Louise Archer
Founder @Retrained Search
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Founder @Retrained Search
Manchester, GB
The contingent permanent recruitment model is unpredictable. It causes unreliable forecasts, creates master/slave client relationships and demotivates talented consultants.So why don\'t recruitment agencies do more work on a retained basis?Usually, they lack the internal capability, and there hasn\'t been any consistently effective, accessible training available.Until Now.I have developed a highly engaging, interactive training programme which teaches contingent recruiters how to sell and deliver retained search. And IT WORKS.As well as generating sales of retained projects straight away, it will give you the foundation on which to build a successful search division, team or brand and the platform to develop other strategic services such as Talent Pipelining and Insight Studies.Find out more, see what our clients say and come and talk to us at:
ABOUT LOUISE ARCHER
I help recruitment founders and search firm leaders transform their businesses; commercially, operationally and culturally, so they win high-value retained work, deliver it with confidence, and build a predictable growth engine that scales.After a career spanning contingent recruiting, executive search, leadership roles, and navigating several transactions, I realised the industry was missing something fundamental: a clear, teachable, repeatable pathway for shifting from contingent transaction-hunting to true retained search and advisory work.So I built it.Today, through Retrained Search, Search Foundations, and Search Mastery, I work with more than 400 recruitment founders around the world. I show them how to: • Sell and win retained searches consistently • Deliver searches using a structured, de-risked methodology • Build MPC and BD engines that generate predictable pipeline • Strengthen client control, pricing, and commercial confidence • Create service lines beyond search; intel, advisory, mapping • Apply EOS-style operating models to run better, stronger businesses • Shift identity from recruiter → partner → advisor My work blends strategic advisory, commercial problem solving, behaviour change coaching, and IP creation. I specialise in helping founders implement real systems, not theory. Every framework I teach is battle-tested in the live market through hundreds of firms.What I’m known for: • Direct, practical guidance that gets results • Deep expertise in retained search and delivery excellence • Commercial clarity and confidence building for founders • Creating frameworks, templates and systems people can actually use • A community that is supportive, generous and genuinely transformativeIf you’re building, or rebuilding, a retained search firm and want a clear path to higher fees, better clients, and a better life, I’d love to connect.
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