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Executive search

Find the leader the role needs.

We help boards, CEOs and founders find leaders for roles where the cost of getting it wrong is high.

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Experience supporting leaders at

Organisations include Air New Zealand, Vista Group, UpGuard, Jetstar, BDO, Sime Darby, NQPHN, Plexure, Qantas, MediaWorks, Queensland Rail, Lions Clubs International, Queensland Pharmacy Business Ownership Council, IDEAL / Rexel Group, Seqwater, Jabiru Community Services, Northland Waste, Woolworths Group.

Four capabilities. One decision standard.

Begin wherever the decision needs help. We work alongside your team and carry the context from one capability into the next.

Executive search

Build and assess the leadership field from a clear role definition through appointment.

Role definition · market · assessment · appointment

Leadership assessment

Understand capability, judgement and risk through psychometrics, structured interviews and careful synthesis.

Selection · succession · development

Succession strategy

Identify critical roles, test successor readiness and build credible options before the transition.

Critical roles · readiness · bench strength · action

Talent mapping & market intelligence

See where leadership capability sits, qualify relevant people and understand the market before you need to move.

Market intelligence · external benchmarks · relationships
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Great leadership starts with good judgement.

Across search, assessment, succession and mapping, the same four disciplines keep the work clear.

  1. Start with the work.

    Define the outcomes, context and trade-offs before discussing people, tools or familiar answers.

    Every mandate begins with a clear view of what good leadership must accomplish here, not a generic profile.

  2. Look beyond the obvious.

    Widen the field of view across markets, career paths, internal potential and alternative hypotheses.

    The decision is not constrained by familiar names, conventional backgrounds or the strongest first impression.

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  1. Follow the evidence.

    Use structured inquiry, market evidence and assessment tools where useful to test the same questions consistently.

    Evidence accumulates against a shared standard while judgement remains sensitive to the context.

  2. Say what we think.

    Synthesize the trade-offs, name the risks and give a clear view of what the evidence means for the decision.

    Decision-makers get a candid recommendation and the reasoning behind it, not a data dump.

Portrait of Jason Hunt

Jason Hunt, Managing Partner

Senior attention on every mandate.

Leadership Quarter is led by Jason Hunt, Managing Partner, who has worked both in-house and in leading search firms.

Based in Sydney and trained in organisational psychology, Jason brings search discipline and an operating view of what leadership roles demand.

Clients work directly with Jason throughout: shaping the brief, calibrating the market, testing the evidence and resolving the final trade-offs together.

Outside work, Jason is an elite marathon runner, world record holder and former professional triathlete. The same habits shape his search work: disciplined preparation, patience over a long process, calm decisions under pressure and a strong finish.

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