Executive search
DP [On]™
Strategic executive mobility
Recruit right. Integrate effectively. Clarify executive trajectories.
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executive search
An executive appointment is never simply a vacancy to fill. It requires clarity on the real mandate, the decision-making context, the friction points that arise on integration, and the conditions under which a leader can create lasting impact.
DP [On]™
Onboarding Diagnostic & Performance
Measure whether a hire translates into lasting performance: probation exits, resignations before twelve months, productivity loss, hidden costs and early indicators of onboarding failure.
strategic executive mobility
For senior executives at a career inflection point
Scyllage helps senior leaders clarify where they stand, where they can create value and how to approach the next stage with credibility.
recruit right
An executive search involves more than filling a vacancy. It involves a real mandate, key stakeholder relationships, team dynamics and the conditions under which a leader can genuinely perform.
Scyllage works upstream of search mandates to clarify the actual need, define the conditions for success and ensure alignment between the role, the environment and the behavioural profile required.
integrate effectively
DP [On]™ measures the actual effectiveness of onboarding: probation exits, resignations before twelve months, early attrition, productivity loss and hidden costs.
Used at board and executive-committee level, it reveals managerial and organisational friction. Before a search mandate, it also helps understand what the departure or poor integration of a senior leader reveals about the underlying organisational context.
clarify trajectories
Strategic executive mobility is not a standard job search. The point is not to be more visible, but to become clearer and more credible, more selective and better prepared.
Scyllage helps senior leaders clarify where they can create value, structure evidence of impact, prioritise target roles and prepare targeted conversations with the right decision-makers, through a selective collective programme or premium 1:1 work.
where Scyllage intervenes
executive decisions that matter
Scyllage is engaged when the decision goes beyond execution: hiring a senior leader, managing a leadership transition, assessing organisational friction or clarifying strategic executive mobility.
discernment
Discernment means reading the situation before recommending a course of action: real context, power dynamics, weak signals, execution constraints, human risk and the trade-offs that must be acknowledged and managed. Scyllage helps distinguish what belongs to the profile, the role, the management system or the organisation's timing.
common situations
- Defined mandate: accelerating growth, transforming an organisation, restoring performance, securing integration or opening a market
- Confidential or high-stakes executive search
- Clarifying the mandate scope before commitment
- Risk of poor integration or role mismatch
- Decisions requiring objective grounding before presentation to a CEO, board, executive committee or internal sponsor
areas of practice
Executive search, DP [On]™, social and organisational diagnostics and strategic executive mobility are distinct topics, yet often linked by the same question: where lasting value can be created, under what conditions, and at what cost to the organisation and its people? Scyllage works at the intersection of these disciplines.
services
- Executive search for senior leaders and key functions
- DP [On]™ - onboarding performance
- Social and organisational diagnostics and social audit
- Strategic executive mobility
- GRI™ contextual behavioural reading
European footprint
Scyllage works with European companies when human decisions affect performance, integration, execution quality or the direction of a leadership team. This European footprint helps address multicultural contexts and cross-functional or group-wide roles. It is supported by a network of local partners across Europe.
contexts
- SMEs, mid-market companies, international groups and European subsidiaries
- Multi-country, multi-site or cross-border transformation contexts
- Purchasing, supply chain, finance, commercial, marketing, innovation, R&D, operations and general management functions
- Leadership transitions, acquisitions to integrate, reorganisations, carve-outs or internationalisation
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Purchasing savings generated in year one by profiles recruited by Scyllage, in €m
selected clients
sgd pharma
sgd-pharma.com
tarkett
tarkett.com
bic
bicworld.com
itron
itron.com
adova group
adova-group.com
territoria mutuelle
territoria-mutuelle.fr
danone
danone.com
corsair
flycorsair.com
lagardère travel retail
lagardere-tr.com
solina
solina.com
mumm perrier-jouët
perrier-jouet.com
rémy cointreau
remy-cointreau.com
tereos
tereos.com
buffalo grill
buffalo-grill.fr
sodexo
sodexo.com
la banque postale
labanquepostale.fr
axa
axa.fr
maif
maif.frWhat clients say
read our client testimonials"Jean-Michel builds alongside you, challenges assumptions, sharpens your thinking and frames the work with demanding precision. His 4-D methodology brings genuine strategic clarity to a career trajectory."
Loïc Jaegert-Huber
Chief Executive Officer, ENGIE North Africa
"Demanding when the situation calls for it, he knows how to challenge certainties, expose blind spots and refuse shortcuts."
Cyrille Desbazeille
Chief Procurement Officer, Franke
"What I value the most among Jean-Michel's contributions is how he acts as if he were actually working within our organisation."
Joseph Tapiero
Purchasing & Supply Chain Director, Elior France
"You leave with a clearer sense of your direction, a more accurate articulation of what you bring, and better-calibrated expectations."
Stefano Sciotti
Vice President International Operations & CCO, Samsic Assistance
Scyllage
40 rue du Colisée
75008 Paris, France
get in touch
company contact
Jean-Michel T. Lorenzi
Founder & Managing Partner, Scyllage
strategic executive mobility
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