For private equity
Rigorous assessment across the whole portfolio, from the CEO to the controller.
Every seat covered.One bar across the portfolio.The advisor, in-house.
US private equity spends $1–5B a year recruiting executives, and in over 70% of transactions replaces someone in the C-suite. The deal team runs a full diligence stack. The talent team is usually one person, underwriting the biggest driver of returns.
The math on a single decision.
What one decision costs today
An external leadership assessment, per hire, every time, lands as a PDF that connects to nothing. Enterprise value lost to one mis-hire: $10–20M.
With Team Theory
Scorecards in fifteen minutes, not two hours. Assessment reports halved. The same bar on every decision. 100% of roles covered, against roughly 15% today.
“Every scorecard I've created in the last three months has been through Team Theory. It's gone from two hours to 15 minutes.”
— Managing Director, Talent
$17B AUM · 175 portfolio companies
Three things change.
Every seat gets covered, from the C-suite to the controller.
Land at the fund for C-suite hires; extend into the portfolio companies for VP and director roles, on the same system and the same bar.
Proof
One operating partner with no talent team ran six senior hires in two quarters across thirteen companies from a single seat: a CEO, a CRO, a CPO, a CFO and two controllers.
One bar across the portfolio.
Searches become comparable, and the hiring standard becomes something the firm owns rather than something it re-sources each time.
Proof
A $19B fund with a 13-person talent team encoded its hiring rubric into six firm-wide workflows, authored once for everyone.
The advisor, in-house.
An evidence-grounded leadership assessment in a day, with a read that pushes back when the evidence says otherwise.
Proof
A two-person talent team covering 175 portfolio companies cut assessment-report time roughly in half and scorecards from two hours to fifteen minutes.
A Tuesday with Team Theory.
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