Executive search and leadership development with purpose.

For businesses that treat sustainability as strategy.
We place sustainability leaders who don’t just fit the brief, they shape your business for a better future.

Mis-hired senior leaders cost more than time.
It slows momentum. It damages trust. You need someone who brings focus, alignment, and long-term value.

Experienced sustainability leader in conversation in a modern office setting, symbolising the calibre of executives placed through Search With Purpose’s specialist executive search services.

Let’s find and develop the leader your future needs.

Right people. Right roles. Right reasons.

Executive
Search

Make the right leadership hire

The
Academy

Develop emerging leaders.

Team Assessments

Understand your existing team in depth.

Thrive
Consulting

Senior sustainability advice and interim support.

This isn’t about filling a vacancy. It’s about finding the right leader, for now, and for what comes next.

Tired of generic shortlists, or handling it all in-house?

In-House
Recruitment

  • Siloed views
    across departments

  • No clear sense of what
    ‘good’ looks like

  • Reactive hiring,
    not the best-fit talent

Large
Firm Recruitment

  • The person you meet
    doesn’t run the search

  • Generic shortlists,
    transactional feel

  • Often needs multiple
    rounds to get it right

Our people stay, thrive, and catalyse change.

Search
With Purpose

  • Led by Fern with Knowledge and depth

  • Focused on alignment, not just availability

  • Research-led and highly tailored

You deserve a search that leads to more than a hire.

Fern Freeman, founder of Search With Purpose, smiling while writing in a notebook at a cosy café table—reflecting her thoughtful, human approach to sustainability-focused executive search.

Leadership, with purpose.

“I care deeply about every placement— because the right leader can create value for the company while respecting the limits of our planet.”

  • Every leadership journey starts with a conversation — with Fern

  • 15+ years of executive search experience

  • Intentionally focuses on a small number of sustainability searches at a time

  • Every search is intentional, considered, and fully aligned

TRUSTED BY

EQT

Net Positive / Paul Polman

Teneo

Actis

Eurazeo

Johnson Matthey

Ovo

PAI Partners

Polymateria

EQT Net Positive / Paul Polman Teneo Actis Eurazeo Johnson Matthey Ovo PAI Partners Polymateria

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Because who you hire shapes what comes next.
Let’s find the person who’ll shape your business for a better future, with purpose.