Executive Leadership on Demand
A partner who has already held your role, in your market, takes the chair within fourteen days and carries it until your permanent hire walks in.
25 partners · 13 markets · Headquarters in Singapore
It is 19:40 on a Tuesday and your country manager has just resigned.
He is owed three months. He will not work them.
You are eleven time zones away and the first thing you feel is not panic. It is arithmetic.
The search will take five months, and it should, because you are hiring for the next ten years.
Add the notice, the visa, the relocation. Call it seven.
For seven months the plant still runs, the board pack still gets written, and the customers notice nothing at all.
That is the part that costs you.
The arithmetic nobody budgets for
A leadership gap does not arrive as a crisis.
It arrives as a decision nobody was senior enough to take.
An escalation nobody carried to headquarters.
A supplier who renegotiated because he could tell.
The best two people on the local team, quietly updating their profiles.
None of it appears in a report for two quarters. Then all of it appears at once, in a number, and by then it is a turnaround.
The seat was never the problem. The seven months were.
Seven months of a business deciding nothing is not a gap. It is a turnaround you have not been told about yet.
What we are
We are not a search firm, and we are not consultants.
A search firm finds you the right person in five months. A consultant writes you an assessment in five weeks.
Neither of them holds the seat.
Asia-Connect is twenty five people who have each already held it.
The P&L in Shanghai. The plant in Pune. The joint venture in Ho Chi Minh City. The regional office in Singapore.
We know what headquarters expects on a Monday morning, and why the local team heard something different.
One of us takes your chair within two weeks and carries it until your permanent hire walks in.
How it works
The role, the country, the date it emptied.
Within seventy two hours you meet the one or two partners who have held that job in that market.
Not a database.
Not twenty CVs.
If none of us has held it, we tell you that instead.
Not advising.
In the role.
The mandate, the signature authority and the reporting line the permanent holder had.
A one page scope of what must be decided, and by when.
No backlog, no frozen decisions, no team that has learned to stop asking.
The interim partner overlaps four weeks past the start date.
He leaves a written log of every decision taken in your name.
What you can check before you call
Singapore, India, China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE.
Patrick Laredo
Chairman
Asia-Connect Executive Partners
I have spent thirty years on your side of this call.
Every time a seat emptied a long way from head office, the same instinct arrived with it: wait, and get the permanent choice right.
It is the correct instinct and it is the expensive one, because nothing waits with you.
I built Asia-Connect so that the right hire and a business that keeps deciding stop being a choice.
If a partner we put in your chair is not the person we described, call me, and I will take him out of it myself.
What we refuse
A firm that takes every brief is telling you nothing about the ones it should take. These are ours, in writing, before you spend an hour on a call.
You want a diagnostic.
We do not write assessments of your business.
We take the job and we are accountable for it.
If a report is what you need, a consultancy will serve you better and cost you less.
You want the cheapest hands available.
An interim partner costs roughly what the empty seat costs.
If the budget is a fraction of the salary, the person you get will be a fraction of the executive, and you already know that.
The role sits below C-suite or country manager.
Below that line a good recruiter beats us on speed and on price.
We would be selling you seniority you do not need.
The gap is outside our thirteen markets.
We will say so on the first call.
Thirteen countries is the whole of what we can honestly claim, and a partner who has never worked in your market is worth no more to you than a stranger.
One question
Tell us the role and the market.
If one of our partners has held that job there, you meet him this week.
If none of us has, you will hear that instead, on the same call.
You will hear from the partner who has held that seat, or from us telling you that none of us has, within seventy two hours. Nothing else will be sent to you.
An executive looking for a mission rather than a company looking for one? Write to [email protected].
