About David
I was one of those recruiters.
I spent 20 years on the hiring side. Four in HR in the Royal Air Force, then 16 running a full desk in agency recruiting, two of those at my own firm, working with candidates and the companies hiring them simultaneously.
I sat across from every candidate I represented. Before a hiring manager ever saw them. Before a resume even went out.
And I sat in the room when the decisions got made.
I worked with hedge funds, private equity firms, asset managers, the big agency and media companies, and the major consulting firms. Most of the big names in New York.
I've watched strong candidates get passed on in seconds, just because nobody could tell what they actually wanted.
I did the passing.
Here's what I saw from that chair.
The candidates who stalled weren't the weak ones. They were experienced leaders with real track records, and they were invisible for one reason: their story pointed everywhere, so it landed nowhere.
And nobody told them. Not the recruiters, who'd moved on in seconds. Not the people around them, who all had a stake in their next move. They got silence, and they filled that silence with more applications.
They'd spent 20 years knowing exactly where they stood. The search was the first thing they'd ever done with no one in their corner.
So that's the job now.
In 2020, I crossed the desk for good.
Today, I work with senior leaders who are deep in a search and getting no answers. We commit to one direction and build everything around it. And the thing the search took from you, knowing where you stand, comes back: a straight answer on every decision, from someone who's seen it from the other side.
The work happens through Momentum, my 1:1 program, with Momentum OS underneath it, a custom AI workspace built around you that's yours for life.
If this sounds like where you are, you can book a time to talk below.