Clients come to us because of our deep understanding and experience of the motivations and drivers of the exceptionally talented. We take great care to work with both clients and candidates to ensure that a candidate’s full career potential is met. Often this means persuading people with hugely successful careers to change career direction and perhaps join another firm. We have many examples of where this has proved to be a great success.

I have known and admired LEK for at least 20 years so I wouldn’t have called them a newcomer, they are a well established strategy boutique. Nor would I say they are only just beginning to compete with McKinsey et al – I think they always have.