Providing creative industry leaders and boards with strategic insights & executive search services.

Underpinning our work are the foundation stones of: Confidentiality, Candidate Care and Industry Consultation.

REA has a creative, values-driven approach to search which identifies candidates who reflect the needs and cultures of our clients.

We are not a volume business. We are specialists who undertake select searches for organisations that inspire us, and for positions which we think are critical within the artistic community to further their cultural artform and serve the public.

We seek to place exceptional leaders that inspire progress and build enthusiastic communities inside and outside their organisations, enabling our clients to realise value and long-term growth opportunities.

Diversity and inclusion principals and actions are embedded in all that we do, and the team you meet is the team who will deliver for you.

We focus on quality, and we are passionate about the sector, caring deeply about the artists, practitioners, organisations and communities that we ultimately serve.

We have a flexible process tailored to individual client’s needs, and as a respected and sensitive cultural brand, we are acutely focussed on being excellent ambassadors for the clients who entrust us with representing their organisation to the candidate field.

How searches are managed and led and how the multitude of people contacted during a search (as sources, references, potential candidates, and actual candidates) feel about the way they are treated, can be as critical to a successful search as the eventual outcome. 

We have genuine and deep relationships with the national cultural sector and business leaders, forged through decades of personal and professional relationships. We are experts in helping boards, selection panels and creative leaders think critically about their role, both in key competencies and cultural fit.

Managing the process in an open, fair, respectful, and responsive way is the way we do business. All candidates are treated with the utmost respect, confidentiality, and kept up to date with their place in the recruitment process.

As a candidate engaging with REA we understand applying for roles can be an exciting and vulnerable process. We pride ourselves on treating people with respect and discretion, and support you throughout the process.

A cornerstone of REA’s process is the ability to conduct the search in a manner which ensures your company and the wider industry feels heard and consulted. 

Over the course of the search project, our approach includes detailed candidate packs, extensive industry engagement; individual assessment against the key selection criteria; application and interview briefings; robust personalised candidate interviews and detailed reference checks.

REA values diversity in ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, language, religion, socio economic status, political persuasion, experience and education. 

Diversity is at the core of everything we do. 

We believe in providing our clients with the opportunity to select candidates based on merit and achievement, irrespective of their backgrounds.

In seeking the best for our clients, and by applying our rigorous search methodologies, we embrace a wide cross section of candidates ensuring diversity is understood and respected.