Global placements offer unique challenges and require specialized understanding to complete. Besides issues of language and location, successful negotiations require familiarity with local and international taxation, work-permits, domestic relocation and potential family matters, cultural sensitivities, and ingrained corporate biases. We welcome the challenges posed by the requirements of these complex searches and this global expertise drives our business and distinguishes our abilities.

The WTI Advantage

As a boutique executive search firm, we offer personalized service tailored to our clients' needs. By focusing on certain industries we have built extensive long-term relationships with key players and can respond quickly to situations which require fast solutions. Our clients trust us to keep abreast of relevant developments impacting their competitive environment, and our proven discretion offer unique advantages to client firms and top candidates. For clients in global businesses, we offer a multi-lingual staff and deep experience with the logistics of international searches and cross-national executive placements, as well as strategic knowledge-based guidance in planning for organizational change, leadership development, and compensation issues.

Strategic Guidance

WTI offers our corporate clients strategic knowledge-based guidance in planning for organizational change, leadership development, sales & business development, and compensation issues. Our detailed understanding of emerging developments at leading companies gives us an edge that helps us to better service our clients.

Retained Executive Searches

For over 30 years, leading and emerging corporations have retained our services in locating executives and senior staff and quickly delivering fully-developed candidates to fill top positions. Our focused expertise in key sectors, as well as our extensive network of executive contacts and insight help us support our clients in their management structure. Today, we are the go-to firm for complex top-level searches that require global understanding.

Industry Research

With a full-time research department, we consistently stay on top of structural changes in the industries we serve, maintaining an understanding of organization structure at key companies and organizational developments. In our targeted universe, we track who is where, what changes are on the horizon, and how it impacts our clients and strategic opportunities. Much of our research is conducted through long-term personal relationships and trusted discretion that allows us to pick up the phone and confirm developments before they are announced.

Candidate Database

Our proprietary database of candidates spans over 30 years of executive placements. At least 4 times a year, we aim to communicate with each candidate in our network to update relevant information. These personal relationships are invaluable to our understanding of emerging developments across the industries we specialize in. All our market research and candidate information is private, confidential, and never sold. We value this research as a significant advantage in fulfilling complex demanding executive searches, and supporting our client companies in attracting and retaining key employees.