Unlocking Leadership Potential. Powering Organisational Growth.

Vantyr Group is a specialist executive search and leadership development firm focused on high-risk leadership appointments. We combine executive search, rigorous assessment, and structured executive integration coaching into a single, accountable mandate. This model exists because traditional search optimises for placement. We optimise for performance.

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​​The problem we solve:

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40% of new executives fail within 18 months, costing organisations up to 10x the executive's salary in recruitment fees and lost opportunity. The failure point isn't the search, it's what happens after the hire. We've built a model that addresses both: rigorous executive search combined with leadership assessment and executive coaching structured around the first 180 days. This isn't an add-on; it's embedded in every engagement.

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Who we work with:

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Our clients typically come to us when leadership hiring has strategic consequences:

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Private equity firms placing executives across portfolio companies - a new CEO to professionalise operations ahead of exit, a CFO to prepare for scale, a CTO to modernise infrastructure that's become a value-creation constraint.

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Family offices backing founder-led businesses through transition - adding commercial or operational leadership for the first time, or upgrading the team when growth has outpaced capability.

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Mid-market boards navigating transformation - when strategy is clear but execution is stalling, and everyone knows the leadership team needs upgrading but can't afford a failed placement.

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How we work:

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Our engagements are structured to reduce leadership appointment risk, with clear milestones across search, assessment, and early integration. ​​Every engagement includes:

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• Executive search and rigorous assessment

• Evidence-based leadership evaluation

• Six months of executive integration coaching structured around the first 90 and 180-day milestones

We price engagements as a fixed fee rather than a percentage of compensation. This creates better incentives - we're optimising for the right hire and successful integration, not the highest salary. For clients making multiple appointments across a portfolio or building out leadership teams, the economics are straightforward: you get the quality of work you'd expect from a top-tier firm, with integration support included, at roughly half the total investment.

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​We take on a small number of mandates where leadership failure is not an acceptable outcome.