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Give the CEO and leadership team the insight they need without creating unnecessary disruption.
For Boards Considering Revenue Leadership
Your Next Revenue Leadership Decision
Deserves More Than a Resume.
Your board is asked to balance opportunity, timing, and fiduciary responsibility. When revenue leadership needs to evolve, the decision deserves clearer evidence, not more pressure or another polished résumé.
CONFIDENTIAL · BOARD-READY · DESIGNED FOR HIGH-STAKES REVENUE DECISIONS
2 weeksDesigned executive-shortlist timeline for qualified mandates.
Selected Leadership Placements
Executive Shortlist in 2 WeeksMove at an appropriate pace when the mandate is clear.
Pay When They PerformFees structured to stay aligned with the impact a leader creates.
More Than a PlacementA full revenue execution system, built around the board’s decision.
The Board’s Challenge
The Signals Rarely Arrive All At Once.
A revenue leadership question often emerges slowly. Your board sees a forecast become less dependable, a growth plan take longer to convert, or a management team working hard without gaining the expected traction.
- Your board needs confidence that the revenue plan is executable.
- Management needs support, not a public loss of confidence.
- The company cannot afford to mistake urgency for clarity.
A Board Decision With Real Consequences
The Responsibility Behind The Role Is Bigger Than The Title.
Your board may be weighing shareholder expectations, founder confidence, team stability, and the cost of getting the timing wrong. Those concerns deserve a process designed for judgment, not a rush to fill a vacancy.
Protect The Growth Story
Understand the execution gaps behind a revenue plan before a missed forecast becomes a pattern.
Make A Defensible Call
Build enough evidence for a recommendation your board can support with confidence.
A Quieter First Step
The Board’s Three-Question Revenue Leadership Framework.
For a board not ready to begin a mandate, this is a practical way to assess whether the question is leadership, capability, or execution.
What Must Change?
Name the revenue outcome the business needs in the next two to four quarters, not simply the role it thinks it needs to hire.
What Is Constraining It?
Separate leadership gaps from the surrounding issues in capability, coaching, process, and execution.
What Evidence Would Be Enough?
Agree the commercial, behavioural, and operating signals that would support a responsible recommendation.
A Clearer Way Forward
Before Your Board Asks Who To Hire, Understand What Needs To Change.
TALSMART combines executive search with commercial intelligence, behavior insight, and revenue diagnostics, so the leadership recommendation is grounded in the business the person will inherit.
CONTEXTMap The Business Challenge Behind The Mandate.
CAPABILITYIdentify The Leadership And Execution Capabilities Required.
FITAssess Candidates Beyond Their Past Titles And Presentations.
FOLLOW-THROUGHSupport The Revenue System After The Appointment.
The TALSMART Revenue Execution System
Your Board Is Not Only Appointing A CRO. It Is Strengthening The System Around Them.
Search is the entry point. The lasting value is a better-equipped revenue organization, with clearer gaps, stronger coaching, and intelligence available in the moments that matter.
01 / SEARCHExecutive Search
Define the leadership mandate in the context of the business.
02 / DIAGNOSERevenue Gap Diagnostics
Make capability and execution gaps visible before they become costly.
03 / BUILDTech Sales Mastery
Turn insight into stronger enterprise-selling capability.
04 / SUPPORTExecutive Coaching
Help leaders guide their teams through the moments that matter.
05 / LEARNCoachRobo
Bring revenue intelligence closer to each important deal.
Connected, Not Fragmented
Each Part Of The System Helps The Next Board Decision Become Stronger.
The aim is not to sell an array of services. It is to create continuity, from your board’s first question to the revenue team’s day-to-day execution.
Make The Invisible Visible.
Use diagnostics before, during, or after a senior hire to identify capability gaps, leadership constraints, and areas for performance improvement.
Help Good Teams Get Better.
Build the enterprise-selling judgement and discipline needed to close the gaps a diagnostic reveals.
Give Leaders Experienced Support.
Practical coaching for forecasting, negotiation, enterprise selling, leadership, and consistent execution.
Bring Elite Revenue Intelligence Closer.
A strategic revenue intelligence engine designed to surface opportunity patterns, blind spots, and better paths through complex deals.
A Board-Ready Process
A Considered Recommendation. A Clear Path Forward.
TALSMART gives your board and management team a shared process for moving from uncertainty to an evidence-backed leadership decision.
01 / LISTEN
Understand The Mandate
Clarify the business context, board concerns, and outcomes the next leader must enable.
02 / DIAGNOSE
Build The Evidence
Map revenue gaps, operating realities, and the capabilities that will matter most.
03 / ASSESS
Identify Leadership Fit
Evaluate candidates against the real mandate, not only their prior company or title.
04 / SUPPORT
Strengthen Execution
Use coaching, mastery, and intelligence to support the organization after the appointment.
Designed For Confidence
What Your Board Should Expect From A Senior-Hire Process.
Clear decision criteria. Appropriate pace. Commercial context. And a structure that remains aligned to performance after the appointment.
Confidential By Design
Built for sensitive leadership discussions, strategic changes, and high-stakes board conversations.
Structured Assessment
Commercial and behaviour intelligence inform the recommendation, not résumé familiarity alone.
Aligned To Performance
A commercial model designed around the impact a leadership appointment should create.
Selected Leadership Placements
Revenue Leadership. Measurable Impact.
When the mandate is clear, the right leader can create early momentum across the revenue organization.
VP Of Enterprise Sales · Placed In 11 Days
Needed a VP to restructure a fragmented enterprise sales team and introduce a structured qualification process. The appointed leader brought 14 years of enterprise SaaS sales leadership and began reshaping the pipeline within 30 days.
+41%Revenue per rep within the first six months post-placement
Time To Place: 11 days
Chief Revenue Officer · Placed In 9 Days
A Series B SaaS company needed a CRO who understood enterprise sales and could build operating cadence from scratch. The appointed leader had previously scaled two technology companies through $50M+ ARR.
34%Faster deal cycles in the first complete sales quarter
Time To Place: 9 days
Regional VP EMEA Sales · Placed In 10 Days
Required a GTM operator to open new markets across EMEA and build a regional team from zero. The appointed leader had scaled EMEA sales organizations at two enterprise software firms and made first hires in week three.
28%Pipeline growth within the first 90 days of placement
Time To Place: 10 days
Common Board Questions
Clarity Before Commitment.
Is TALSMART An Executive Search Firm?
Executive search is part of the offer, but the objective is broader: a stronger revenue leadership decision supported by diagnostics, capability building, coaching, and revenue intelligence.
How Does TALSMART Work With A Board And Management Team?
The process is designed to support a shared, evidence-led conversation. It helps clarify the business challenge and leadership mandate while respecting management’s ownership of day-to-day execution.
How Quickly Can Your Board See A Shortlist?
For qualified executive mandates, TALSMART is designed to provide an executive shortlist in two weeks, once the mandate and decision criteria are clear.
What Does “Pay When They Perform” Mean?
It describes TALSMART’s intent to align its commercial model to the impact created after the appointment. Confirm the specific terms for your board’s mandate directly with the TALSMART team.
Can TALSMART Help Before The Board Decides To Hire?
Yes. Revenue Gap Diagnostics can help identify whether the constraint is leadership, capability, process, coaching, or execution before a hiring decision is made.
The Next Board Conversation
Make The Next Revenue Leadership Decision One Your Board Can Stand Behind.
Start with a confidential conversation about what the business needs next. Then build the evidence, the shortlist, and the revenue system to support the outcome.
A Confidential Board Conversation
Start With The Real Board Mandate.
Share the business question your board is working through. TALSMART will use it to understand the context before discussing a path forward.
Your brief is reviewed only by the TALSMART team responsible for confidential mandates. It is handled discreetly and is not shared outside the engagement review process.
