Strengthen Your Board with the Right Non-Executive Director

We act fast. You will get a shortlist of candidates in just 2-4 weeks

We can fill a NED or Chair position, in any sector, anywhere in the world!

Our fees are success oriented

Recruiting Exceptional NED’s & Chair For Our Clients

Get the Best ROI For Your Non-Executive Director or Chair Hire

At Norrie Johnston Recruitment (NJR), we know that appointing a quality Non-Executive Director (NED) or Chair is one of the most valuable decisions a business can make – with phenomenal ROI potential! But engaging the right people is key: their expertise, insight and networks are invaluable to leaders of today and tomorrow.

The Non-Executive Directors that we’ve found for companies:

Are commercially astute, adept at ‘thinking outside the box’, with excellent financial acumen, gravitas and credibility
Have significant leadership experience and demonstrable career success
Are ready to challenge – yet not cross – the executive line
Have genuine emotional intelligence – knowing how to get the best from people yet also unafraid to hold the Board to account when necessary
Often co-invest

At NJR, we have a proven track record of

Attracting NED talent: we have a powerful NED network and are adept at identifying those potential NED’s who will enhance your business and your Board
Supplying perfectly matched short-lists within weeks, reflecting diversity and other key requirements
Having real-world, personal experience as Non-Executive Directors or Trustees – we’ve seen both sides and we understand the challenges of hiring NED’s.

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Our NED & Chair Success Stories

John Dembitz, Non-Executive Chair, HLBBshaw

“I have had the pleasure of being ‘hunted’ by Daryl Stickland for a Non-Executive Chair’s role. Over the past 35 years I have been hunted on numerous occasions, and have also mandated search consultants on numerous occasions. Daryl has excelled! He is thorough, not only in understanding and explaining his brief, not only in ensuring he has depth of understanding of candidates, but in exploring and scratching beneath the surface to establish the degree of FIT there may be between client and candidate. That all so easily elusive notion of ‘chemistry’, he digs for in considerable depth.”

John Jackson, Portfolio Non-Executive Director

“As a chair of Nominations Committees, I have been required to help recruit both senior executive and non-executive directors over the last 15 years. During that period, I have realised that whilst the large and well-known UK recruitment companies are a safe bet more often than not the success of a task to recruit is down to the enthusiasm, personality, ingenuity and determination of the recruiter leading the assignment. In that role Daryl Stickland has in many of my searches proved to be the right choice, quickly understanding what I/my company is looking for as against what may currently be available and then going out and finding candidates who fit the bill and who aren’t going to be a waste of my time when I meet them.”

Neal Mernock, CEO and Non-Executive Director, Encase

“Daryl recently led a search process for a good business which needed the input of a Non-Exec Director, to act as a catalyst to help develop and deliver a new Strategic Growth Plan. As a result of his deeper understanding of me and my experience, and careful management of my interests, he was able to put me forward as an alternative type of candidate, and as a result I was appointed with immediate effect. I believe his very organised and intelligent approach has enabled both client and candidate to feel they’ve found the right partners for each other.”

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Meet Our Team of NED & Chair Search Experts

Daryl Stickland, Director

Daryl established and led his first Non-Executive Practice in 2010 and has supported businesses to engage exceptional Non-Executives ever since. An advocate of the value of Non-Executives to companies, their leadership and investors as well as more broadly to UK Plc. Daryl has attended Ft NED Club courses, been a Trustee and delivered Non-Executive course content for the Institute of Directors. Daryl’s appointments have helped create value for company owners and shareholders, raise investment and achieve exits, as well as bringing good governance.
He has been mandated for the appointment of NED & Chair roles by a broad mix of clients from privately owned SMEs such as Encase and HLBBshaw to the portfolio companies of Private Equity & Venture Capital firms including BGF, Foresight and Octopus Ventures.

Get in touch with Daryl via email: Daryl.Stickland@njr.uk.com

Graham Oates, Director

Graham is a qualified public sector accountant and an ex-Managing Partner and UK Board member of KPMG Consulting. Whilst with KPMG Graham carried out many roles including Global Head of IT Consulting and Managing Partner for Consulting Solutions and New Businesses.
Graham was NED and Chair of the Insolvency Service for 6 years and was Executive Chair of the UK leader in rail ticketing software owned by a consortium of Train Operating Companies. Graham was also a Trustee and Treasurer for a major regional social care charity in East Anglia, for 14 years.

Get in touch with Graham via email: Graham.Oates@njr.uk.com

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