Book a Call We work with investors across wellness and fitness to understand what each portfolio brand needs from its leadership team: where the bench is strong, where gaps could hold back the plan and when a targeted search could make the difference. Drawing on decades inside the sector, we bring operator instinct, people expertise and a clear view of talent across the market.
Why Investors Work With GSH We know wellness and fitness from the inside. Between us, we've spent decades leading multi-site operations, sales, customer experience, HR and people strategy; bringing separate businesses together; and building teams from the front line to the C-suite. We understand the realities portfolio companies face because we've worked through growth, change and the leadership decisions that come with both.
Combined with our experience as a specialist search firm, that gives us a clear view of what each stage of growth asks of its leaders, and of the talent available to meet that need. Help first, hunt second means we begin by understanding the business, then shape our support around it: mapping the market, building a pipeline or running a targeted search. Our engaged model delivers the reach of executive search through a more flexible fee structure that keeps the P&L in mind.
The GSH team took the time to truly understand our brand, our standards, and what makes someone a good fit at JETSET. Their process was thoughtful, collaborative, and relentlessly committed to getting it right. We couldn't be happier with the outcome.Bertus Albertse, CEO, JETSET Pilates
How We Help Portfolio Companies A founder-led business, an emerging multi-site brand and a scaled platform each need something different from their leaders. We understand what every stage of growth requires and help define the talent that can move the business forward.
We know who is actively looking, who could be open to the right opportunity and when talent from outside the sector could bring valuable new thinking. We can headhunt within wellness, draw on long-standing industry relationships or inspire people with transferable experience to bring their talent into the sector.
Our engaged model brings the focus and quality of executive search without requiring the full fee upfront. You retain the flexibility to consider people from your own network, benchmark them against the wider market and choose the strongest path forward, with a fee structure that respects the P&L.
Good To Know We help investors and management teams hire leaders who can navigate growth, professionalize a function, strengthen operations or prepare a business for its next stage. This can include appointments at Director, VP, President and C-suite level.
Our focus is wellness, fitness and adjacent consumer sectors. We have particular experience with founder-led, multi-site, franchise, subscription and growth-stage businesses where leadership decisions have a direct effect on performance and scale.
Yes. We can work across multiple portfolio companies and searches while keeping each mandate specific to the business, leadership team and investment thesis. Our engaged model can also be structured with repeat hiring across a portfolio in mind.
We can help when a leadership need first becomes clear, even before the role has been fully defined. Early conversations allow us to understand the commercial context, assess the talent market and help shape a realistic search brief. We're also happy to work in partnership to support your talent pipeline development.
We look for a combination of strong resumes, proven results, and leadership performance. Our structured interviews explore what candidates have built, the environments in which they have performed, how they lead, and whether their experience matches the company's priorities and stage of growth.
Yes. We understand that leadership changes, succession planning and newly created positions can be sensitive. We agree how the opportunity should be represented and manage outreach and candidate communication carefully throughout the search.
No. Many of the strongest leaders are not applying for roles. We combine targeted headhunting with long-standing relationships to reach the wider talent market, including people who may only consider a move for the right opportunity.
Work with usWhether one company needs a pivotal hire or you're strengthening leadership across several businesses, bring the context and Matt will help you think through the priorities.
