Design Leadership.

Senior Leadership Search / Architecture / Interior Design / Landscape / Urban Design

We don't advertise roles. We research markets and invite leaders.

Maven is a senior leadership search consultancy working exclusively in architecture, interior design, landscape and urban design. If you've heard from us, you made a very short list.

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Senior leadership only. Design professions only. Since 2009.

We only make game-changing appointments.

Principals / Directors / Sector Leaders / Studio Leaders

The appointments that shape a practice's next decade, filled by leaders who were rarely looking. We run a handful of searches at a time, each one retained by a respected practice and researched from the entire market, not the fraction that happens to be looking.

Which is why, when we reach out, it's never a mass mailout. It's a considered invitation with your name on it.

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Not looking? Neither were most of the leaders we've placed.

The strongest careers in this industry are rarely built by job hunting. They're built by staying open. One conversation, at the right moment, with the right practice.

That's all we're asking for. A coffee. Off the record. No pressure, no pitch, no obligation.

The worst outcome is a good conversation. The best is the role that defines your next decade.

"I wasn't looking. Dean's approach was the reason I took the call. Eighteen months on, it's the best move of my career."

Andrew L.

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Two published books. Forty of Australia's leading practitioners, in their own words. Meet the people behind Maven

It's just a coffee.

Informal, confidential and entirely without obligation.