Hanson Search’s Organisational Development Executive Search practice, part of Hanson Corporate, helps organisations hire the specialists who design how a business is structured, how it changes and how its people perform at their best. Working alongside our People and Culture team, we place the senior OD leaders who turn strategy into the structures, capabilities and culture that deliver it.

We advise FTSE 100 corporates, high-growth businesses, financial services institutions, sovereign-backed entities and private equity portfolio companies on senior Organisational Development appointments where the way a business is built is as important as what it sells.

Senior Organisational Development Roles We Recruit

Our Organisational Development Executive Search practice covers the senior end of the OD function. We place Heads and Directors of Organisational Development, Heads of Organisational Design, Heads of Change and Transformation, Heads of Talent and Capability, Heads of Culture and Heads of Learning and Development.

We also lead Organisational Development recruitment for senior appointments in workforce planning, leadership development, organisational effectiveness and people transformation.

The common thread is impact. Our clients want an OD leader who can connect organisational design to commercial strategy, build capability that lasts, and lead change people actually believe in.

Why Organisational Development Hiring Matters Now

The OD brief has grown in importance as the pace of change has accelerated. Three shifts explain why.

Transformation is constant. Organisations are restructuring, merging and adopting new technology more often than ever, and someone has to design how the business works on the other side.

AI is reshaping roles. As tasks are automated and augmented, OD leaders are central to redesigning jobs, building new skills and helping people adapt rather than resist.

Culture and capability decide who wins. Strategy is easy to copy; the way an organisation is built and how its people perform is not. OD has become a genuine source of advantage.

The strongest candidates combine deep OD expertise with commercial judgement, fluency in data and technology, and the influence to lead change across an entire organisation.

How We Approach Organisational Development Executive Search

Every Organisational Development Executive Search is led personally by a senior consultant, from first briefing to final offer. We do not hand mandates down a chain or pad shortlists to look busy.

The best OD leader for your business is rarely the obvious one. They might sit inside a consultancy, lead change in a different sector, or be building capability in a fast-scaling business. So we map widely across in-house functions, advisory firms and high-growth organisations, and assess every candidate on OD and change credibility, commercial judgement, data and technology fluency, and the influence to lead transformation at scale.

Diverse and inclusive shortlists are prioritised on every mandate. As a B Corp, responsible search is built into how we work.

Speak to Our Organisational Development Executive Search Team

If you are hiring a Head of Organisational Development, OD Director or senior change and transformation leader, we would welcome a confidential conversation. We advise organisations across the UK, Europe, the US and the Middle East, from FTSE 100 corporates and high-growth businesses to financial institutions, sovereign-backed entities and private equity portfolio companies.

Get in touch