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Expectations for leaders have radically changed, highlighting a critical gap in Australian leadership capability. As experts recruiting Executive-level and C-suite talent, we understand the pressure organisations face when sourcing executive leaders.

Our Executive Search practice recruits Board, Director, C-suite, and General Management level appointments including:

Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and Directors
CEOs, Managing Directors, General Managers, and Country Managers
C-suite and divisional directors - COO, CFO, CTO/CIO, CMO, CPO, CRO, Sales Directors

Since 2004, the Six Degrees Executive Search practice has achieved national reach across Australia and (through our PRAXI Alliance partnership) into international executive talent markets.

We are valued by clients for our candidate-led, agile approach that is underpinned by quality processes and frameworks including our proprietary 6Dx assessment methodology.

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Deep expertise. Your industry. Your leaders.

Great executive search begins with knowing an industry from the inside. Over two decades, our practice has developed genuine depth across Australia's most competitive industries - Consumer Goods & FMCG, Retail, Healthcare, Industrial & B2B, Technology & Digital, Not-for-Profit & Education. We bring established networks, live market intelligence and a real understanding of the leadership dynamics that define each sector.

That depth extends across the full C-suite. Alongside CEO, MD and Board appointments, we have dedicated expertise in COO, CFO, CIO, CMO, Operations, Sales Director and Chief Revenue Officer appointments, functional leadership roles where sector knowledge and an active, trusted network make the difference between a good shortlist and the right hire.

We operate with the same rigour and process discipline you would expect from a global search firm - structured research methodology, comprehensive market mapping and a proprietary assessment framework, with something the globals cannot offer: genuine local market depth, senior practitioner involvement from brief to placement and relationships built over two decades in the Australian market.

Our clients span global subsidiaries, private equity-backed businesses, family-owned companies and purpose-driven organisations, united by a need for a search partner who combines global-standard process with the intimacy and accountability of a firm that has something to prove on every search.

Our approach to executive search

Organisations can only evolve if they have strong leaders. In an era of continuous transformation, finding the right talent for Board and C-Suite roles is more important than ever. Six Degrees Executive meets this challenge by employing an advanced research methodology combined with a rigorous assessment process to find executive talent that exceeds expectations.

Our executive recruitment services are underpinned by our proprietary 6Dx methodology, designed by organisational psychologists to reduce the margin for risk and ensure an objective approach to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes. 6Dx provides our clients with a customised capability assessment to evaluate, compare and benchmark executive-level candidates’ skills and experience. Learn more about Executive Assessment and the 6Dx methodology.

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Recruitment & talent services

We provide a range of complementary recruitment and talent services:

Creating diverse and inclusive futures

As a leading executive search and specialist recruitment agency, Six Degrees Executive partners with organisations to drive positive change through diverse and inclusive leadership.

Our Executive Search practice works closely with organisations to identify executive talent that leads from the top and embeds meaningful, long-term cultural change.

Leadership knowledge

Determined to break the rules of traditional search firms, our focus is on delivering a personalised, relationship-based approach to executive search.

Our clients benefit from extensive leadership knowledge, our in-depth industry insight and knowledge of the changing skills, challenges, and pressures on executive leaders have been acquired through our years of successful experience specialising across industry sectors with small, medium and large companies and ASX listed organisations.