Help your founders build the teams that change what's possible.
Give portfolio companies access to senior Talent capability at the moments they need it most – from building the hiring function and making critical leadership appointments to integrating the leaders they hire.
One relationship gives multiple founders access to senior Talent capability when they need it.
Talent is one of the most valuable things a fund can give a founder.
Capital creates the opportunity. The people a founder surrounds themselves with determine what they can do with it.
But the Talent needs of an early-stage company change quickly.
One founder needs help building their first hiring function. Another has three critical leadership appointments ahead. Another has just hired the executive who will change how they lead the company.
A Goddard Talent portfolio partnership gives founders access to experienced Talent capability across those moments – without every portfolio company needing to build it themselves.
Build. Hire. Integrate.
Fractional Talent Leadership
Experienced Talent leadership when a portfolio company needs to build, strengthen or temporarily lead its hiring capability. From hiring strategy and operating model to team leadership and hands-on delivery.
Explore Fractional Talent Leadership→Fractional Executive Search
For portfolio companies with several critical leadership appointments ahead. One embedded Executive Search Partner can own a portfolio of Head, Director, VP and C-suite searches while building stronger executive hiring capability around them.
Explore Fractional Executive Search→Integrated™
A coaching-led leadership integration programme for a newly appointed leader and the person who hired them. Both are coached individually and together as they build the new leadership relationship.
Explore Integrated™→One fund relationship. Support where it's needed.
Not every portfolio company needs the same thing at the same time. The fund-level relationship creates continuity and access across the portfolio.
When a company needs substantial hands-on support, Goddard Talent can work directly with that founder and business through the proposition that fits the moment.
Useful before a full engagement is needed.
The portfolio relationship can also create a senior Talent sounding board for founders across the fund. This might include:
Fund-level access. Company-level delivery.
The fund-level partnership creates access and continuity. When a portfolio company needs substantial hands-on delivery, that company engages Goddard Talent directly.
Portfolio partnership
Fund-level access and strategic support.
Direct engagement
Partnerships can be shaped around portfolio size, stage, geography and the level of support the fund wants to provide.
Talent capability that compounds across the portfolio.
Working across a portfolio creates context. Patterns emerge.
That learning doesn't need to disappear at the end of each individual engagement. A portfolio relationship allows insight to compound – while every company still gets support built around its own context.
Built inside the companies you're investing in.
Goddard Talent's approach comes from working inside and alongside startups, scaleups and global technology businesses – building Talent functions, leading recruiting teams, delivering critical technical and leadership hiring, and coaching leaders through transition.
Senior enough to work with founders and investors. Hands-on enough to make things happen.
What changed because of who we hired?
That's ultimately the question.
Better Talent support shouldn't simply create more hiring activity. It should help portfolio companies make better decisions about who they need, reach people they couldn't reach before, build stronger leadership teams and create more capable companies.
Because capital creates opportunity. People determine what becomes possible.
Give your founders access to better Talent decisions.
Let's explore how a flexible Goddard Talent portfolio partnership could support the companies you're helping to build.