Sam Allen Associates

Sam Allen Associates (SAA) is a boutique Board services firm with the expertise, tenacity and reach of a global search firm. We have a strong track record of working successfully with a wide range of FTSE, private and private-equity backed businesses and have developed relationships at Board level across a broad range of sectors including consumer goods, retail, retail banking, telecommunications, digital, transport, leisure, insurance, healthcare, utilities and sport.

We work with international clients to appoint critical hires including Chairs, Non-Executive Directors, c-suite Executives. Our main areas of business are:

Board and Executive Search

We partner with clients in the UK and internationally, to appoint Chairs, Non-Executive Directors and c-suite Executive Committee members.

Board Effectiveness Reviews

We have a track record of working successfully with clients to lead external Board Effectiveness Reviews. We partner with key stakeholders to reach a practical action plan that provokes reflection and challenge.

Succession Planning and Assessment

We help our clients to understand and develop their existing talent, providing an external perspective to help benchmark against strategic drivers. SAA is qualified to lead a range of assessment tools.

Referencing

We help our clients to “de-risk” critical hiring decisions through extensive due diligence. Hiring the wrong people is extremely costly in terms of money, time, reputational damage and the disruption to a company’s strategy. We provide comprehensive and meticulous referencing on individuals, gaining the confidential opinions of their superiors, peers, clients, ex colleagues and other informed market intermediaries. Referencing supports the selection process and can help identify areas to address in “on boarding”. We consider a candidate’s impact on a company’s long term performance as a measure of our own success.