Ryan Pritchard · RPC
Differentiate your shortlist.Transition partner built in.
I work as an associate transition partner to recruitment agencies, head hunters and executive search firms — giving your placed leaders a structured, confidential 90-day programme that accelerates impact, avoids the classic derailers and protects the appointment you worked so hard to make.
18 years' experience · ICF European Masters Coach · Working with search partners across London, Thames Valley, Oxford, the Midlands and Manchester
~40%
of senior hires are judged a failure inside 18 months
10×
salary — the true cost of a failed executive appointment
90
days to establish credibility, or spend a year recovering it
1:1
confidential partner, from offer accepted to day 90
The problem
Senior leaders rarely derail on capability. They derail on transition.
01
Misreading the culture
Technically excellent, politically isolated. The strategy is right and nobody follows it.
02
No early wins
Momentum stalls, sponsors go quiet and the mandate quietly shrinks.
03
Over-indexing on the last role
Replaying the previous playbook in an organisation that needs a different one.
04
Weak stakeholder mapping
The board is managed; the real power base is not.
05
Team inherited, not built
Difficult people decisions delayed until they become expensive.
06
No thinking space
Nobody senior enough to be honest with, so blind spots stay blind.
For recruitment agencies & head hunters
Be the firm whose placements are still winning at day 90.
Protect the placement
Guarantee periods, rebills and replacement searches are the most expensive thing on your P&L. A structured 90-day programme materially reduces the odds of an early exit.
Differentiate the pitch
Very few firms offer transition support as part of the mandate. Bundling RPC turns a search proposal into a leadership outcome proposal.
Deepen the client relationship
Ninety days of structured contact after the invoice keeps your firm present, useful and top of mind for the next mandate.
Strengthen candidate experience
Candidates remember who backed them after the offer. That is where referrals and repeat placements come from.
Flexible commercials
Bundle into the fee, offer as a paid add-on, or reserve it for critical or at-risk appointments. Discreet, white-labelled if you prefer.
Zero delivery burden
No process to run, no tooling to buy. I work directly with the leader and report at whatever level of visibility you and your client agree.
Value to your client
- Faster time to full contribution
- Early visibility of risk
- A leader who builds the right team
- Return on a six-figure investment
Value to your candidate
- A confidential thinking partner
- A structured plan for the first ninety days
- Faster credibility with the board
- Evidence that your firm invests in people
The programme
Three phases. Ninety days. One outcome — a leader in control.
Days 1–30
Take Stock
Listen, map, diagnose.
- Stakeholder and power mapping beyond the org chart
- Reading the culture: what actually gets rewarded here
- Clarifying the real mandate versus the written one
- Naming the leader's own patterns, triggers and blind spots
Days 31–60
Take Action
Choose the battles and win them.
- Selecting early wins that are visible, valuable and achievable
- Team assessment and the first hard people decisions
- Building the coalition that will carry the strategy
- Communicating a clear, repeatable leadership narrative
Days 61–90
Take Control
Own the agenda beyond day 90.
- Converting early credibility into strategic licence
- Operating rhythm, delegation and sustainable pace
- Locking in sponsorship at board and shareholder level
- A 12-month plan the leader owns without me
6
Sessions over 90 days
2 hrs
Each session, fortnightly
90
Days of structured support
The programme is six two-hour sessions, held fortnightly across the first three months. Sessions run virtual or in person, starting the moment the offer is accepted. Content stays confidential to the leader; progress reporting is agreed up front with you and the client.
What changes
Impact delivered sooner, with fewer expensive false starts
Political and cultural risk surfaced before it becomes a crisis
Stronger, faster team decisions in the window where they are cheap
A leader who is calmer, clearer and more resilient under scrutiny
Higher retention through the guarantee period and well beyond it
A demonstrable return on the client's investment in the hire
About Ryan
Eighteen years coaching senior leaders through the moments that decide their tenure.
- ICF European Coach
- Henley Business School
- NLP Master Practitioner
I'm Ryan Pritchard, founder of RPC. For eighteen years I have coached executives and senior teams through appointments, promotions, integrations and turnarounds — the transitions where the cost of getting it wrong is highest and the support available is usually lowest.
My work is boutique and deliberately tailored. No packaged curriculum, no generic competency model. Each engagement is built around the individual leader, the specific organisation they are walking into, and the mandate they have actually been given.
I've worked across private equity, banking, technology, FMCG, startups, global brands, hotels, manufacturing, media, marketing, education, construction and telecoms — with everyone from founder-led startups to global brands and private-equity portfolio businesses. That breadth matters: patterns of derailment repeat across sectors, and I've seen most of them.
For search firms, I sit quietly behind your brand. The relationship stays yours. My job is simply to make sure the leader you placed is still winning long after the guarantee period ends.
Start a conversation
Design the support before day one.
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Everything shared is treated as confidential, whether or not we go on to work together.