FILMED INTERVIEW SERIES · LONDON

The ten people who run an industry.
The same questions.
On the record.

Each series seats ten leaders of one industry and asks them what everyone else is asking quietly: what's under threat, what's changing, and who's right.

NOW · THE EXECUTIVE SEARCH TEN · FILMING LONDON 2026
EXPLORE THE SERIES
The open chair, on the Ten Chairs set
THE SERIES, IN BRIEF

Every Ten Chairs series seats ten people who lead a single industry, one chair to a specialism. Each episode puts one question to all ten and sets the answers side by side: where they agree, where they differ, and what that says about where their world is going. At the end of the year it becomes the Annual Report, the industry's year, written from the inside. Every episode is distributed digitally across the industry it convenes, and every season remains on the public record, in full.

THE SERIES

New series coming soon. Currently filming.

Executive search films first. Wealth management and law follow. Three more industries are in planning now.

The Executive Search Ten, in the studio
TEN CHAIRS
SEASON ONE · FILMS LONDON 2026 · NOW CONVENING
The Executive Search Ten
The people who decide who runs corporate Britain: ten company founders, one to each discipline, from Board & NED to Private Equity & Portfolio, answering Season One's questions on the record.
FROM THE SEASON'S QUESTIONS
“AI is coming for executive search. What are you actually doing about it?”
THE FULL SEASON →
The Wealth Management Ten, in the studio
TEN CHAIRS
SEASON ONE · 2026–27 · CONVENING, INVITATIONS EXTENDING
The Wealth Management Ten
The people Britain's money calls first: ten founders, from family office to next-gen advisory, on where wealth is moving and who it will trust next.
FROM THE SEASON'S QUESTIONS
“Does the next generation want your company, or just your licence?”
THE SERIES PAGE →
The Legal Ten, in the studio
TEN CHAIRS
ANNOUNCED · SEASON ONE 2027 · CONVENING OPENS LATE 2026
The Legal Ten
Ten founders of Britain's independent law firms, from disputes to private client, on what clients will still pay for when the machines do the drafting.
FROM THE SEASON'S QUESTIONS
“What does the billable hour buy in 2030?”
THE SERIES PAGE →
PLANNING NOW
The Corporate Finance Ten
The dealmakers of the mid-market, on where the money moves next.
PLANNING NOW
The Architecture Ten
The practices shaping what Britain builds, on the decade ahead.
PLANNING NOW
The Accountancy Ten
The independent firms beyond the Big Four, on what the profession becomes.
The finale: all ten chairs, one room
THE FINALE

Every season closes with all ten in one room.

One table, the season's open questions, and the portrait of the year's ten.

THE ANNUAL REPORT

The year in an industry,
written from the inside.

Once a year, each series closes its season in writing. Not a marketing report: the record of what ten people who run the industry said, on camera, when the same questions were put to all of them.

IWhat changed this year, and who called it early
IIThe questions the ten could not agree on
IIIThe survey: what the wider profession thinks
IVPredictions for the year ahead, on the record

The first edition, Executive Search 2026, publishes at the close of Season One. Free to the industry.

ABOUT THE ANNUAL REPORT →
The Annual Report: Executive Search 2026, hardbound
WHEN IT AIRS

Know the moment Episode 1 airs.

Each episode as it publishes, with the season's question and what the ten said. Kept, in full, on the Ten Chairs channel on YouTube.

Contributing

Seats are held by invitation, one company to a specialism; when a seat is taken, that discipline closes for the season. If you lead a company in one of our industries and believe you should be in the room, tell us which chair is yours and why.

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