The people you choose shape everything that follows.
Follett Parker is a boutique executive search firm
Follett Parker is a boutique executive search firm, shaped by over a decade of experience working alongside investors and operators in PE/VC environments.
The focus is on hires that sit at the intersection of leadership and strategy, and the roles that shape how an organisation thinks, decides, and moves.
While that grounding informs how we work – the judgement, pace, and mandate rigour – the future is broader. The need for high-trust, strategically capable operators now extends well beyond any single sector.
The sector knowledge, candidate relationships, and search discipline that make Follett Parker useful are developed over time, through judgement, consistency, and care.
Why work with us?
The process of successfully integrating individuals within teams begins from the very beginning of all candidate contact and does not end on joining. We work with candidates and clients to communicate the value proposition and to position the right candidates for success.
Some of the reasons our clients come to us:
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We don’t believe clients don’t know. Clients do know and we are here to support you in achieving your people goals.
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We are not tied down by legacy processes. We are nimble and are able to offer custom solutions that work for each situation.
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We are signed up to the principles of the B Lab working towards B Corp Pending status. That means adhering to high standards of social and environmental accountability, performance and transparency within all of our operations.
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We are kind and we care. We are committed to helping you achieve your goals. We will listen and we will be relentless in pursuit of the right outcomes that work for your specific circumstance.
Diversity is life's most essential feature
Our values
Four values shape everything at Follett Parker.
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Humility. We do not pretend to know more than we do. We ask questions, we listen, and we update our view when the evidence requires it.
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Relational intelligence. Search is a relationship business. We invest in understanding the people on both sides of every mandate – not just their requirements and experience, but their context, their pressures, and what they actually need.
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Transparency. We tell clients what we think, even when it is not what they hoped to hear. We tell candidates the same. There is no version of a good long-term relationship built on comfortable omissions.
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Harness difference. We believe that teams diverse in background, experience, temperament, and perspective make better decisions. This is a view about organisational performance, supported by evidence, that we bring to every search we run.
We believe in win-win solutions for the candidate and the client.
Our purpose
We are a partner of choice for organisations who are seeking to find senior talent and who share our values of looking after people and planet.
We specialise in liminal roles that sit at the intersection of leadership and strategy, and the roles that shape how an organisation thinks, decides, and moves, and their direct reports. We like a challenge so if you have a tricky or nuanced search, we’d be happy to help.
We'd love to work with you
If you are considering a senior hire and want to work with someone who has spent nearly two decades on your side of the table – who understands what it actually feels like to be the client – we would welcome a conversation.
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B-Corp (pending)
Follett Parker is proud to have received a B Corp Pending certification. We’ve signed up to the principles of the B Lab and are working towards satisfying the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability.
B stands for benefit. That is always striving to do better and thereby inducing positive change for our employees, our clients, our suppliers, and the planet.
