OUR Expertise

What Clients can expect from Optitude 360

Whether you need a CEO, Sales and Marketing Director, or a whole new IT support group, we can find you a candidate who will fit perfectly into your organisation and team. Alongside tracking down the very best candidates, we use screening tools to ensure the right candidates have the right attitude, personality, skill set, and track record to deliver the very best results for you and your organisation. Just let us know what you are looking for.

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Human Resources

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CIO

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CEO & Board

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Board Advisory

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Finance

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Technology

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OURBENEFITS

Why Choose Us?

Integrity

Our reputation is our single biggest asset. We maintain this by behaving and acting with the highest levels of professionalism.

Clear Communications

We are clear, open-minded, and honest in our communications and frequently offer timely information, insights, and advice. We are not scared of challenging the status quo and addressing issues to avoid confrontation.

Respect

We respect our people for their individuality and diversity. Through their valuable contribution to our team, we recognise and celebrate their success, promote accountability and encourage them to learn from their failures.

Client Service

The provision of value, service, and satisfaction to our clients and stakeholders is always at the forefront of our consultant's minds. As known experts in our field, we deeply respect the trust that our clients place in us.

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OURCompany

 

When it comes to Leadership Search & Selection, Optitude sums up what we believe makes a great leader in any organisation. Attitude + Aptitude + Fortitude = Optitude

This core principle guides us in everything we do. We are a boutique consultancy, working in partnership with our clients to find responsive and timely solutions to their needs. Our offering includes our highly targeted executive search and selection service, plus our boardroom advisory service for clients who need strategic help, guidance, wisdom, and mentoring but don’t always need it on a full-time basis.

The power of collective intelligence

Our boardroom advisory panel is made up of a team of exceptional individuals who come from a diverse and rich background in industry, commerce and the not-for-profit sectors. Between them they bring extraordinary insights, providing your organisation with the clarity and vision it needs to guide it through the most challenging of times.

Optitude 360 is headed by Simon Childs who has over 25 years of experience in sourcing high calibre candidates for some of the UK’s most dynamic boardrooms in the City of London and beyond. Simon has also worked in management consultancy and brings a wealth of understanding about what makes organisations successful and how great teams can achieve extraordinary results.

Optitude’s mission is to help our clients thrive in an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

Call us today if you want to optimise your organisation’s chances of success.

Optitude 360 Applying the science

 

Using a combination of Psychology and Smart Psychometrics techniques, Optitude©360 specialises in acquiring the top-level talent you need to deliver growth, change and performance! Delivering a great customer experience is part of our culture and at the forefront of our success!

At Optitude©360 we combine advanced selection, interviewing and cutting-edge psychometric techniques to identify & source the top 10% of leadership and specialist permanent talent for our corporate client base

Why Optitude©360 works?

We believe that successful leaders combine and balance three key traits: Attitude, Aptitude and Fortitude with optimal performance.

The first is to evaluate the candidate’s Attitude towards their work, role, and leadership style in terms of their underlying values and motivations. Aside from skills, it is important to ensure that the prospective candidate is an excellent cultural / team fit. This means they share the same values as your business and will be comfortable working within your company’s culture.

The second is whether or not the candidate has the Aptitude, skills, experience and “intellectual horsepower” to add significant value to the role and the wider business. This includes hard skills (like specific knowledge or training) and soft skills (like communication or teamwork).

The third is to assess their level of Fortitude in terms of dealing with crisis, adversity, and rapidly evolving corporate environments. As such, it is imperative that senior-level hires can “roll with the punches” and act decisively when challenged in competitive markets.

When all three are aligned and balanced with the optimal performance we call this Optitude©. (At the centre of the Venn diagram) We assess Optitude© using a 360-degree talent-centric and psychometric approach.

Meet Our Leadership Team

Committed to Excellence

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Simon Childs

Managing Director
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James Blackburn

Operations Director

Our Advisory Partners

To help us further develop our role as the leading leadership specialists our Advisory Panel provides high level intellectual and strategic guidance to our team and our clients. Our panel consists of thought leaders and industry specialists, each bringing their unique approach to problem-solving. All members of the Advisory Panel excel in their capacity to deliver excellence.

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Jane Gunn

Corporate Mediator and Conflict Resolution Specialist
Jane Gunn is a former city solicitor, now a full time mediator with 20 years experience of mediating commercial cases. She has mediated hundreds of disputes and is frequently chosen for her extensive mediation experience as well as her ability to handle complex and emotive cases. Accredited in 1996 (CEDR) she is a Mediator Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators a CMC registered mediator and an IMI (The International Mediation Institute) Certified International Mediator.
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Rob Coulthard

leadership Consultant, Trainer and Coach
Rob is an experienced leadership consultant, trainer and coach. He founded Performance Coaching and Leadership having previously served a full (colourful) military career. He fulfilled all his military ambitions having progressed from Boy Soldier to a Commissioned Officer during his 25 years in the British Army. He was introduced to the ‘Judgement Index’ in the USA and has since founded Judgement Index UK Ltd in tandem with his USA business associates. He and his team of specialist consultants and trainers deliver high-performance workshops and seminars within a variety of environments, including Government, Military, Corporate, sports and Performing Arts.
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Thorbjorn Bengston

Psychometric Assessment Specialist
Thorbjorn is the Managing Director of Inpsyght Consultancy, where he utilises psychometric assessments and business psychology; to help clients implement appropriate, accurate and scientific methods of screening and selection. His primary focus is assessing the potential, Risk, and Values of candidates. For example, by measuring Personality, Aptitude and Culture fit, Inpsyght can accurately predict a candidate’s workplace performance, risk tendencies and engagement levels. “As a scientific orientated company, we always strive to keep our knowledge base updated according to new research in the field of Industrial/Organisational Psychology and Psychometrics.”
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Kim Walsh FCIPD

OD, L&D, HR Specialist
Kim is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development with over 25 years of HR experience gained within senior positions at major brands across multiple sectors, including Financial Services (Insurance and Money Transfer), Pharma Retail, FMCG Manufacturing the Oil and Gas Industry. She specialises in HR, OD & L&D Kim’s leverages her wealth of knowledge with thoughtfulness and insight, but she doesn’t pull her punches. Instead, she adopts a practical, common-sense approach and gets the job done, working and collaborating with others to sort things out to a successful conclusion.
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Sally Wood

Finance Strategy Specialist
Sally is a down to earth and positive Consultant Finance Director who loves working with fast-moving, ambitious businesses, particularly start-ups, scale-ups, and businesses undergoing transformational change. Having spent several years as Finance Director at HMV, partnering with the CEO, she is well versed in supporting strategic decision making, developing and implementing cross-functional business change. Leveraging her deep experience, Sally assists clients in building resilience through strategic business planning, improving working capital management, cost-base restructuring, systems integration and stakeholder management.
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Chris Pearse

Executive Leadership Coach
Chris Pearse has spent nearly 20 years working with CEOs, directors and senior managers from every sector, including FTSE100s, government, academia, SMEs and non-profits. he delivers leadership development programmes and coaching to accelerate leaders’ evolution through self-awareness and self-leadership. Chris has set up and run tech businesses in the UK and overseas, originally qualifying as a chartered engineer.