Insight-led Talent Acquisition and Retention

❝ 90% plus retention track record of placing diverse, digital leadership talent ❞

❝ insights that help improve your employer brand ❞

Insight-led Talent Acquisition and Retention

❝ 90% plus retention track record of placing diverse, digital leadership talent ❞

❝ insights that help improve your employer brand ❞

90%

90% + retention track record of candidates placed with our insight led approach.

42%

42% of placements have been women, many in leadership roles.

500

Awarded Top 500 SME in
Singapore. Recognised at Asia Recruitment Awards.

Our Services

Hire a Digital Leader

Check-in to Retain a Leader

Leadership Development

❛ We pair industry-leading digital leadership recruitment with world-class coaching ❜

Bricoleur Consulting, is a boutique leadership coaching and recruitment company dedicated to accelerating your business growth by placing and developing highly effective leaders. We don’t just identify leaders; we help them become even better.

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, leaders need to wear many hats. Comfort with digital technologies, including AI, is no longer a bonus—it’s a necessity. That’s why we focus exclusively on digitally fluent leaders. 

At Bricoleur Consulting, we pair industry-leading digital leadership recruitment with world-class coaching. This is because we have seen that newly hired leaders benefit from extra support in their first few days, weeks and months. Also coaching for all leaders helps them develop better insight into their motivations and values leading to more aligned decision-making and reducing the risk of burnout. 

❛ We don’t just identify leaders; we help them become even better.❜

❛Insight into one’s inner world is key to becoming a better leader❜

LEADERSHIP COACHING

Coaching is a strategic investment in your leadership with upto a 7X ROI. Bricoleur Consulting offers insight-led leadership coaching designed to enhance the effectiveness of both new and existing leaders. Also coaching for helps individuals develop better insight into their own motivations and values leading to more aligned decision-making and reducing the risk of burnout. Our seasoned coaches, who have real-world business experience, work closely with your leaders to build their capabilities, helping them to inspire their teams, drive innovation, and navigate complex challenges. Whether you’re aiming to upskill your current leadership, drive cultural transformation for growth or support newly hired executives, our leadership coaching programs ensure long-term success by turning good leaders into even more effective leaders.

All our coaches come with multi-market, practical and business experience and are equipped to support leaders across time zones and geographies. They are certified, bound by the ethical standards of their respective professional associations and undertake regular supervision with qualified practitioners.

❛ Digital fluency is crucial today, to more effective leadership ❜

Digital Leadership Recruitment

Digital and tech fluency refers to comfort leveraging technology for strategic benefit.

Over 70% of digital transformations fail. Research shows that the major reason for their failure is the lack of senior leadership to oversee and steward the digital transformation efforts.

Our approach goes beyond just placing leaders—it’s about finding individuals with the right attributes that drive real impact. When we assess candidates, we prioritize qualities such as self-awareness, empathy, and the ability to inspire and motivate teams. Above  all else however we prioritise strategic and transformative thinking skills. 

Our team comprises practicing professionals from the industry who have often done the job they are assessing for, when recruiting. 

Our track record includes critical placements like Chief Digital Officer, Head of Performance Marketing, Head of Strategic Planning, Head of Data Analytics, Country Head and other C-suite roles and boast a 90% + retention rate since we started. We are proud to add that nearly half of our placements have been women, many in leadership roles.

At Bricoleur Consulting, we pair industry-leading digital leadership recruitment with world-class coaching. as newly hired leaders benefit from extra support in their first few days, weeks and months. 

❛ Insights that strengthen your employer brand ❜

Customised Research and Evidence Led Consulting

We offer evidence based consulting. We look at existing data from people analytics and other data related to the team and organisation, to analyse and connect the dots. We then execute customised qualitative research if needed to fill gaps to complete our understanding before developing the way forward.

❛ We don’t just identify digital leaders; we help them become even better.❜

LEADERSHIP COACHING

Bricoleur Consulting offers insight-led leadership coaching designed to enhance the effectiveness of both new and existing leaders.  Our seasoned coaches, who have real-world business experience, work closely with your leaders to build their capabilities, helping them to inspire their teams, drive innovation, and navigate complex challenges. Whether you’re aiming to upskill your current leadership or support newly hired executives, our leadership coaching programs ensure long-term success by turning good leaders into even more effective leaders.

All our coaches come with multi-market experience and are equipped to support leaders across time zones and geographies. In fact we continue to provide coaching for our placements even after they’ve taken on their new roles. Its no wonder that we maintain such a high retention track record!

❛ An often overlooked opportunity for strategic insight ❜

Strategic Exit InterviewTM

Exit interviews that go much deeper. We deploy qualitative research and look for patterns. To get real insight, use an objective third party like the Bricoleur Consulting team to make strategic use of your exit interview findings. Unearth what people are really thinking and feeling; go beyond the rational responses that you see in survey after survey. Tap into the underlying feelings and patterns.

Testimonials

We engaged Bricoleur to conduct a comprehensive interview with our 2nd line executives to understand their motivations to unleash their potential and get their feedback on our company’s growth trajectory since our inception 4 years ago. We wanted to understand their perspectives on our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, as well as their suggestions for improvement and innovation.
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Start-up with $10mln USD+ Revenue
Founder and Executive Director
I have worked with Bricoleur Consulting for the past 4 years and we have developed a very strong working relationship with them. They have helped us hire for senior and specialist roles across markets like Singapore and Japan. They have a very insightful approach of understanding the culture of the organization and finding talent in sync with the client’s culture.
Top 5 Media Company
HR Head, Asia
Working with Bricoleur Consulting has been nothing but delightful. 'D' is a stand-out specialist recruiter in a company which itself stands out from other agencies for the quality of service and personal touch they offer. She is a fantastic listener who always takes her own clients need into account in order to provide a satisfactory and sustainable placement. Most importantly 'D' is always happy to get feedback and fine-tunes the pool of relevant candidates accordingly producing efficient and faster hiring process with minimal time waste.We have had multiple hiring through Bricoleur with nothing but success.
Top 5 Global Ecommerce Companies
Head of Product and Technology, Southeast Asia,
I have worked with 'A' in varying capacities, as a colleague in Unilever marketing and on an important Diversity & Inclusion project. 'A' has a great capacity for listening well and understanding nuanced and complex insights. She thinks out of the box, is visionary and has the ability to come up with pathbreaking ideas. 'A' is a highly personable, bright and interesting person and a pleasure to work with.
Fortune 500 company
Global Diversity and Inclusion Director
"K offers a wealth of experience, expertise and wisdom and brings a broad range of perspectives to any situation. She is also a strategic thinker with excellent business acumen. K is authentic and genuine in her approach and a pleasure to work with."
Automotive Industry
Coaching Client, Australia

Work with Practicing Professionals Who Care

We believe that a large reason for our 90% + retention track record is the nature of our team. The Bricoleur team has always comprised practicing professionals with multi-market experience from boutique and Fortune 500 companies in Digital Media, Data Analytics, Marketing, Research, Fintech, Adtech and Martech roles.

Our team also comprises many individuals with leadership experience. We also care deeply about ensuring a win-win for all stakeholders.

'Real' Insight to inform Leadership Identification and Development

As an organisation we always start with insight about an organisation’s culture and priorities. Our assessment, retention and alignment processes utilise projective and ethnographic research approaches when identifying leaders. Our insight-led approach combined with the nuanced understanding of the role requirements by our team who are all practicing professionals from the industry have resulted in our successful approach over the years. 

  • Research from Gallup highlights that 82% of the time, companies fail to choose the candidate with the right leadership talent, leading to poor business outcomes, disengaged employees, and increased turnover. Utilizing an insight-led approach helps mitigate this risk.
  • According to the Center for Creative Leadership, 58% of managers said they never received any formal leadership training, yet those who undergo evidence-based leadership development programs are 60% more effective in driving team performance and engagement.By anchoring leadership coaching in insight, organizations foster a more personalized, goal-oriented, and business-aligned approach that leads to lasting behavioral changes and stronger leadership outcomes.

'Real' Insight can Move the Needle

The evolution of HR to incorporate People Analytics tools has dramatically changed people practices in many organisations. With this evolution there has been an emphasis on quantification of people related aspects. While extremely useful, the picture can get clearer in two ways to get to ‘real’ insight:

1. Qualitative research to get to the ‘why’ in any issue. For example in the case of DEI, when after years of trying to actively move the needle on improving inclusion when you hit a roadblock, qualitative research  can help you look behind the numbers to see what’s going on inside people’s heads. Qualitative research and its various methodologies can be instrumental in behaviour change.

As an organisation we always start with insight about an organisation’s culture and priorities. Our assessment, retention and alignment processes utilise projective and ethnographic research approaches when identifying leaders. Our insight-led approach combined with the nuanced understanding of the role requirements by our team who are all practicing professionals from the industry have resulted in our successful approach over the years. 

Research from Gallup highlights that 82% of the time, companies fail to choose the candidate with the right leadership talent for management roles, leading to poor business outcomes, disengaged employees, and increased turnover. Utilizing an insight-led approach helps mitigate this risk.

By anchoring leadership coaching in insight, organizations foster a more personalized, goal-oriented, and business-aligned approach that leads to lasting behavioral changes and stronger leadership outcomes. According to the Center for Creative Leadership, 58% of managers said they never received any formal leadership training, yet those who undergo evidence-based leadership development programs are 60% more effective in driving team performance and engagement.

Why choose Bricoleur?

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Fast impact

Contractors can hit the ground running and provide immediate solutions.

Short notice periods

Working on an urgent project? A contractor can start as soon as tomorrow.

Financial savings

Hiring contractors is cost effective and friendly to your bottom line in the long run.

Trial new roles

You can trial a potential permanent role without making long-term commitments.

Clients We have Partnered with

Leadership Starts from Within

Aligned: Why CEOs need Company Brand Alignment in the age of a Questioning Workforce

There were many signs prior to the pandemic on how the employee-employer relationship was going to change. With the pandemic accelerating many trends, many of the things mentioned in this book written by Anu D’Souza, Managing Director of Bricoleur Consulting are now coming about. The book highlights the importance of aligning the company’s social purpose with an employee’s day-to-day. The book also encourages leaders to find a driving social purpose that can engage and galvanise customers, employees and potential talent.

For more information on how we can partner you please email [email protected] or call +65 96536440 or +61 423574913

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