High-Context Search · People & Talent Advisory
Build the organization you actually need.
For critical hires, I go beyond the job description. I map the organizational context, capability gap, required outcomes, and evidence of relevant work before taking a search to market.High-Context Search for consequential leadership and critical-capability hires, grounded in what the organization actually needs the person to make possible.
Two ways to work together
Search when the answer is a person. Advisory when the question comes first.
Both begin with the same discipline: understand what the business must accomplish, what capability exists, what is missing, and which intervention will close the gap.
Primary · High-Context SearchRetained search for consequential leaders and critical-capability hires where the stakes, complexity, or ambiguity demand more than a recycled job description.
Secondary · People & Talent AdvisorySenior diagnosis, strategy, organization and workforce design, capability planning, M&A diligence, TA strategy, and AI/workforce transformation. This is not outsourced HR execution.
Underlying research · SusanResearch into how expertise forms and how capability can be understood from evidence of real work. It strengthens the method; it is not a competing client service.
Why Darla
A recruiter’s eye. An operator’s perspective.
I built the People function at JetZero while the company prepared to scale its workforce, production capability, and manufacturing footprint. That work reminded me how much I love being inside the problem: working across the business to build the organization and human capability required to make an ambitious plan real.
Across more than 20 years in recruiting and People leadership, I have helped startups, public companies, and mission-driven organizations build leadership teams and the operating infrastructure required to grow. Today I lead High-Context Searches and advise leaders through consequential organization and workforce decisions.
Why work with DarlaIndustrial operating experience
Earlier technology and mission-driven work
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