Board Search, Executive Search and Leadership Succession

Johnson Partners is the leading board advisory and executive search firm across Australia & New Zealand.

Johnson Partners Executive Search

We unite eminent organisations with elite professionals across the globe, enabling them to identify growth opportunities, transform their businesses and eclipse their corporate goals.

Our paramount objective is to fast-track high impact appointments, generating maximum value for our clients

Setting the industry benchmark, our client-centric model delivers a 98% placement rate and 100% stick rate. Equally impressive is our commitment to diversity, with 57% of our executive and non-executive placements being female in last 24 months. This inclusive policy also extends to championing cultural diversity with every search we undertake.

Founded in 2005 by Jason Johnson, one of the region’s most successful and influential executive search consultants, we are headquartered in Sydney with offices in Melbourne and Brisbane.

Acquiring Boardroom Partners in 2020 – founded in 1999 and now the leading brand in the provision of advice on the performance, structure and composition of boards – has further strengthened our holistic offering, positioning Johnson Partners at the pinnacle of the Australian executive search industry.

In 2022, we acquired Caldwell New Zealand wholly into the Johnson Partners business and at the same time began our alliance partnership with Caldwell globally.

  • 98%
    Placement rate
  • 100%
    Stick rate
  • 57%
    Female Placement Rate
“Technology is a very male-dominated industry so we were very keen to secure a talented female for this role and we were delighted that Johnson Partners were able to deliver such an outstanding candidate.”
Simon Moorfield

—Chief Information Officer, AGL

Brands we have helped

“Awarded the world's leading Diversity & Inclusion search firm for 2020”
AESC Inaugural IDEA Award for Championing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in Leadership

Our
Competitive
Advantage

Performance

Having executed over 2,000 individual executive searches and 500 board searches over 17 years, we have developed market-leading digital innovations to expedite the delivery of outstanding outcomes. Our proprietary SearchSIGMA process significantly reduces the average period to access talent and fill a roll within just 64 days – twice as fast as the industry norm.

Fit

Our proprietary CultureFIT tool provides a framework for ranking and benchmarking a candidate’s relative alignment with specific roles and cultures to ensure an ideal match, reducing turnover in the long run.

Diversity

We proudly possess market-leading statistics for the successful placement of women in executive and non-executive roles. Over the past 24 months 57% of our executive and non-executive director appointments have been women.

Our focus doesn’t stop at gender, we also support cultural diversity, with a committed guarantee that every short-list includes at least one culturally diverse candidate.

As the founders of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian Australian Awards, we are proactively identifying the country’s rich pipeline of Asian talent.

  • 49%
    of our executive placements were women in last 12 months
  • 50%
    of our non-executive placements were women in last 12 months

Reach

We are renowned for appointing executives with exceptional international experience in offshore markets who can apply their expertise locally. Every long and short list are geographically diverse, including candidates from every relevant major financial centre around the world. Our proprietary ExpatPORTAL enables us to stay connected with Australia and New Zealand’s talented diaspora offshore to ensure that they are accessible when the right role presents.

Access

We have carefully managed our client footprint to ensure that we have few off-limits locally and can access the best talent for our clients. Typically, we work for only one major client in each sector thereby enabling us to source talent from each of their major competitors. Unlike global executive search firms, we have no offshore restrictions, so can access talent in every relevant global organisation and market.

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