Growth starts below the surface - because the right leader changes everything.

Mycelium Search is a boutique search partner for organisations navigating change, transformation and growth.

We help organisations appoint senior leaders by focusing on alignment, not just capability.

Leadership success is not only about finding the right person. It is about placing that person into the right conditions, at the right moment, with the right expectations. When alignment is present, performance strengthens, change accelerates and growth becomes sustainable.

Why Mycelium?

Most traditional executive search firms are built around fixed job titles or sectors.

Organisations do not operate in straight lines. Strategies evolve. Markets shift. Teams change shape under pressure. Leadership success is shaped as much by context as by capability.

Mycelium Search was built to work in reality.

What matters is whether a leader can succeed in the environment they are entering, with its culture, pace, constraints and ambitions.

Mycelium exists to connect leaders to those environments with clarity and intent. We focus on aligning capability with culture, expectations and direction, so leaders can perform, adapt and create lasting impact.

When alignment is right, leadership impact compounds.

Teams strengthen, change accelerates and momentum builds.

Mycelium operates as the connective network beneath the surface, designed to link people to the environments where they can do their best work, authentically and at pace.

Experience

We get it. Because we have been there.

Mycelium Search is built on having completed the full talent lifecycle, agency, search and in house, across complex, global organisations.

We have hired from the outside, built capability from within, and sat alongside leadership teams accountable for outcomes. We have worked through moments of build, scale, transformation and reset, from early growth through to maturity, and through the hard decisions that come with change.

That experience matters.

It means we understand the pressure, the trade-offs and the reality of senior hiring when the business is moving fast, priorities are shifting and the cost of getting it wrong is high. We have been there when roles are newly created, when remits change mid-search, when expectations are not aligned, and when a perfect CV is not what the organisation actually needs.

Not many search firms can say that, because not many have lived the full cycle from all sides.

We have seen first-hand why linear, role-first search breaks down in these environments. Narrow functional thinking and static networks do not reflect how leadership capability actually shows up today.

The skills organisations need now do not live neatly in one function, one sector or one obvious peer group. That is why we hire across the full spectrum of leadership roles and functions. Not to be broad for the sake of it, but because this is how you discover what people truly bring, how they think, adapt, connect and perform when context shifts.

This is how we reduce hiring risk without slowing momentum.

We connect leaders to the environments where they are most effective, and organisations to leadership that strengthens the whole system, not just the role on paper.

Who We Work With

We work with organisations where leadership impact truly matters.

We typically partner with brand-led businesses, founder-led organisations and PE-backed environments during moments of transformation, turnaround, scale-up or leadership transition.

Our work most often involves hiring Chief Executives and General Managers, functional C-suite leaders, Vice Presidents, Directors and Head-of leaders, working closely with founders, CEOs, Chairs, investors and senior leadership teams.

We partner best with organisations that value clarity, partnership and intentional outcomes.

What We Do

We work with organisations at senior hiring moments that define what happens next.

Some roles need clarity before anything else.

Some need pace and precision.

Most need both.

That is why our work is structured around a small number of deliberately designed offerings, each with clear ownership from start to finish.

Full Search

End-to-end search for critical, high-stakes hires.

Retained Leadership Search is our most comprehensive search offering, designed for organisations where a leadership hire is business-critical.

This is a fully owned, end-to-end engagement from deep immersion and search strategy through to offer management, onboarding, and post hire aftercare. Every stage is aligned to outcomes, not activity.

Deconstructed Search

Executive Search, Reimagined for Modern Businesses.

Not every hire needs a full retained search. Some do. Others need greater agility.

Mycelium breaks the mould.

We have deconstructed executive search into modular components — giving you access to the parts that matter most: strategy, structure, and sourcing.

Two services. One goal: better hiring outcomes.

Our Experience

Partnership not Providers

Every engagement starts with a conversation.

No obligation.

No hard sell.

Just a clear discussion about what you need and whether we are the right partner.

If you are navigating a senior hire and want a search partner who understands how leadership decisions actually land inside organisations, we would be happy to talk.

Let’s start the conversation.