TRUST

THE SEARCH

TRUST
THE SEARCH

Who will take you further?

It’s when we ask this most obvious yet powerful question that the listening and searching begins. What quickly follows is critical understanding of your strategy and culture, as well as the attributes you must have at executive level.

Executive Search

The trusted core of our business.

We partner with Boards, CEOs and Executive teams to solve the most critical leadership challenges, drawing on decades of experience and an extensive local and global network that spans industries and functions.

Every search is underpinned by deep market intelligence, structured assessment and thorough referencing to ensure you see not only the most visible executives but also exceptional leaders others may overlook.

You’ll experience clarity and actionable solutions to your complex leadership decisions, discretion, creativity, with sharp insights into succession, team dynamics and market positioning.

The result is the right leader, at the right time, with the right impact, ensuring your organisation is equipped for both immediate success and long-term growth.

TALENT MAPPING

Understanding the leadership landscape is vital to staying ahead.

Our Talent Mapping provides deep, actionable insights into where the strongest leadership talent resides, across your sector and beyond. Led by experienced consultants and specialist researchers, we conduct confidential market analysis to uncover, benchmark and map leadership capability across industries and geographies.

This process goes well beyond competitors, drawing on adjacent industries and best-practice organisations to identify exceptional leaders who align with your organisation’s future. The outcome is a detailed market analysis map that highlights both immediate and emerging leadership pipelines, giving stakeholders the intelligence to make confident, future-focused decisions.

SUCCESSION

You will protect the future of your business when you have the right leaders in place.

Our approach is to be proactive, giving you and your organisation the confidence that critical roles are protected and future ready. By continually identifying and assessing external leadership talent against your existing team, we reduce succession risk and strengthen organisational resilience.

We provide continuity and protection in key roles, integrated succession plans that balance internal and external pipelines, and objective benchmarking to ensure you always have the strongest leaders. Tailored insights also deliver clear, relevant reporting for CEOs, Boards, and People & Culture leaders, while our market intelligence highlights emerging opportunities and competitor activity.

The result is a future-proof succession strategy you can trust, that safeguards business stability.

Executive Assessment

Real leadership isn’t just about today, it’s about the future.

Our Executive Assessment offering provides a clear, evidence-based view of the strengths, potential and readiness of your critical executive talent. Combining robust assessment tools, structured interviews and behavioural insights, we go beyond surface-level capabilities to uncover what leaders can achieve in the future.

By benchmarking against market and leadership standards, we give you the confidence to make informed decisions about hiring, succession and development. The result is a comprehensive assessment summary that identifies high-potential leaders, highlights development opportunities and equips stakeholders with the intelligence to build a resilient, future-ready leadership pipeline.

PSYCHOMETRIC TESTING

Here, we strengthen the executive search process by providing an additional layer of insight.

One that goes beyond the methods we incorporate into the assessment of shortlisted talent. Psychometric Testing helps illuminate a leader’s decision-making style, resilience and cultural alignment, giving Boards, CEOs and executives greater confidence in critical appointments. Used thoughtfully, these tools support more objective decision-making, supplement insights uncovered through search, reduce risk and ensure leaders are well equipped to deliver long-term organisational value. Trova offers the expertise of Hogan accreditation for our Psychometric Testing.

Functional Practices

The CEO role demands vision, resilience, and the ability to inspire at every level. At Trova Talent, we take a tailored approach to CEO search, recognising each organisation’s unique context. We’ve led appointments across ASX-listed, digital-first, and private equity–backed companies, from scaling market leaders to guiding complex turnarounds. We seek CEOs who deliver results with authenticity, influence, and impact.
The COO provides the operational backbone of an organisation, ensuring strategy is translated into execution. From scaling processes and optimising performance to leading large, complex transformations, we identify COOs who thrive under pressure and drive sustainable efficiency. Our approach emphasises leaders who balance operational excellence with adaptability in rapidly evolving markets.
The CFO role goes beyond finance — it is about shaping strategy, driving growth, and building trust with stakeholders. We work with organisations to appoint CFOs who bring financial rigour, commercial acumen, and the ability to partner with boards and CEOs. Whether navigating capital markets, managing risk, or enabling expansion, we look for finance leaders who combine precision with vision.
The CIO is the architect of digital and technology strategy, aligning innovation with business goals. We support organisations in identifying CIOs who drive transformation, safeguard systems, and unlock new value through technology. Our candidates deliver not only operational reliability but also forward-thinking leadership to keep businesses ahead of disruption.
The CCO champions the customer across the entire enterprise. We look for leaders who build trust, enhance loyalty, and create seamless customer experiences. By uniting product, service, and brand, our CCOs drive engagement and long-term growth through a relentless focus on the customer journey.
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is the catalyst for enterprise-wide digital transformation, connecting customer experience, technology, data and commercial strategy into a cohesive growth agenda. We partner with organisations to identify CDOs who modernise legacy environments, embed digital capability, and accelerate innovation at scale. Our candidates combine strategic vision with execution discipline driving new revenue streams, enhancing customer engagement, and building future-ready operating models that position businesses to compete in an increasingly digital economy.

The CMO is the voice of the customer and the driver of brand growth. At Trova Talent, we place CMOs who excel in building customer-centric strategies, driving digital marketing, and strengthening brand equity. Whether repositioning global brands or launching challenger businesses, our CMOs blend creativity with commercial impact.
The CRO role unites sales, marketing, and customer success under a single growth mandate. We seek out CROs who can accelerate revenue by aligning teams, optimising go-to-market strategies, and expanding into new markets. The right leaders combine analytical rigour with entrepreneurial energy to deliver measurable growth.
The CPO drives product vision, innovation, and execution. We partner with organisations to find leaders who can translate customer needs into market-leading solutions, while balancing long-term strategy with agile delivery. Our CPOs are innovators who create products that inspire loyalty and fuel business expansion.
The CHRO is the guardian of culture, talent, and organisational capability. We identify CHROs who shape people strategies that attract, retain, and inspire top talent. From navigating workforce transformation to embedding diversity and inclusion, we look for HR leaders who align people with purpose and performance.
As AI reshapes industries, the CDOA bridges data science and strategy. We appoint leaders who harness data and AI to unlock innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage. The best CDOAs combine technical expertise with ethical responsibility, ensuring organisations deploy AI responsibly while driving measurable outcomes.
The Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) plays a critical role in driving enterprise-wide change, aligning strategy, operations and capability to deliver sustained commercial outcomes. As disruption accelerates, particularly through AI, digital and data, demand for executive transformation leadership continues to grow. We partner with organisations to appoint CTOs who lead complex transformation agendas, from operating model redesign to performance uplift. They combine strategic clarity with pragmatic execution, align stakeholders, and deliver measurable impact at pace.

Ours is very much a human approach, supported by an evolutionary research process, where you'll experience game changing collaboration and real transparency that will deliver greater hiring insights.

We operate at the highest levels, across most industries, and appoint leadership roles in tech, finance, customer, digital, human resources and many others. You can trust our search to deliver to you the highest performing executive.

Let’s get to work.