Journey.
Leadership Consulting

Journey is a Leadership Consultancy that works with business owners and their leadership teams to enable growth, profitability and professional development by providing wide ranging expertise in people focussed business practices.

We partner with businesses and people who embrace innovative ideas and value fresh perspectives; those who can add capability and capacity through experience and inspiration; who actively listen, learn and lead by example; who create values driven inclusive environments in which people and companies prosper.

At our core is Intelligent Executive Search and Recruitment. For over 20 years we have helped multiple consultancies and agencies to grow their Boards and leadership teams by identifying, engaging with and securing the very best people for businesses in the UK, US and Europe.

By engaging in the onboarding process too, we are proud of our track record of successful outcomes for both the clients and the people we represent.

We also have considerable experience of adding revenue streams to already successful businesses and also setting up agencies from scratch, helping to steer early conversations into successful propositions.

We can talk through myriad case studies with pleasure.

How?

We invest time listening to and understanding our clients and their business challenges; we then create solutions to those challenges, addressing them through diverse but people-centric strategies. Specifically we deliver positive business outcomes through:

Leadership Coaching

Working with business leaders to achieve their goals and grow their businesses, pre-empting and overcoming obstacles along the way.

Search & Selection

Intelligent identification and introduction of current and future leaders to a diverse group of exceptional companies, consultancies and agencies.

Onboarding

The first 100 days offers a unique opportunity for new joiners to assess and recommend new opportunities for commercial development, whilst equally offering a time of change and adaptation for the new joiner. We here to support that process for both sides.

Career Coaching

Working with the leaders of today and tomorrow to meet their specific professional challenges and development requirements. We offer a raft of tools and practical solutions tailored to an individual’s needs to enable them to realise their full potential.

Recruitment/RPO

Managing recruitment for large scale, high demand business growth and in-housing & training of talent & recruitment expertise.

HR Consultancy

We are closely affiliated with Journey HR , the highly respected HR specialists (separate companies with shared values).

Who are we?

Driven by providing solutions, we are business people first and foremost. We are very experienced, financially literate and very well networked. Hopefully you’ll find us enjoyable and rewarding to work with too.
Giles Vigor-Robertson

Founder & Managing Partner,
Search and Leadership Coach

In 1994 Giles began his career in an International insight agency before moving into recruitment, search & selection specifically for brand led agency businesses. Nearly thirty years on Giles pieces commercial projects together for his clients; whether that be business, team or for individuals, he acts as a catalyst for movement in business thinking and behaviour change. As a certified coach with a commercial focus Giles, often creates bespoke approaches and tools specific to the task(s) at hand.

He has been involved with team build through search and selection, building agency employer brands, led recruitment process outsourcing projects within very high human capital demand environments, he’s assisted in agency M&A process too; he loves helping with team building for new capabilities and creating start-up partnerships. He has managed Journey as a referral based business since its inception and he continues to be busy with on-going projects in Europe, North America and the Far East.

Saul Pearce
Managing Partner

After a long and successful career in advertising and marketing that included winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, building a European network for a global marketing services business and negotiating a major football sponsorship deal, Saul decided to change course and become a business and executive search consultant. He works with his clients to understand their business and the challenges they face in order to provide cohesive solutions based on his experience of building and leading companies himself and by finding and mentoring exceptionally talented people to become the next generation of leaders.

Saul has been Managing Partner at Journey since 2012 and has placed MDs, FDs, COOs, CDOs, ECDs, UX and Service Design Directors, Managing Consultants and Strategy Directors, New Business Directors, HRDs and other departmental leaders for companies operating in UK, US and Europe. Saul is currently in the process of completing his professional coaching qualifications.

Dan Whitmore
Associate Director

Dan brings a fresh perspective to the business and provides excellent recruitment resource for our clients looking to fill non-Board roles. Dan specialises in working with creative agencies of all stripes and filling a variety of important roles with the right people at the right time. His approach to recruitment is as tailored to individual client needs as is our approach to retained search.

What some of our clients think…

“…a MASSIVE thank you for the huge efforts on the search. I am so excited to start working with our new MD Europe and our new Head of Strategy WW. We genuinely couldn’t have found them without you both.”

MF, Chief People Officer, Global Brand Design Agency, UK

“Giles is a fantastic coach. Not only is he an active listener, he is clearly passionate and invested in my individual growth. I feel I have a champion on my side, reassuring me of both my potential and accomplishments. Giles has a performance mindset, which is needed at any management level. He is objective, always giving sound advice and is a guaranteed safe space for me personally.”

JC, US Head of Creative, Brand Design Agency

“Saul invested time in getting to know and understand our business, our culture and our values. This has enabled him to work proactively introducing candidates who are not only high quality but also complementary to our team.”

PG, CEO, Marketing Strategy Consultancy

“Giles and I were introduced by a mutual friend way back in 2010. Over the last 5 years we’ve had much greater contact, working on a variety of businesses challenges together. Although first and foremost Giles is a people person, his ability to find the right person for a role is underpinned by his strong understanding of how businesses tick. Both culturally and from a financial perspective. An important distinction as cultural sensitivity is ineffective unless it fits within the tactical and strategic objective of a dynamic business.

Many times he has shown how working with him as an integer between Board & Leadership has given me valuable insight into how to manage difficult & sensitive conversations, helping me land my part of the puzzle effectively.”

IR, CFO, Creative Services Industry, USA/EU

“I don’t think that there is a search/recruitment partner I trust more than Saul at Journey. He really understands our business and every time we have engaged for a specific and difficult hire he has come through with highly qualified recommendations.”

RS, Partner, Design and Management Consultancy

“Quite simply the best recruiter I’ve worked with! Dan is as helpful, honest and proactive as they come and a joy to work with. I have worked with Dan to recruit for starting up a brand new team at an agency but then also he helped me find my next role when that time came. He was exemplary in both scenarios and would genuinely call him a mate now after working with him for years. Would highly recommend to a friend… And I have!”

DC, Managing Director, Digital Agency, UK

“I highly recommend Giles for his invaluable coaching and commercial guidance; his creative thinking and holistic perspective prompted us to make commercial changes resulting in tangible business improvements.

His approach is always customized, personalised and ethical, making him an exceptional choice for personal and professional development for both senior leaders and teams.”

SG, Head of Sales & Marketing, Luxury Business, Dubai

If you are looking to unlock growth and profitability in your business and the professional development of your people, please talk to us.

We will listen, interpret, advise and assist in every way we can.

Giles Vigor-Robertson
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Saul Pearce
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