The sales leaders technology companies most want to hire aren't looking. They never answer an advert, they red-button calls from employers, HR and internal recruiters they don't know, and they will only pick up to a headhunter they trust. For over 30 years, Pete Davies has been that person: their confidential, off-the-record trusted advisor, approaching the right company on their behalf while they're still in post. It's a dark art, and it brings the top 1% of global talent to the table. As CEO, Executive Partner and Founder of Selective Search, the counter-culture headhunters, he has made 500+ senior sales appointments since 2005, across the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East. Every mandate delivered. Never once refunded a fee. "Built on judgement, not algorithms."

The sales leaders technology companies most want to hire aren't looking. They never answer an advert, they red-button calls from employers, HR and internal recruiters they don't know, and they will only pick up to a headhunter they trust. For over 30 years, Pete Davies has been that person: their confidential, off-the-record trusted advisor, approaching the right company on their behalf while they're still in post. It's a dark art, and it brings the top 1% of global talent to the table. As CEO, Executive Partner and Founder of Selective Search, the counter-culture headhunters, he has made 500+ senior sales appointments since 2005, across the UK, US, Europe and the Middle East. Every mandate delivered. Never once refunded a fee. "Built on judgement, not algorithms."

Talks Pete gives
1. Why the best sales leaders "red-button" recruiters: they hang up on cold calls, and how to reach them anyway
2. The interview test that fails: how to see how a leader really sells
3. The $1 million mistake: the true cost of a bad sales leadership hire
4. AI can read the data, but it can't read the room: hiring in the AI era
5. The first 90 days: why most new CROs fail, and how to stop it

Track record
• 500+ senior sales appointments since 2005
• Retained searches for TCS, Capgemini, Atos, BAE Systems, Zendesk and Insight, plus PE-backed scale-ups
• Every mandate delivered. Never once refunded a fee.
• Every candidate put forward has agreed to meet the client
• 50+ LinkedIn recommendations, every one from a leader he placed

Pete is also an ICF PCC executive coach (Henley Business School), trained in Challenger, SPIN Selling, Holden Power Base Selling and Target Account Selling, and the creator of the Selective Sales Leader Diagnostic™.

Founders, CEOs and CROs leave his conversations with practical ways to hire better sales leaders, faster, and to keep them.

Based in London, UK. Records remotely.
selectivesearch.co.uk