Welcome to Frisch.
Leadership remains the single greatest driver of business performance, value creation and organisational legacy.
Frisch helps organisations redefine leadership for what’s next, staying ahead of shifting expectations, new dynamics and evolving business realities.
We translate strategic intent, cultural reality and market context into leadership capability, helping boards and CEOs keep leadership current, connected and ready to turn change into advantage.
Our
Proposition.
Building capability that grows with ambition, culture and change.
We help organisations make leadership a living capability, connecting strategy, context and culture to create lasting value and advantage.
Recognising the shift in leadership towards a collective and conceptual capability, we partner with organisations to clarify their leadership reality, align it with ambition and build capability that endures.
What began as executive search has evolved into an embedded leadership partnership.
We understand each client’s unique Context + Culture and integrate search, assessment, onboarding and coaching to ensure every leadership appointment creates value today and builds capability for what’s next.
From Function
To Value.
The New Domains of Leadership.
We’ve moved beyond traditional functional silos to focus on where leadership truly drives performance, resilience, and growth.
Together, four domains connect leadership to the outcomes that matter most:
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Value Creation & Innovation: Align leaders around the customer and growth agenda.
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Go-to-Market Excellence: Strengthen leadership across sales, marketing, and ecosystem partnerships.
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Financial & Operational Agility: Build decision speed and cross-functional accountability.
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People & Culture Leadership: Embed purpose, inclusion, and succession resilience.
The
Outcome.
Leadership becomes a renewable source of advantage, evolving with ambition, culture and market dynamics.
- Clarity in succession: pipelines never left to chance
- Confidence in appointments: sharper decisions, faster integration
- Consistency in quality: aligned with strategy and culture
- Sustained advantage: leadership that lasts
Our
Story.
From Executive Search to Embedded Leadership Partner.
Frisch began over twenty-five years ago with a clear focus: helping some of the world’s most iconic consumer brands find the leaders who could drive growth and transformation.
From the start, our difference was never just a transactional process, but a deep partnership understanding our clients’ culture, business strategy, ambitions and the markets they compete in.
That commitment built enduring relationships and remarkable results: across more than 600 leadership appointments, not one failed within the warranty period, and many leaders stayed for a decade or more.
We saw a clear pattern behind every successful appointment: a powerful alignment between ambition, context, and culture. We understood that leadership isn’t universal; it must reflect the unique dynamics and identity of each organisation.
So we began to define each client’s leadership reality, the strategic, organisational, and cultural factors that shape performance, and made it the centre of our work. What emerged was our Context + Culture model and a new way of partnering.
Search became one element of a broader capability: integrating assessment, onboarding, and coaching to ensure that every appointment strengthens the whole leadership equilibrium, the balance between individual talent, collective capability and organisational context. We also built tools and analytics to capture cultural signals, assess potential, and track leadership quality across pipelines.
Today, Frisch operates as an embedded leadership partner, working alongside boards and CEOs to make leadership a renewable source of advantage. Our partnerships span strategy, structure, and succession, ensuring leadership remains aligned with ambition and ready for what’s next.
Our promise remains simple: your leadership appointments will be your greatest competitive advantage, and the hallmark of your legacy.
Carola Frisch
Founder & Co-Client Lead
David Nobbs
CEO & Co-Client Lead