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Searchlight was built around a simple observation:
The most damaging hiring mistakes are not the obvious ones.
They’re the hires that looked right at the time.
Strong résumés. Confident interviews. Full alignment.
A year later, the role is reset.
Not because the person lacked talent — but because the decision process never exposed how they would actually operate under pressure, accountability, and change.
Most hiring systems are optimized to fill roles.
Searchlight exists to improve decisions.
Searchlight was founded by Chris Cornwall after more than two decades in executive search across healthcare, life sciences, and technology.
Over time, a pattern became clear:
Hiring failures rarely traced back to skill.
They traced back to decision quality.
Searchlight’s evaluation model was built to solve that problem — helping leadership teams make decisions that still look right long after the hire is made.
Searchlight partners with:
CEOs and founders
Private equity portfolio companies
Executive leadership teams
Talent leaders responsible for high-impact hires
Typically during moments when hiring stakes are unusually high:
Leadership transitions
Organizational scaling
Post-failure resets
New function buildouts
Searchlight partners with:
• CEOs and founders
• Executive leadership teams
• Private equity firms and portfolio companies
• Healthcare, life sciences, and technology organizations
Typically during moments of:
• Growth
• Transition
• Leadership change
• Post-failure reset
• Critical executive hiring
Where the cost of a wrong decision is high.
Searchlight does not operate as a traditional search firm.
We operate as a decision partner.
We help define success clearly, evaluate candidates rigorously, and support leadership teams in making hiring decisions with clarity and confidence.
Because the true measure of a hiring decision is not acceptance.
It’s performance over time.
Founder, Searchlight
Chris is an executive search and hiring advisor with more than 25 years of experience helping leadership teams make high-stakes hiring decisions across healthcare, life sciences, and technology.
His work focuses on improving decision quality, reducing hiring risk, and helping organizations build leadership teams that perform and endure.
A searchlight does not create truth.
It reveals what is already there.
Our work is designed to illuminate real behavior, real risk, and real capability—so hiring decisions are made with clarity rather than assumption.
If you are facing a hiring decision that needs to hold up under pressure and over time, we should talk.