Leadership Search for Industries That Build.
We find and assess the senior leaders who shape business performance across mining, infrastructure, defence and diversified industries.
From operational and functional leadership through to divisional executives, CEOs and boards, we understand the people and environments that make these businesses work.
Every search is retained, exclusive and led personally by the partner you engage.
Experience. Outcomes. Accountability.
95%
of leaders placed in the past two years remain in the role.
7 in 10
mandates come from repeat clients or referrals.
2000+
senior appointments across our principals’ careers.
12 months
post-placement support and guarantee.
The outcome isn’t a shortlist. It’s confidence in the appointment.
The right appointment takes more than finding someone with the right experience. It requires an understanding of the business, the market, the demands of the role and the leadership capability needed to deliver.
We look beyond titles and CVs to identify people who can make a genuine difference.
Four things underpin our work.
Market Understanding
Knowing where the right people are, including those not actively looking for a move.
Industry Experience
Recognising the commercial, operational and cultural realities of the industries we serve.
Leadership Capability
Understanding what candidates have delivered, how they lead and what they can achieve.
Accountability
Standing behind our appointments and remaining personally involved well beyond the placement.
Appointment capability and industries
The leaders who make businesses work.
Our core focus is senior leadership appointments across the industries we know.
Our experience spans some of Australia's most demanding industries and operating environments.
From senior operational and project leadership through to executive and board appointments, we work on positions where the quality of the decision matters.
Mining & Metals
Mining, processing, projects and mining services - from site and functional leadership roles through to executive and board.
Infrastructure
Contractors, owners, engineering businesses and project organisations - from project leadership through to corporate.
Diversified Industrials
Engineering, manufacturing, services and other businesses where commercial performance depends on operational capability.
Defence
Leadership across shipbuilding, sustainment and major projects, drawing on experience built through complex assignments.
Our Approach
A different kind of search partner.
Every search is retained, exclusive and led personally by the partner you engage.
No handovers. Senior consultants conduct the research and speak to all candidates personally.
01. DEFINE
Understand the business, challenge the brief and establish what success looks like.
02. SEARCH
Map the market, engage the right people and assess leadership capability.
03.EMBED
Stay involved through the first 12 months and stand behind the appointment.
Our People and International Reach
TDN is built around the experience, relationships and judgement of its principals.
You work directly with the people responsible for your appointment, supported by our wider international search network.
Through the Global Executive Search Network, we extend our reach beyond Australia through trusted independent executive search partners.
What Our Clients Say
Trusted when the appointment matters. Most of our client relationships run well beyond a single search. Here’s why.
We know the sector. Close to two decades of executive search across mining and resources, infrastructure, industrials and defence.
We stay for the long haul. We are privileged to have long standing client relationships, ranging from eight years to well over a decade. We work hard to earn the trust and make client relationships longstanding.
“We needed a partner who understood the local market practice and could move quickly with an executive appointment. TDN made a confidential and complex cross-border process straightforward.”
President, Listed Mining Services Organisation
“Over eight years he became a highly trusted advisor on complex, business critical searches across domestic and international markets. He was instrumental in shaping our Australian executive team”
Head of HR, Australian Major Naval Program Shipbuilder
TDN Perspectives
Insights into the industries we serve, the leadership challenges they face and the markets shaping their future.
Thinking about an appointment?
If you are considering a senior appointment, changing a team structure or simply want an honest view of the market, talk to us.
It doesn't need to become a search.
Sometimes another perspective is useful in itself.
Considering a move?
You don't need to be actively looking.
We stay close to people across the industries we serve and have confidential conversations long before there is a specific role.
If something relevant comes up, we'll know where to start.