Clients
Agile search: It's about hard work, intuition, experience and results.
For us, it’s personal
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Our team
Tucker Stone boasts a team of highly experienced, credible, and deeply-networked consultants, focused on delivering an unrivalled service to our clients.
Each of our consultants feels a keen sense of pride and desire to be the best in the marketplace but we recognise, and celebrate, that we are strongest as a team. We share networks, best-practice and thought leadership with one another, to ensure our clients benefit from our constant collaboration, and continued learning.
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our network
Our connections are forged within the dynamic Global HR Leadership community, but our daily conversations extend to founders, CEOs, investors & board members grappling with the critical challenge that leaders face to attract, engage, develop & retain the only real differentiator in the modern business world – people. Partnering with our team will ensure you hire the CHRO or CPO, whose mission it is to embed a culture which will enable your business to thrive.
Our success is hinged upon keeping pace with innovation and our uncompromising search for the highest quality and diversity of talent for your business.
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Pushing boundaries
We understand the importance of relevant industry experience but we also appreciate the synergies between certain sectors. We challenge our clients to employ HR leadership from outside of their immediate industry and, in certain cases, from outside a traditional HR background. No two of our search assignments are the same and nor is the talent pool we create for each project.
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Where capability meets culture
Our job is to get the measure of a company culture, a leadership team dynamic, the business strategy, purpose & values, and, ultimately, the people strategy which winds its way into all of these elements. We research, we identify, we meet & interview potential candidates to ascertain their relevance & experience for each of our searches.
The art of search is to use our intuition, honed over 15+ years, to know who will thrive and succeed with whom, who will enrich a leadership team, challenge the status quo, and make dynamic & sustainable change.
Our clients
What we offer
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executive search
Our unrivalled network of global HR leaders, our team of expert search consultants, and our digital toolkit ensures that we offer our clients the best in agile search.
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interim
Access to our ever-expanding community of HR Interim Leaders & Change Agents, who provide an invaluable service at times of ambiguity or transformation, with maximum impact, minimum fuss.
Client testimonials
Private Equity investment invariably means huge change for organisations – financially, structurally and culturally. Investment brings huge opportunity but also new pressures & expectations on the leadership team. Tucker Stone understands the need for an HR Leader to support, challenge and guide the CEO & their top team, as they navigate their way through the change journey. The search was thorough, professional, efficient and successful.
Chris Rogers, Managing Director of Costa Coffee at Whitbread PLC (2012 - 2016)
With responsibility for People and Organisation Development in the Private Equity space, it is crucial that I remain up to date with the HR market. Tucker Stone provide access to excellent HR talent and invaluable advice in support of HR leadership resourcing. Whilst Tucker Stone have had considerable success in supporting the build of one of our high quality HR teams, it is their ability to understand the commercial and strategic goals of the business that truly makes them a partner. Tucker Stone are a fantastic example of a boutique Search firm whose value is so much more than the end product.
Sue White, People Organisation & Development - PE Sector
Recruitment’s never easy and rarely runs as smoothly as you’d like it to, so I always feel it is crucial to work with a Search partner who can advise, adapt and persevere throughout the process. Tucker Stone truly understands HR talent and what fits both culturally and technically. They are happy to challenge preconceptions and their Consultative approach ensures a strong working partnership and ultimately a successful outcome.
Melanie Tansey, HR Director - ITN
Tucker Stone took a challenging brief for a VP, People and took time to deeply understand our business during a period of explosive growth and identified candidates who were a great match for our complex requirements. Their unique style combining a consultative approach with deep functional experience brings great results.
Chief Operations Officer, Fast growth FoodTech Business
Tucker Stone are an excellent recruitment partner – responsive and results focused. I’d always recommend them to anyone looking to find the best HR talent.
HR Director, e-commerce business
Tucker Stone were charged with identifying high calibre interim HR directors. They quickly understood the brief and provided a high quality short-list on two different occasions from which, each time, I was able to make a successful hire.
HR Director, Manufacturing Business
It is always a pleasure to work with Tucker Stone. They are professional, personable and deliver great results. They take time to understand their clients and offers a highly personal service, tailored to the needs of the customer. I have no hesitation in recommending Tucker Stone.
People Director, Media Company
I have worked with Tucker Stone a few times and I have found that they have taken the time to fully understand the organisation, the role and key attributes of the required candidates. Tucker Stone rose to the challenge to find and place an HR Director within 3 weeks – we were able to make an offer within the timeline to an excellent candidate. Tucker Stone are hugely personable and professional and I would not hesitate to work with Tucker Stone again.
HR Director, FMCG
Tucker Stone have provided excellent candidates to us over many years and uses their extensive knowledge of the market to source a wide range of high-quality candidates. They are also a strong business partner and adviser to us as the client. I would strongly recommend their services.
Angela Williams, Group HR Director – British Airways
Tucker Stone are a highly capable search provider whose broad industry knowledge and attention to detail allow them to provide expert insight into what will work in a fast pace and highly complex working environment. Their perceptive assessment of company needs has allowed me to work proactively to fill immediate needs and to consider future requirements on a talent pipeline.
Peter Farr, People Director UK & EMEA – Deliveroo
Tucker Stone are a great boutique provider - they are everything you need from a consultancy, discreet, results focused, good value and speedy. When other consultants spend time sending you dross, Tucker Stone listen and send you exactly what you need.
James Ryding, Talent Acquisition Senior Director - PepsiCo
Whilst Tucker Stone are excellent Search practitioners, it is their understanding of the HR function that sets them apart from other suppliers. This expertise ensures the candidates they presented were innovative, disruptive and leaders in their field. I firmly believe they represent the best the HR community has to offer and would thoroughly recommend their services.
Kim Atherton , CPO - OVO Energy
Tucker Stone have had a transformative effect on our business. We no longer wring our hands wondering where our next consultant is coming from. We know Tucker Stone will find them, and those who have joined us over the last few years are thriving with us. Our relationship with Tucker Stone is a true collaboration and will be key part of our continued success.
Anita Harris, Managing Partner - Sheppard Moscow
Aspermont is in high growth phase and developing a fully-fledged, long term People Strategy sits at the top of our Company’s strategic agenda. Tucker Stone ably guided us through a highly efficient search process for our newly created Group People Director (GPD). They intuitively understood the fit for our business, and their expertise resulted in an exciting hire for us.
Alex Kent, MD - Aspermont
What makes Tucker Stone different? They truly understand our organisation and our culture and have a talent for finding talent in unlikely places. Combined, that makes for a powerful ability to find candidates that are not always the obvious choice, but are always top quality. I’ve learned that when they say “you should meet this person”, I never argue. In a nutshell, they always deliver. And perhaps most importantly, I trust them.
Shaun Laubscher, Group Head of Talent - Spirax-Sarco
Tucker Stone have completed a number of assignments for me in developing the HR function at Spirax Sarco. I have always had positive candidate feedback which is very important as any search partner is speaking on your behalf so the overall experience, not just the outcome, is important to me. Tucker Stone have a good eye for broader cultural fit, personal values and identifying HR professionals with the insight and intellect to grow with our business.
Jim Devine, Group HR Director - Spirax-Sarco Engineering
I’ve worked with Tucker Stone as both a client and candidate and there is a simple reason for that. As a candidate, they were one of very few recruiters who truly cared about the candidate experience, were hugely responsive and inspired trust and confidence. That’s why they were a go to person for me in finding a Head of Talent and Development for my own team. Their knowledge of the HR function goes without saying and what I really valued was their understanding of my goals, the speed of delivery, the customer focus, the diversity of thought throughout the search process, the open and honest discussions that we were able to have and of course, the end result - a great hire for my team.
Andrea Sutherill, HR Director, People & Wellbeing - BRE
Tucker Stone came highly recommended as a company that understands progressive talent in the People space. They were tasked with sourcing MOO a best in class Head of People & Culture. Expectations are always high at MOO and compromises are rarely made. Finding the combination of skills and capability with the right cultural fit can be extremely difficult. We are delighted with the service and would highly recommend Tucker Stone to any company that wants to break the mould with a different type of HR leader.
Kyle Polischuk , VP HR - MOO.com
I have been working with Tucker Stone for many years and they have truly outdone themselves in their most recent search for our Chief People Officer. The challenge I set for Tucker Stone was immense – urgency, lockdown, gold-dust candidates and the Christmas period. However, they exceeded all expectations; delivering a shortlist of candidates who met the brief and shepherding us all through the process, ensuring a successful outcome. The CEO is delighted with his new HR leader. Thank you to the whole Tucker Stone team for delivering such an exceptional piece of work. This just reinforces to me the importance of long-lasting partnerships with recruitment partners who operate with integrity.
Jessica Oppenheimer , Former CPO – Tungsten