2025 marks our 20th anniversary. Two decades of delivering exceptional levels of service and positive outcomes for our valued clients
Core to our success is the development of processes, methods and systems that deliver repeatability; success by design, not chance.
We are the partner of choice to many of the World’s greatest engineering led companies
Whether client or candidate, we treat everyone with respect. We challenge where necessary and offer counsel when appropriate.
As industry specialists with 20+ years’ experience in talent mapping, we can readily access the highest performing individuals at a variety of career levels across our specialist markets
Our clients rely on us to deliver sound advice. We value the trust, integrity and openness on which those relationships rely.
Talisman Executive is a specialist research-based executive search firm operating in a complementary selection of industry verticals.
We deliver the people who enable our clients to drive business performance and achieve real competitive advantage. Ultimately we are judged on the success of the people we place.
Whether you are looking to strengthen your executive management team or require specialist knowledge and skills Talisman Executive can help you to achieve competitive advantage in the UK, throughout Europe and across the globe.
Through detailed research and rigorous pre-selection we identify, attract and deliver best fit for your organisation – first time, every time.
“Over the past 20 years, we have developed our business to meet and anticipate the ever changing needs of everyone we work with. Our extensive investment in our people, our technology and our approach, allows us to say, without being boastful or arrogant, that we truly offer you the best service and value in our chosen sectors.
We’re not, though, resting on our laurels. As well as continuously upgrading and adding to our technology, we’re always looking to improve the quality of our work, and to extend the knowledge we offer you.”
Richard Taylor-Edwards – Managing Director
We’ve been building exceptional and diverse talent networks for 30+ years across the specialist markets we serve. Our candidate relationships are built on mutual respect and long earned trust. When we call or message, people tend to respond and listen.
We are expert researchers and talent analysts. We operate with integrity and agility to build a deep understanding of each candidate’s abilities, motivations and fit to your culture; finding the right hire, first time, every time.
We are insanely curious and we really get to know how our candidates tick, way beyond their core experience, skills and knowledge. Each shortlist is packed with people who can do it, really want it and are ready to work to get it.
Whether through organic growth or acquisition our clients needs are always changing. We work in partnership to understand and anticipate their future talent needs, often researching and mapping new and emerging segments ahead of time.
It is the depth of knowledge of our core markets that set us apart from other executive search organisations. As experts in executive resourcing for the Automation, Fluid & Process Control and Transport sectors we are able to deliver greater insight to our clients and support them to maximise their opportunity to attract people of absolute best fit.
We recognise that the sectors we serve are undergoing unprecedented customer, market and technological change. These changes are redefining routes to market and customer relationships. Companies need to be more adaptable than ever. We are well positioned to offer an international and informed perspective with access to leadership and specialist talent that transcends the traditional boundaries of the sectors we serve.
We place trust, integrity and openness at the heart of everything we do. It is this coupled with our careful, professional and proven approach that enables us to develop successful long term relationships with our candidates and clients. By engaging with Talisman Executive you gain access to the extensive network of enduring relationships we have built over more than two decades.
Notwithstanding our deep understanding of our core markets we serve, we are also constantly building connections into the candidate pools that will become increasingly important to the success of our many technology driven clients over the coming years
Repeatability is the key to success. Through a combination of technology, experience and methodology we have built a way of consistently delivering results that removes many of the risks associated with executive resourcing. Our clients readily invest the time and resources in the relationship because they know they can rely on us to deliver the right fit, first time, every time.
We identify and place leaders and specialists with the commercial, technical, operational and financial know-how to create competitive advantage within manufacturing and engineering-led organisations.
In an era of transformational change, we have the knowledge, dedication and expertise to identify and deliver against the toughest of recruiting briefs across the full spectrum of the supply chains in our dedicated market sectors.
Our industrial and process automation clients are creating breakthrough solutions to complex engineering problems every day and great people are at the heart of everything they do.
They need people who are curious, ambitious and who have a growth mindset – people who will deliver customer solutions today and also drive the development of new concepts, designs and products for tomorrow.
Talisman Executive has been a proud partner to the the European Automotive, Aerospace and Rail industries for many years.
With a focus on maximized operational efficiency and improved sustainability, our clients sit at the centre of complex and challenging supply chains. Following a recent history of unprecedented acquisition and consolidation activity coupled with an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, many of our clients are experiencing rapid organisational change. Talisman Executive has a clearly defined role to play in identifying and attracting the leaders and specialists that can help these often complex organisations to achieve their goals.
