As specialists in Sport, Entertainment and Leisure, we combine Executive Search, Leadership Advisory and deep sector expertise to help organisations address complex leadership and performance challenges..
Executive Search & Leadership Advisory
Sport - Entertainment - Leisure
Whether appointing a key leader, strengthening an executive team, preparing for succession or navigating transformation, we step in when the stakes are high and leadership decisions have a direct impact on organisational performance.
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WHO WE ARE
SBT Executive is an international boutique consultancy specialising in Executive Search and Leadership Advisory.
Our collective brings together executive search professionals, former executives and sector specialists with first-hand experience of the environments we serve.
OUR APPROACH
We help organisations align leadership, teams and governance to strengthen execution and deliver sustainable performance.
Combining Executive Search, Leadership Advisory and deep sector expertise, we address complex leadership, organisational and transformation challenges with a practical understanding of the realities our clients face.
Identify, assess and secure leaders capable of delivering lasting impact.
Reduce leadership risk, strengthen governance and secure critical leadership decisions.
Align leadership, teams and organisations to accelerate sustainable performance.
Our Framework
Some situations require more than a traditional search assignment or a standalone intervention. When a leadership appointment is critical, an executive team needs realignment or a transformation is underway, we help decision-makers clarify the challenge before taking action.
→ Decision Sprint™ :Determine whether a leadership hire is needed, define the mandate and identify the right course of action.
→ Leadership System Diagnostic™: Identify the leadership, governance and organisational factors limiting performance and establish clear priorities for action.
Once the challenge has been clarified, we activate the most appropriate lever: attracting the right leaders, securing critical leadership moments or transforming organisational performance for the long term.
Once the challenge has been clarified, we activate the approach best suited to the situation.
Behind every growth trajectory, transformation programme or turnaround, there is first and foremost a leadership decision.
What We Believe
What We Believe
We hold a simple belief: sustainable performance is always rooted in human decisions.
In Sport, Entertainment and Leisure, where visibility, pressure and emotional intensity are particularly high, those decisions often become defining moments for organisations.
What We See
Whether appointing a leader, preparing for succession, strengthening governance, leading a transformation or improving team alignment, people remain both the greatest driver of success and the greatest source of risk.
Our Approach
These challenges rarely concern one individual alone. They affect leaders, teams and organisations as a whole.
This reality has shaped our approach to leadership and performance.
Our Team
To address these challenges, we draw on a collective of executives, sector specialists and experienced practitioners who have operated within the very environments we serve.
Our role is to help organisations make the right people decisions when they matter most.
We advise leaders and organisations through critical moments of change : identifying the leaders who can accelerate their growth and strengthening their long-term impact.
Bridging these two capabilities, our signature programme, SBT Leadership Shift™, supports organisations through the most critical leadership moments, including leadership transitions, succession, transformation and executive team realignment.
Why This Approach?
In the environments we serve, performance rarely depends on a single decision or a single individual.
Appointing the right leader is essential. Equally important is creating the conditions for that leader to succeed, aligning the executive team and building the foundations for sustainable performance. This belief underpins our model.
The Role of SBT Leadership Shift™
Between Executive Search and Leadership Advisory, certain situations require a more tailored intervention: leadership transitions, succession, transformation, governance evolution or executive team realignment.
SBT Leadership Shift™ was designed to support these critical moments when leadership, organisational and human challenges converge.
How We Work
We assess challenges at the level of the leader, the executive team and the organisation to identify the factors most critical to success.
What Sets Us Apart
Our collective brings together executive search professionals, former executives, sector specialists and leadership practitioners with first-hand experience of the environments we serve.
Identify, assess and secure the leaders who can accelerate your next stage of development.
Strengthen the long-term impact of leaders, executive teams and governance.
“ENGAGE” : Aligning leaders, teams and governance.
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“DEVELOP” : Strengthening leadership impact and performance.
Explore Our “Leadership Impact & Performance”approach
“PREPARE” : Preparing for critical transitions and future leadership.
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Some situations require more than a recruitment process or a standalone programme. The Shift helps organisations diagnose the situation, clarify priorities and mobilise the right expertise around a single action plan.
SBT Leadership Shift™ provides the space to step back, gain clarity and activate the capabilities best suited to the challenge at hand.
A Systemic Leadership Framework:
Two Intervention Contexts
Why the Shift?
When a transformation loses momentum, an executive team becomes fragmented or a succession process grows increasingly sensitive, the challenge rarely stems from a single decision.
More often, it reflects a broader misalignment between governance, leadership, organisation and execution.
SBT Leadership Shift™ was designed to help organisations navigate and secure these complex situations.
A Systemic Approach
Following an initial assessment, we identify the factors most critical to success and activate the most relevant capabilities across the SBT Executive ecosystem.
Depending on the context, several programmes may be deployed simultaneously or sequentially to restore the conditions for effective execution.
Key Areas of Focus
Leadership & Executive Team Effectiveness
Governance & Decision-Making
Transformation & Execution
Succession & Leadership Continuity
Human Capital & Critical Roles
Our Role
To orchestrate the expertise best suited to the situation, restore alignment, secure critical decisions and bring execution back under control.
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SBT Executive supports executives, leadership teams and investors facing critical decisions related to leadership appointments, succession, organisational effectiveness and transformation.
Our distinctive approach combines two complementary areas of expertise: Executive Search and Leadership Advisory.
We draw on an international collective of executives, sector specialists and experienced practitioners with first-hand experience of the environments we serve.
Our Journey
SBT Executive was founded in Executive Search, serving the Sport, Entertainment and Leisure industries.
Over the years, one observation became increasingly clear: appointing the right leader does not always address the performance, governance or transformation challenges organisations face.
This reality led us to broaden our focus beyond recruitment to leadership, executive teams and organisational effectiveness.
Our Collective
We have brought together an international collective of executives, sector specialists and experienced practitioners selected for the breadth of their experience and their deep understanding of the environments we serve.
Their operational backgrounds provide a practical perspective on the challenges facing leaders and organisations today.
Our Ambition
To help organisations make the right people decisions when they matter most.
Our Collective
Our collective brings together former executives, sector specialists, leadership experts and Executive Search professionals with first-hand experience of the environments we serve.
This operational background enables us to approach complex challenges with perspective, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the realities on the ground.
Expertise Built Through Experience
Most of our partners have held leadership, governance or transformation roles within international organisations.
They understand the realities leaders face because they have experienced them first-hand.
A Diversity of Perspectives
Our collective brings together experts from Sport, Entertainment, Leisure and other demanding industries, including Media, Technology and Luxury.
This breadth of experience allows us to bring complementary perspectives to often complex leadership and organisational challenges.
A Shared Standard
Beyond their individual backgrounds, our partners share a common approach: understanding situations with precision, challenging assumptions when necessary and supporting organisations over the long term.
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Our Areas of Expertise
We support organisations across Sport, Entertainment and Leisure with their most important recruitment, leadership and transformation decisions.
Because we know these industries from the inside, we help our clients make the right people decisions when they matter most.
Why These Industries
Sport, Entertainment and Leisure share a common reality: highly visible environments where the quality of leadership has a direct impact on performance.
What Sets Us Apart
Most of our experts come from these industries. They understand their unique challenges, pace and governance dynamics.
Their experience is complemented by backgrounds in consulting, media, technology, transformation and luxury, bringing broader perspectives to complex leadership challenges.
What We Bring
This combination of sector expertise and cross-industry perspective enables us to help clients address three critical challenges:
Attracting key talent and leadership
Securing critical transitions and leadership decisions
Transforming teams and organisations for long-term success
We step in when people challenges become strategic business priorities.
Behind every industry are the people who bring it to life — leaders, experts and practitioners whose experience shapes our collective.
Trusted By
We support some of the most demanding organisations across Sport, Entertainment and Leisure.
International groups, governing bodies, rights holders, event organisers and organisations undergoing transformation.
Different contexts. One shared challenge: making the right people decisions at the right time.
Client Testimonials
The organisations we support operate in demanding environments where leadership decisions have a direct impact on performance.
Their experiences speak better than we ever could to the quality of the relationships we build and the impact of our work.
Strategic hiring, leadership transitions, governance evolution — some decisions benefit from an external perspective.
We support executives, leadership teams and investors at the moments when people decisions matter most.
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