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Add strategy expertise where you need it
When a major strategic question needs more attention than the standing team can give it, organizations can bring in interim strategy leaders and experts to take on work such as a strategy reset, market assessment, growth plan, or portfolio review. They can build the fact base, pressure-test options, and turn the analysis into clear recommendations and priorities.
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“2026 High-End Independent Talent Report.” Heidrick, April 2026 and “2026 Skills Index”, Heidrick, September 2026.
Strategy talent
Expertise built for complexity
Access senior strategy leaders and specialists for a defined mandate, leadership gap, or period of increased strategic work. Bring in an individual expert or a small team when the question requires complementary perspectives or capabilities.
Interim Chief Strategy Officers and senior strategy leaders
Lead enterprise or business unit strategy, provide continuity during a leadership transition, and guide senior teams through major strategic choices.
Corporate and business unit strategists
Shape strategic plans, assess options, develop business cases, and clarify where the organization should focus resources.
Growth, market, and portfolio strategy experts
Evaluate markets, adjacencies, customer opportunities, and portfolio choices to identify and prioritize paths to growth.
Why Heidrick
Match expertise to the decision
Our work across industries, functions, and executive leadership gives us a broad view of the strategic choices organizations face and the experience each one requires. At Heidrick, we apply that perspective to connect clients with senior strategy leaders and experts who can sharpen the thinking, test assumptions, and translate analysis into clear recommendations and priorities.
Put strategic rigor behind big decisions
Assess new paths to growth
Entering a new market, expanding into an adjacency, or pursuing a new business model requires a clear view of the opportunity and its risks. Strategy experts can size the market, assess competitors and customers, and build the case for where and how to invest.
Reset strategy as conditions
A shift in customers, competitors, technology, or market economics can challenge the assumptions behind an existing strategy. Interim strategy leaders and experts can reassess the fact base, test alternative paths, and help leadership set clear priorities for what comes next.
Make sharper portfolio investment choices
Portfolio reviews can force difficult choices about where to invest, hold, reposition, or exit. Experienced strategy leaders and experts can evaluate performance and market potential, compare strategic options, and give decision-makers a stronger basis for allocating capital and resources.
Define where AI can create business value
AI can create a wide field of possible investments without making the priorities obvious. Strategy experts can identify the most relevant use cases, assess their economic and operating implications, and help leaders decide where AI warrants investment and attention.
Lead the strategy agenda through a transition
A departure at the head of strategy can leave major planning and decision processes without clear ownership. An interim Chief Strategy Officer or senior strategy leader can lead the agenda, advise the executive team, and provide continuity while the organization determines its longer-term leadership needs.
Get the strategy expertise you need
Bring in experienced strategy leaders and experts for the decisions that will shape where your business invests, competes, and grows.