruiting top talent but combining it with deep analysis of our needs and gaps that completely transformed what we thought we were looking for. Their unique leadership assessment tools and ability to draw insights from executive teams shaped our plans for our revamped executive team. Armed with that knowledge they brought us stellar candidates and were an onboarding and transformation partner. It's a new model combining the best in organizational psychology and leadership development with executive search and I can't recommend them highly enough.
Jonathan Rosen
Chief Executive Officer, Orchestra


I’ve worked with Essenta for a number of years across different industries. What sets them apart from the pack is that they operate as a true business partner in my pursuit of talent. Their team consistently deliver top-tier candidates who truly align with our culture and long-term goals. They bring market insight, are strategic in their approach and never lose sight of candidate experience.
Deborah Lee
Group Chief People Officer, Compass Group


Essenta are a strategic and thoughtful recruitment resource, asking the right questions to help guide quality decision making for building teams with longevity. Finding gaps in skill sets, and matching long term growth objectives to recruiting is part of their key skill set. Beyond that Essenta also completes thorough market sweeps with their team to find the best candidate for any given role providing the full range of services a GP might need for a
high-quality recruitment outcome.
Gemma Braithwaite
Partner, All Seas Capital


We have worked with Essenta for a number of years and feel they have become a true partner to us. They understand our business, how we invest and the relationship we have with our portfolio companies. We have worked with them for their expertise in consumer industries whilst also being experts in private equity. The team have provided us a lot of support in hiring a great pool of management into our assets.
Emilio Di Spiezio Sardo
Founding Partner, BlueGem

Offices in London and New York
Clients across Americas, Asia and EMEA
13 partners – all leaders in their markets
24 consultants and research associates