Build the team that changes what's possible.
Fractional Talent Leadership, Executive Search and Integrated™ for ambitious tech companies. Senior expertise for the moments that shape what comes next.
Hiring needs change. Your Talent model should too.
Scaling isn't linear. One moment you're building the foundations. The next you're hiring three critical leaders, entering a new market or accelerating growth.
You need senior Talent expertise that can move with the business, shaping the strategy when needed, getting hands-on when it matters, and flexing as priorities change.
That's where Goddard Talent comes in.
Build. Hire. Integrate.
The Talent challenges that matter most don't all happen at the same moment. Sometimes you need to build the capability. Sometimes you need to make the critical hires. And sometimes the hire is made, and the work is helping a new leadership relationship succeed. Goddard brings senior, hands-on support to all three.
Fractional Talent Leadership
Experienced Talent leadership without the full-time hire. An experienced Fractional Talent Leader works inside your business, shaping the strategy, building the capability and staying close enough to the work to deliver.
Executive Search
Executive Search, from the inside. One embedded Executive Search Partner takes ownership of multiple critical leadership searches, bringing the focus of retained search with the context and continuity of being inside the business.
Integrated™
Coaching the relationship behind the hire. Integrated™ works with a newly appointed leader and the person who hired them, individually and together, to build the relationship the role needs to succeed.
Senior enough to shape it. Hands-on enough to deliver it.
Scaling companies don't need more Talent strategy that sits in a deck.
They need people who can see the bigger picture, challenge what isn't working and build what comes next – while staying close enough to the work to make it happen.
That's how Goddard Talent works. Strategy and execution, together.
What changed because of who we hired?
Hiring isn't the outcome. What happens next is.
- Did we attract people we couldn't attract before?
- Did they raise the level?
- Are they thriving?
- Are they creating the impact we hired them to create?
The best measure of hiring isn't simply who joined. It's what became possible because they did.
Built from inside the work.
Goddard Talent's approach comes from experience building, leading and delivering Talent across startups, scaleups and global technology companies.
From building early-stage teams to scaling organisations, executive search and Talent transformation, the work has always stayed close to the people and decisions that shape a business.
Meet Matthew Goddard
I've spent 15+ years hiring the people who build and lead ambitious companies, across executive search, in-house Talent, embedded consulting and Talent leadership.
That mix shapes how I built Goddard Talent: strategic without being removed from the work, commercially minded, and focused not just on making hires, but on what happens because of them.
Building something ambitious?
Tell me what you're building, where Talent is getting in the way, and what you need next.