Contributing
Each series convenes ten companies, one to a specialism. Chairs are held by invitation: we research an industry, identify the people who lead each discipline within it, and invite them. While a chair is held, that discipline is closed. One wrong chair devalues the other nine, so the series only works if every one of them is earned. The selection criteria for The Executive Search Ten are published.
Contributors give the series one directed shoot day, filmed at their own offices, and their candour. In return, their episode sits in the series alongside the nine peers who define their industry, and stays in the archive permanently.
A chair is held for the series, one company to each specialism, and its holder is offered it first when the next series opens. Every contributor approves every clip of themselves before it is used. One recut on their notes, and if it is still not right, nothing goes out and we come back and film it again.
Every episode is emailed to people across the industry who have asked to receive it, and to the people who buy from it. Each one is promoted to those same people, and the full series stays on YouTube.
Ten Chairs is contributor-funded and editorially curated. Contributors fund the production that features them; they do not decide who else is in the room, and a chair cannot be bought where an invitation hasn't been extended.
Apply for consideration.
A chair cannot be bought where an invitation has not been extended. If you lead a search company and believe you meet the selection criteria, apply here.
Every application is assessed the way every invitation is: against the same five criteria, from public record. Every applicant gets an answer.