Overview
Nick Parfitt is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ London office and leads the Assessment for Search strategy solution, focusing on leadership assessment, succession, and development. He helps organizations evaluate and benchmark internal successors and finalist candidates for CEO and C-suite roles. Nick is a member of the Consulting leadership team and the CEO & Board of Directors Practice, and works across all sectors, often in a private equity context.
Experience
Nick has more than 25 years of experience in talent and leadership advisory roles and has assessed hundreds of leaders for selection, development, and succession planning. He engages with client leaders in a coaching or team acceleration capacity after initially working with them in a leadership assessment context.
Nick’s extensive international experience includes living and working in the U.K., U.S., and Germany, and hashelped organizations assess their global leadership bench strength by managing consulting engagements across multiple countries.
Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Nick was a founding member of specialist assessment and development consultancy Cubiks, which spun out of PA Consulting Group through a management buy-out. He established the Cubiks U.S. operation in Chicago in 2011 and managed the team’s and client base’s expansion for the next six years. He relocated to the U.K. in late 2017 to lead international client development and complex assessment and development assignments.
As chief commercial officer, he was a member of the Cubiks executive team and board, which oversaw the sale of Cubiks to PSI Services (since rebranded as Talogy) in October 2019.
Nick is certified to use a broad range of assessment instruments and has worked with many organizations to develop customized leadership frameworks and accompanying diagnostic tools. His passion for identifying trends in assessment data helps guide future recruitment and leadership succession strategy. Nick has managed several assignments to identify the collective strengths and development areas of the client’s leadership cadre. He has appeared on BBC News and BBC Radio Five and has contributed to various radio business programs, as well as to The Times and the Financial Times.
Education
University of Swansea, First Class Honours Degree
Cardiff University, Postgraduate Diploma