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Spring Talent is a global executive search consultancy.

That means we start each search with an in-depth assessment of our clients’ teams, processes, and culture, then leverage those insights into inspired candidate placements and business strategies that help organizations prepare for what’s coming. Because leadership alone is not enough, the organization must evolve with it.

Executive Search

We partner with the world’s most influential brands to redefine leadership. Strategy is found in the deep alignment between talent, culture, and vision, moving beyond simple placements to build organizations that are resilient, innovative, and designed for global impact.

A Network
isn’t a strategy.

Commercial

Marketing & Communications

Digital & Tech

Merchandising

Creative

Operations

Finance

HR & Talent Acquisition

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Consult
& Define

Deep-dive client consultation and role scoping

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Search
& Identify

Tailored search strategy and insight-led talent identification

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Evaluate
& Assess

Rigorous candidate screening and curated presentations

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Engage
& Align

Interview coordination, candidate management, and regular client updates

5. Place
& Close

Offer management, negotiation, and successful placement

Consulting

Companies don’t fail because they lack strategy. They fail because they lack organizational alignment.

We drive the shift from fragmented to integrated, from slow to fast. It happens when talent, organization, communications, and technology are redesigned together.

Strategic framework for talent, organization, technology, transformation

Spring Talent offers a high-touch, highly personalized alternative to big-firm templates delivering actionable insights and strategic guidance across.

Future Talent Planning & Succession Strategy

Interim Talent Search Strategy

Job Description Development

Compensation & Benefits Advisory

Internal Communications & Employee Engagement

Recruitment Workshops / Interviewing Strategy

Leadership Assessment Strategy / Interpretation

Employer Branding Strategy

Onboarding

Talent

Organizational Design & Performance Assessment

Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

Market Intelligence & Talent Mapping

Board-Level Advisory

Sustainability & ESG Strategy

Strategy

New Product & Service Development

Digital & Emerging Technology Integration

Strategic Transformation & Growth

AI & Immersive Experiences

Business Model Evolution

Innovation

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Case Studies

Spring Talent successfully recruited a CEO for a Paris-based Creative Director–led luxury fashion brand, identifying a candidate with strong experience across Europe as well as the Chinese and Asia-Pacific markets. The individual demonstrated a nuanced understanding of both French and Chinese business cultures and the ability to work closely with the Creative Director Founder and his family, ensuring a seamless partnership at the highest level of leadership.

Spring Talent successfully recruited a Chief Merchandising Officer for the RTW division of a top global luxury fashion brand, which was generating over €8 billion in total revenue at the time. The ideal candidate required a rare combination of strong team leadership, extensive international experience, and expertise spanning both collection and retail merchandising within the most relevant brands and environments. Conducted as a highly confidential assignment, the search demanded exceptional discretion and precision where the Spring Talent team delivered throughout the process.

The team was introduced to the Founder of a fashion-tech startup in the AR Fashion-Tech space and led the successful recruitment of a CEO to oversee the company’s 12-person team. Spring Talent conducted a global search to identify a candidate combining corporate expertise and networks with entrepreneurial energy and startup experience, capable of scaling the business. The appointed CEO went on to strengthen the team and forge strategic partnerships with leading brands, including Foot Locker and Christian Louboutin.

Spring Talent was engaged to identify a Chief Commercial Officer for a Europe-based fashion brand. Within just two months, the team successfully placed a top-tier candidate and continued to partner closely with the new CCO to build the commercial leadership team, placing a Country Manager and Retail Manager for Benelux, as well as a Country Manager and Retail Manager for Italy/Spain. Subsequently, the CEO entrusted Spring Talent with the recruitment of a Creative Director, a role filled within three months by a highly acclaimed talent sourced from Amsterdam.

Spring Talent collaborated with a top global luxury group to recruit a Global Group SVP Supply Chain & Logistics. The team identified a leading candidate based in Hong Kong and successfully relocated him to Europe for the role. Spring Talent also placed a Head of Sustainable Innovation for the Watch & Jewelry division, alongside multiple other strategic appointments at both the group and individual brand levels.

A leading European luxury furniture design group engaged Spring Talent to recruit a CFO, COO, and CPO for one of their US-based brands. Spring Talent successfully placed all three executives quickly, collaborating closely with the brand’s CEO and the Group HR Director in Europe. In addition, we placed an entrepreneurial American leader who partnered directly with the Owner/Founder to establish a group-level digital team from scratch in Milan as the Group Chief Digital Officer.

Spring Talent partnered with a Swiss-based luxury beauty business with spas in London and Dubai, catering to high-net-worth clients with exceptional VIP service. We successfully placed a Global CFO, who split time between Dubai and Zurich, secured significant funding, led M&A initiatives, and optimized capital structures for new market entry, driving substantial revenue growth in a short period. In addition, Spring Talent placed a Finance Director in London, a Global Marketing Director based in Geneva/Zurich, and a London-based Marketing Director, strengthening the company’s leadership across both finance and marketing functions.

Spring Talent partnered with a leading Italy-based accessories brand on a talent mapping project, identifying key examples of the most appropriate top-level talent at Creative Director, Design Director, and Senior Designer levels. The engagement supported the client in evaluating and restructuring their current creative team. As part of the process, Spring Talent provided a detailed assessment of the existing team and structure, along with a market analysis of compensation and benefits packages needed to attract top-tier creative talent.

Our Team

Amanda Spring

Founder & Owner

Amanda brings over 20 years of international executive search and consulting experience, having co-founded an executive search firm Talent 05 in Milan, Paris, London, and New York, and having set up offices and teams as Managing Partner of Janou Pakter’s search and consulting business in Europe and abroad. Over the course of her career, she has placed senior executives and collaborated closely with the world’s top three luxury groups, as well as with private-equity backed companies like Ganni, and leading beauty and consumer groups and brands such as Inditex, Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Nike, and Apple. She has also guided many emerging startups and family businesses in their growth, placing top members of their teams and helping them to expand their businesses internationally and into new product categories. Having lived in New York, London, Paris, Milan and Amsterdam, and worked on search and consulting projects across North America, APAC, the Middle East and Europe, Amanda possesses a rare fluency in cultural adaptability and the psychology of international leadership. Her background in luxury, fashion, advertising and creative services – including the strategic development of photographer Mario Testino’s agency – gives her an exceptional eye for both executive and creative talent.

Art Zuijderwijk

Innovation & Transformation Consulting

Art is a senior commercial and creative leader with over 20 years of experience across luxury, fashion, and emerging digital businesses. He possesses a rare ability to bridge brand vision with modern operating capabilities, leveraging AI, digital commerce, and immersive experiences to help companies evolve. Earlier in his career, Art held executive leadership roles at Replay, Levi Strauss & Co., and Diesel, where he led international teams across marketing, sales, retail, and operations with full P&L responsibility. He led brand repositioning, market expansion, and operational transformation initiatives across Europe and the US. He supported Stitch, the digital wholesale platform developed within PVH, advising leadership on strategic repositioning and product direction. He also worked with Loro Piana to digitize its textile archive and develop a mobile B2B platform. Finally, he worked with cultural institutions such as ADI Design Museum and Treccani on digital transformation projects. Today at Spring Talent, Art helps leadership teams harness the tools of tomorrow without losing the taste and judgment that define great brands today.

Roberta Guinzoni

Strategic Transformation Leader

Roberta Guinzoni is a strategic transformation leader and trusted advisor to CEOs, founders, and executive teams, with extensive experience across founder-led organizations, private equity-backed companies, high-growth scale-ups, and listed corporations. Throughout the course of her career, she has worked as Chief People Officer and HR, Talent and Organizational Director and for established companies such as Ganni, Flying Tiger, Pandora and the previous Walgreens Boots Alliance. Currently completing Executive Education at INSEAD in the Chief Strategy Officer program, Roberta strengthens her expertise in strategic decision-making, organizational transformation, and long-term value creation, further reinforcing her ability to act as a Executive partner and fractional Chief of Staff and Chief People Officer for high-impact organizations.

Irina Muravieva

Senior Director, Executive Search & Innovation Consulting

Based in London, Irina leads executive search and consulting projects at Spring Talent across all organizational levels, with particular expertise in commercial and innovation led-mandates. Her career spans a total of 18 years in retail and consulting – including eight years with Harrods, where she managed brand and retail operations across Womenswear and Accessories categories, followed by a role with Theory as Retail Director Europe. A Lecturer at Istituto Marangoni in Fashion Business, Innovation and Economics, Irina brings a rare combination of operational excellence, strategic leadership, and a genuine passion for building great consumer businesses.

Sojourner Morrell

Senior Creative Search & Sustainability Consultant

Sojourner brings a uniquely compelling combination of experiences to Spring Talent — five years as a Sustainability Analyst for Gruppo Sanpellegrino and Venchi, alongside a career as a fashion model working with Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, and Tom Ford. Sojourner has a degree in Economics, Green Management, Energy, and CSR from Università Bocconi and studied economics at New York University and Hunter College. Fluent in French, English, Italian, and German, she leads creative search projects and consults on sustainability and ESG strategy for Spring Talent clients.

Julie Schulenburg

Senior Executive Search & Operations Consultant

Julie brings a distinctive blend of M&A advisory and international executive search experience. Prior to Spring Talent, she consulted for Helvia Partners in Lugano, Switzerland, and spent 4 years with PRAXI worldwide executive search consultancy, leveraging a global network of executive search firms across 38 countries. American by origin and Milan-based for over a decade, Julie speaks fluent Italian and holds degrees in International Economics and Finance from Università Bocconi and Dominican University of Chicago.

Alaa Othman

Search Consultant

Alaa is a Search Consultant and Researcher at Spring Talent, specializing in projects with a strong emphasis on digital and technology areas of the business. She previously worked in content strategy and digital engagement, focused on online research, audience targeting, and data-driven talent outreach. Alaa holds a Master’s degree in Management Engineering, with specialization in Digital Business Innovation from Politecnico di Milano, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Systems from Cairo.