Ryan Pritchard · RPC
I work as an associate transition partner to recruitment agencies, head hunters and executive search firms — giving your placed leaders a structured, confidential 90-day programme that accelerates impact, avoids the classic derailers and protects the appointment you worked so hard to make.
18 years' experience · ICF European Masters Coach · Working with search partners across London, Thames Valley, Oxford, the Midlands and Manchester
~40%
of senior hires are judged a failure inside 18 months
10×
salary — the true cost of a failed executive appointment
90
days to establish credibility, or spend a year recovering it
1:1
confidential partner, from offer accepted to day 100
The problem
You assess for capability, track record and fit — and you get that right. What happens next is largely outside your control: the first ninety days inside a new system, with new politics, new expectations and no safe place to think out loud.
Technically excellent, politically isolated. The strategy is right and nobody follows it.
Momentum stalls, sponsors go quiet and the mandate quietly shrinks.
Replaying the previous playbook in an organisation that needs a different one.
The board is managed; the real power base is not.
Difficult people decisions delayed until they become expensive.
Nobody senior enough to be honest with, so blind spots stay blind.
For recruitment agencies & head hunters
RPC works as a discreet associate to your firm — an extension of your offer, not a competitor to it. You own the client. I make the appointment stick.
Guarantee periods, rebills and replacement searches are the most expensive thing on your P&L. A structured 90-day programme materially reduces the odds of an early exit.
Very few firms offer transition support as part of the mandate. Bundling RPC turns a search proposal into a leadership outcome proposal.
Ninety days of structured contact after the invoice keeps your firm present, useful and top of mind for the next mandate.
Candidates remember who backed them after the offer. That is where referrals and repeat placements come from.
Bundle into the fee, offer as a paid add-on, or reserve it for critical or at-risk appointments. Discreet, white-labelled if you prefer.
No process to run, no tooling to buy. I work directly with the leader and report at whatever level of visibility you and your client agree.
Value to your client
Value to your candidate
The programme
Days 1–30
Listen, map, diagnose.
Days 31–60
Choose the battles and win them.
Days 61–100
Own the agenda beyond day 100.
6
Sessions over 90 days
2 hrs
Each session, fortnightly
90
Days of structured support
The programme is six two-hour sessions, held fortnightly across the first three months. Sessions run virtual or in person, starting the moment the offer is accepted. Content stays confidential to the leader; progress reporting is agreed up front with you and the client.
What changes
Impact delivered sooner, with fewer expensive false starts
Political and cultural risk surfaced before it becomes a crisis
Stronger, faster team decisions in the window where they are cheap
A leader who is calmer, clearer and more resilient under scrutiny
Higher retention through the guarantee period and well beyond it
A demonstrable return on the client's investment in the hire
About Ryan
I'm Ryan Pritchard, founder of RPC. For eighteen years I have coached executives and senior teams through appointments, promotions, integrations and turnarounds — the transitions where the cost of getting it wrong is highest and the support available is usually lowest.
My work is boutique and deliberately tailored. No packaged curriculum, no generic competency model. Each engagement is built around the individual leader, the specific organisation they are walking into, and the mandate they have actually been given.
I've worked across private equity, banking, technology, fmcg, startups, global brands, hotels, manufacturing, media, marketing, education, construction, telecoms — with everyone from founder-led startups to global brands and private-equity portfolio businesses. That breadth matters: patterns of derailment repeat across sectors, and I've seen most of them.
For search firms, I sit quietly behind your brand. The relationship stays yours. My job is simply to make sure the leader you placed is still winning long after the guarantee period ends.
References
Verified LinkedIn recommendations from clients and colleagues across private equity, banking, aviation, technology and professional services.
“I was introduced to Ryan by a colleague following struggling with feelings of anxiety and confidence issues including imposter syndrome at work. We commenced a session of 1:1 coaching about 1 year ago.”
Adrian Haughton
Product Manager, Coventry Building Society
“I had the pleasure of meeting Ryan during a team exercise in 2023, which prompted me to engage in 1:1 management coaching with him. Ryan's wealth of experience was immediately apparent.”
Jacqui Bowers
Management coaching client
“I have worked with Ryan for just over 4 years, in two periods of private career coaching. He has absolutely transformed my view of myself, recognise the personal traits which are important to focus upon and develop, and also to accept the strengths which I routinely overlooked.”
Andrew Palin
Delivery Lead, Coventry Building Society
“I first met Ryan over a year ago when I joined Verder in 2023. Initially the setting was as part of a wider group meeting and it quickly became obvious that Ryan's ability to hold the attention of the group, whilst being sensitive to different personalities and needs, was first class.”
Mark Kyte
Head of UK Sales
“Ryan has been invaluable as a leadership coach to me over the past year. I always looked forward to our sessions and appreciated that Ryan would adapt to support me in the challenges I was facing at a given time. Thoroughly professional and always pleasant.”
Elaine Roche
CEO & Principal, SwiftBrook Consulting
“Ryan has an exceptional ability to unpack issues, plot a course and provide the guidance and skillset to allow you to take flight. His understanding of the interplay between the demands of consistently operating at a high level in Private Equity and at home in one's personal life is rare.”
Robert Murphy, CFA
Chief Risk Officer, Aviation
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If you place senior leaders, it's worth a twenty-minute conversation. I'll show you how transition coaching folds into your existing process, what it costs, and how it's positioned to your client.