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Chief Technology Officer – Global Health Organisation
Context
A global health organisation embarked on a strategic journey to enhance its digital and technology capabilities. The mandate was to drive greater technology enablement across its programs, requiring the appointment of a Chief Technology Officer to join the executive leadership team.
Talent Implications
The organisation sought a CTO with demonstrated experience in innovating and transforming technology and digital functions within fast-paced environments. Experience managing international teams and strong alignment with the organisation’s culture and values were essential for success.
Search Strategy
The search targeted candidates from organisations that had undergone significant digital transformation, particularly digital-native businesses and those with deep consumer digital engagement.
Outcome
After an extensive global search, a seasoned technology leader with a strong track record in leadership, transformation, and commercial acumen was appointed, commencing in August 2023.
Chief Commercial Officer – Global Education Service Provider
Context
A leading education group created a new executive role to unify marketing and product. Reporting to the Group CEO, the position was designed to strengthen brand positioning, align with quality standards, and drive growth through increased attendance and school acquisitions. More
Talent Implications
The brief required a leader with experience integrating marketing and product strategies, underpinned by strong commercial acumen. The successful candidate needed to leverage data and customer insights, build high-performing teams, and deliver transformation in competitive consumer markets.
Search Strategy
Trova targeted senior leaders from consumer-facing industries with proven success in brand repositioning, customer acquisition, and growth. Priority was given to those able to balance complex stakeholder demands and drive revenue across both B2B and B2C channels.
Outcome
An executive with over 20 years’ leadership experience across membership, health, sport, and consumer services was appointed, recognised for delivering growth through customer insights, brand storytelling, and product innovation.
Chief People Officer – Global Education Service Provider
Context
A leading education group was looking to hire a new Chief People Officer role as part of the Executive Leadership Team. With a workforce of more than 3,500 across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland, the organisation was entering a growth phase where workforce optimisation and retention were critical. More
Talent Implications
The role required a commercially astute people leader experienced in scaling HR functions within large, casualised, and regulated workforces. Priorities included reducing turnover, embedding leadership and succession frameworks, and leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and visibility.
Search Strategy
Trova targeted senior HR executives from consumer, health, and education sectors with proven credentials in transformation and workforce optimisation. Candidates with industrial relations expertise, cross-jurisdictional experience, and success in aligning people functions to growth strategies were prioritised.
Outcome.
An executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience in large, multi-site organisations was appointed, recognised for delivering transformation, improving retention, and implementing modern HR systems in complex workforce environments.
Chief People Officer – Investment Group
Context
An expanded and increasingly diverse portfolio, combined with growth in the core investment workforce saw the need to lift capability in the leadership of people and culture. Geo political and macro economic conditions were creating more and more complexity for this organisation’s leaders. More
Talent Implications
The ask of Trova Talent was to attract the interest of a very sophisticated and highly experienced people & culture executive with expertise in development & career pathways for highly skilled and high intellect investment professionals. The role also contributed to key executive talent decisions across the organisation’s assets.
Search Strategy
Talent with experience from both professional services as well as operational industries was deemed meaningful. Equally important was commercial credibility & being able to contribute to strategic business decisions as part of a highly astute executive leadership team. As a result of the very international flavour of this organisation, Trova considered both onshore and offshore Chief People Officer talent.
Outcome
In partnership with our client we designed a process that served to engage key senior leaders across the group to educate executive candidates & in turn provide our talent an opportunity to share a point of view and perspective on where they could bring most value. The successful Chief People Officer bought incredibly versatile experience & the requisite cognitive capacity that was valued by this organisation.