May 19, 2012
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Senior Executive Search Touchstone Consulting Executive Search is the premier senior Executive Search firm servicing Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific.
Relationship Based Touchstone continues to provide retained, relationship-based senior executive search services to clients in a range of industries, whose core linkage is their understanding that top performing people deliver quantifiable value to the company bottom line.
Trust and Integrity We provide tailored senior executive consulting services to a discreet handful of leading companies, providing us with the agility to properly target our clients' industries, without risking conflicts of interest.

Your Success PEOPLE make the difference between success and failure in today’s business operating environment. We become your ambassadors in the marketplace, attracting the best people for your key roles.

Case Studies Touchstone remains true to its core values and has built lasting partnerships with both clients and candidates evidenced by the fact that 85% of Touchstone’s projects come from repeat customers, a testament to our ability to achieve outstanding results for our clients.

Established in 2003, Touchstone Consulting has built a reputation as one of the most respected Executive Search companies in Australasia.

Founder and Managing Director, Chris Klingbeil identified the need within the executive search space, for a consultancy that provided partnerships which delivered quantifiable value to clients and potential candidates and raised the bar in terms of execution, ethics and service.

The name Touchstone was selected to represent Chris Klingbeil’s values and the company that he wished to build.

Touchstone remains true to its core values and has built lasting partnerships with both clients and candidates evidenced by the fact that 85% of Touchstone’s projects come from repeat customers, a testament to Touchstone’s ability to achieve outstanding results for its clients.

 

An interesting shift is that 45% of CEOs are either concerned or extremely concerned about the next six months for their businesses, much higher than previous polls. The government’s relationship with FMCG continues to be poor.

Touchstone CEO FMCG Poll - overall outlook for business

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In this poll we have spoken to CEOs who are running companies that have private equity ownership. The poll provides their opinion as to the outlook for their business for the period July - December 2010.

Touchstone CEO Portfolio Poll - July 2010 Overall business outlook

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touch-stone n.

Touchstone

  • An excellent quality that is used to test the excellence or genuineness of others.
  • A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;
    "they set the measure for all subsequent work."
 
 
 
 

Touchstone continues to lead the way in transformation consulting, helping our clients take their businesses to the next level, by identifying and securing top performing senior executives for their most important roles.

 
 
 
 

I have worked with Nick Tunbridge from Touchstone since 2007 and found him to have a very insightful understanding of the Private Equity space. Nick’s understanding of PE and his diligent and thorough preliminary understanding of the Company brief has delivered some great results for our business.

  Nick Mones, CEO Australian Envelopes
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Aardvark

Touchstone Consulting are proud supporters of Melbourne based music not-for-profit “Aardvark” with Chris Klingbeil as Deputy Chair for the organisation.  Aardvark brings together the music industry, music therapists and young musicians who have faced long-term or serious illness. Together they write, record and perform original music, enabling the young participants to work through their challenges, express themselves creatively, develop their musical skills, and inspire the wider community with their achievements.

For more information visit www.aardvarkismusic.org or www.myspace.com/aardvark

Contact Touchstone

Melbourne (Head Office):
Level 4 / 412 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Tel: +61 3 8615 9888
Fax: +61 3 8615 9899
E-mail: admin@tces.com.au

Sydney:
Suite 1, Level 5, 6 Bridge Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Tel: +61 2 9241 1544
Fax: +61 2 9247 3299
E-mail: admin@tces.com.au