We identify future leaders to excel in competitive, disruptive markets
LWW Talent Search is a boutique talent search and advisory consultancy
About LWW Talent Search
We believe that human capital remains the most valued resource in any organisation.
Our mission is to present multi skilled candidates who excel in competitive, disruptive markets – key success factors in recruiting the future leaders to transform businesses and sustain performance.
Our values represent the way we work, respectful of clients and candidates, honest and confidential, exhibiting integrity and trust, embracing diversity in our endeavours – as a principled partner.
Lesley Weymouth-Wilson, our Managing Director, will offer a personal service to our clients, from upfront engagement to placement, with a team of expert practitioners supporting her, on request, with best practice subject matter expertise and research.
As partners, we offer more – upfront, and informed engagement on talent pools and role specifications, accessing in-house practitioner expertise to deliver on complex assignments, offering clients independent advisory services.
We are passionate in our work, employing our trusted local and global networks to present exceptional candidates in all our placements, from specialist roles, ‘C’ suite executives, through to managing directors, board and committee members and government agencies appointments.
We look forward to connecting Let’s catch up over a coffee!
Why Us
Performance
As industry experts, we confirm and present multi skilled, agile candidates who can deliver an immediate impact to drive performance and sustain business outcomes.
Governance
We embrace open communication, robust confidentiality and privacy protocols, with effective compliance practices to maintain standards that exceed client expectations.
Expertise
As industry experts we are passionate in our work, collaborating together to offer mentoring skills, end to end recruitment solutions, market intelligence, and advisory services.
Respect
We do the right thing, exhibiting integrity and trust, embracing diversity, being honest and confidential, as a principled partner to both our clients and our candidates alike.
Partnership
We partner with our clients, upholding our mutual brands and values, personally engaging with candidates, responding to their interests, offering mentoring and insights into market conditions
Solution
We customise our approach to each assignment, well informed on current market conditions and opportunities, to detail each client’s individual profile and source exceptional candidates outside the recognised talent pool.
We customise our approach to each assignment, well informed on current market conditions and opportunities, to detail each client’s individual profile and source exceptional candidates outside the recognised talent pool.
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Our Team
Our team are personally invested in all aspects of an assignment whether that is an executive assessment, search assignment, market intelligence, or an advisory service.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Lesley Weymouth -Wilson
Lesley has developed her professional career within HR, holding Senior Management positions for large international recruitment companies and international executive search and boutique agencies. She has extensive Talent Acquisition and Search experience sourcing financial and technical candidates for major companies, government, and small and medium enterprises.
Lesley brings an informed insight and understanding of client organisational structures, business models, objectives and cultures, to identify and present candidates with the specialist and technical skillsets sought by clients.
She has delivered HR recruitment solutions and strategies in talent acquisition, retention and best practises. Managed performance objectives for individuals and organisations in business planning. Developed KPI’s for all levels, majority being in business development and sales. Ensured performance by providing coaching, mentoring and guidance to achieve organisational and individual objectives and targets. Managed Preferred Supplier Agreements, and written compliance and governance manuals.
Lesley’s professionalism and engagement are her hallmark, investing her expertise to source future leaders in response to the challenges of disruptive, digital markets, recognising that talent is the differentiator in transforming businesses and performance across organisations.
EXPERT PRACTITIONERS
Peter Hanlon
Peter Hanlon is a principled innovative corporate professional, with a global track record of achievement in establishing new enterprise business and organisational structures. His extensive experience and engagement with Boards includes; Risk Directorships at European banks and as Treasurer of the Rotary Club of Melbourne and member of the Risk Committee, and presenting to and briefing Boards, including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and National Australia Bank.
Peter plays key roles in setting enterprise agendas, goals and policies within his Board and Committee appointments, developing plans and budgets for approval, providing leadership and executing strategies, with a principled, creative, encompassing mindset and approach, to ensure timely and effective performance outcomes.
His expertise in risk management, introducing resilient governance, compliance and oversight systems, embedding integrity values and standards, recruiting talent and upskilling and mentoring teams, enables organisational change and the delivery of enterprise goals.
Peter has a wide- ranging external presence, speaking at conferences and workshops, authoring and contributing to the media, counselling on talent sourcing and recruitment, board and committee and selective advisory services.
EXPERT PRACTITIONERS
Tim Holland
Tim has a Bachelor of Law degree from ANU and a B.A.(Hons)History, and Dip Ed from the University of Melbourne. He has held senior management roles in areas of law enforcement and national security, working for the Australian Government, and in enforcing Australian Competition and Consumer Legislation against anti –competitive behaviours, with a secondment to ASIC.
EXPERT PRACTITIONERS
Jeff Oughton
Jeff has an Honours degree in Economics from the University of Newcastle and a MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. He has held senior roles working for the Reserve Bank of Australia, including within their New York Agency, and within National Australia Bank where he was Deputy Chief Group Economist, including a secondment as Chief Executive of the Australian Bankers’ Association.
Our Services
LWW Talent Search’s core focus is to present and connect exceptional talent within financial services, corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors.
We invest to build long term relationships with clients and candidates, approaching our work to provide a fulfilled client experience.
Expertise and personalised service is essential to providing successful outcomes
TALENT SEARCH
We believe that top talent must be sought out in the market; our preferred approach is a custom talent search to discover and reach candidates not currently seeking new roles, broadening the scope of the potential talent pool.
We consult to understand the organisations needs and culture from the onset, combining our recruitment and in-house practitioners’ expertise to confirm the role specifications and profile, and apply our search technology, networks and referrals to present exceptional credentialed candidates.
INTERIM MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Interim management is an immediate solution when undertaking a project or challenge with headcount restrictions or a need to embed a specialist swiftly into an existing organisational structure. We present and place experienced and specialist resources to lead and transform businesses or restore stability.
ADVERTISING & TALENT SEARCH
We access social media and digital marketing to complement our internal network and search, identifying and affirming the credentials and alignment of candidates with our clients’ culture and values and to remain upfront with innovation and thought leadership.
ADVISORY SERVICES & MARKET INTELLIGENCE
Our in-house markets expertise, appreciating the competitive landscape, allows us to undertake benchmarking exercises across a spectrum of corporate activities.
We have advised Superfunds, Banks, Mutuals, Advocacy bodies and Government across a spectrum of enterprise governance, strategy, performance and transformation.
Our technical skills complement or enhance your existing capabilities, having led multi-million $ IT initiatives, including global pricing and budgetary reporting systems and a global liquidity management reporting system and regulatory risk capital compliance systems.
We are available to introduce/ review programs, induct presentations and interpersonal and board engagement and presentation skills.
MENTORING
As mentors, we are well positioned to assist and coach candidates, businesses or teams in broadening their horizons, having managed teams up to 100, lectured at universities, presented to conferences.
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities:
INTEGRITY, INTELLIGENCE AND ENERGY. And if you don’t get the first, the others will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire someone without Integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
Our Expertise
Our research-intensive procedures are ingrained in us, and as experienced practitioners, we ensure that our clients always have access to the most current market intelligence.
We address the needs of our clients in the following businesses:
Advocacy Bodies
Banking: Financial Advisers
Government
Health Insurance
Insurers Member-owned Institutions
Non-Bank Lenders
Not For Profit
Superannuation Funds
Subject Matter Experts
- Talent Search Practises, Recruitment Models, Role profiling and Career Planning
- Micro- Economic Forecasting and Modelling
- Capital Financing
- Funding & Liquidity
- Business Model and Balance Sheet Management
- Market Contestability and Competition
- Performance & Reward structures
- Internal Transfer Pricing
- Customer/Product Profitability
- Regulatory Engagement and Advocacy
Risk : Reward Policy : Performance : Compliance : Management : Oversight
Innovation : Change Management : Technology : Project Control : Digital
Accounting : Budgeting : Modelling : Planning : Reporting : Resources : Systems : Procedures
Formulation : Settings : Criteria
Let’s catch up over a coffee!
Please connect and we’ll be in touch.
