Trusted Leaders in
Executive Search & Advisory.

We build great reputations.

We identify leaders who build stakeholder value and mitigate risk, enabling our clients to protect and enhance their company brand, reputation, and connection to customers.

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that, you'll do things differently"

WARREN BUFFETT

How we help.

We Identify Leaders.

Retained Executive Search

Executive Assessment

01

We Enable Success.

Function & Role Design

Fast Track Onboarding
Executive Offboarding

02

We Develop Leaders.

Individual & Team Performance Coaching

Succession Planning

03

Our focus.

We bring deep specialisation in identifying leaders for the functions that impact reputation, mitigate risk, build stakeholder value and customer connection.

  • Corporate & Public Affairs

  • Communications

  • Government & Regulatory Affairs

  • Investor Relations

  • General Counsel & Co Sec

  • ESG (Environment, Social & Governance)

  • Community Relations & Social Impact

  • Marketing Strategy

  • Corporate & Consumer Brand

  • Marketing Communications

  • Customer Strategy & Analytics

Who we work with.

Our values are inherent in the way we work. This promise allows us to be the best at what we do.

 

We represent clients and candidates globally, with a focus on the Australia, Asia region.


We service top ASX, SGX, HKEX, LSE, NASDAQ and leading private enterprises and governments globally.

 

As we ‘mind our clients’ business’ and maintain the confidentiality of the work we do together, you won’t find our client list here.

Why we are trusted.

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Credibility
Credibility

We bring an extensive global network that has been nurtured over 30 years as industry leaders in executive search & advisory.

Thought Leaders
Thought Leaders

We are thought leaders who bring executive insight and commercial acumen, gained from direct experience with Boards, CEOs, and Executives tackling global disruption, structural change, and intense competition.

Global Reach
Global Reach

We bring an established and refined network of international relationships, comprising of industry contacts, high calibre talent, and experienced strategic collaborations.

Repeat Clients
Repeat Clients

We are trusted partners to clients globally, with 99% of our engagements from repeat clients or referred from current or past clients.

Discretion
Discretion

We are accessible, yet discreet.

Our approach is underpinned by our values

Excellence | Integrity | Humanity | Intelligence

Knowledge sharing .

Our latest insights.

Who we are.

The strength of our reputation and the power of our network combine to provide our global reach and insights.

Anna Whitlam

CEO & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

WhitlamCo. was founded by Anna Whitlam in late 2023. Anna brings close to 30 years of international experience helping CEOs and boards build better reputations through people. She is widely recognised for her work in Asia-Pacific, and for designing C-Suite functions and securing ‘fit for purpose’ executives to lead them.

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Maria Dickson

OPERATIONS

Maria brings close to 30 years’ experience as an Executive Assistant at Senior Executive and Office Management level within blue-chip, high-profile corporates in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

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Our Collaborators.

Our global network includes established relationships with experienced strategic collaborators, who work in complete alignment with our Values, as a natural extension of our business.

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Catalysing High Performance Leaders. Collaborators in leadership assessment, coaching and team performance.
Australia, Asia and Europe

Laura Thomas

Collaborators in people and culture strategy, executive assessment, executive coaching and advice.
Australia

Say hello.

Get in touch to see how we can help.