RECRUITMENT CONSULTING
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at Every Stage of Growth
Lyle Alexander Consulting helps staffing, consulting, and professional services businesses build the teams that drive their growth.
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Recruitment Consulting
Strategic recruiting partner aligned to the growth of your business.
View servicesExecutive Search
Retained, contained, and contingent search for critical leadership hires in specialist markets.
Executive searchProject Solutions & Advisory
Strategic projects led by seasoned experts to enhance your strategy and workflow.
Advisory servicesIndustries We Serve
Built for the sectors that power modern work
Staffing & Recruiting
The industry we were built to serve.
We were founded to serve this industry. Staffing and recruiting has been one of the most quietly transformative forces in the global economy over the last forty years — driving social mobility, connecting talent to opportunity at scale, and providing the flexibility that has made modern labor markets work. It deserves to be served by businesses that understand its full impact and potential. That is who we build for.
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Talent expertise aligned to deliverables.
The shift from placing people to delivering outcomes changes everything — how you sell, how you staff, and how you protect margin. Solutions businesses that align their talent expertise with a genuine commitment to deliverables build something less commoditized and more enduring. We help you get the people and the workflows right to make that promise stick.
Learn More →Executive Search
The firms trusted with the most critical hires.
The firms trusted with the most critical and consequential leadership appointments are themselves led by people who understand what is at stake. Executive search is a high-trust, high-judgement profession — and the businesses that lead it deserve the same rigour applied to their own teams that they bring to every search they run. We are the partner that holds that mirror.
Learn More →Professional Services
From billing hours to delivering value.
Legal, accounting, advisory, and specialist professional services firms are navigating a fundamental shift — from billing hours to delivering value. The talent strategy has to move with it. That means effective succession planning, leadership development that takes strong practitioners to the next level, and hiring that brings in people who can grow alongside the firm and with it.
Learn More →Consulting Firms
Built on depth. Scaled through talent.
The best consulting firms are built on depth — deep expertise, rigorous methodology, and research-led thinking that earns client trust over time. But depth doesn't scale on its own. It requires leaders who can develop others, structures that don't depend on heroic individuals, and a talent engine that consistently attracts people capable of doing the work at the level your clients expect. That is what we help you build.
Learn More →IT Services
Bridge the commercial and the complex.
Technology services businesses win or lose on their ability to translate a client's need into a precise technical brief — and then hold that scope under pressure. The margin lives in disciplined delivery, and disciplined delivery requires sales and technical leaders who can bridge the commercial and the complex. We help IT services firms find and develop the people who can do both.
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Services built for services businesses
Executive Search
Critical leadership hires for staffing, consulting, and professional services firms.
Learn moreVendor Search & Selection
The market has changed radically — distinguishing between recruitment partners is a complex challenge. We cut through the sales pitches and run a structured selection process: requirements gathering, RFI, RFP, workshops, interviews, and negotiation. With an independent subject matter expert at the table.
Learn moreTalent Acquisition Outsourcing
Embedded recruiting capability as a fractional partner while you focus on clients.
Learn moreRecruiting as a Service
On-demand recruiting capacity, fully aligned with your brand and workflows.
Learn moreProject Solutions & Advisory
Straight-talking, practical advice on talent, structure, and growth.
Learn moreTalent Delivery Strategy
Design how work flows from client need to fulfilled assignment.
Learn moreEst. 2019
Lyle Alexander Consulting
65+
Years Founder Experience
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Thinking on talent & growth
Retained or Contingent? How to Choose.
Most firms will tell you one model is better. We do both — so we'll tell you the truth about when each one is the right call.
6 May 2026
The GC Index and the Wrong Hire
Why psychometric assessment reduces hiring risk — and why most firms still don't use it.
22 October 2025
What the Best Billers Actually Have in Common
After two decades recruiting in the talent industry, here's what separates the genuine top billers from everyone else.
30 September 2025