taylor sterling

Intelligent Solutions Based on Synergy and Experience

With over 100 years of shared regional industry experience, Taylor Sterling is the first-choice partner for employers operating in the Middle East

With access to a broader talent pool and flexible engagement models, clients benefit from faster access to talent and cost-effective solutions. Taylor Sterling Beyond specialise in tailoring engagements to specific project requirements, for optimising costs, and maximising return on investment. The organisation’s commitment to ethical recruitment practices and proven track record ensure reduced risk and increased certainty, leads to project and business success.

Combining Taylor Sterling’s expertise in executive search and recruitment with Beyond Consulting's deep industry knowledge and flexible project and company-based services. Taylor Sterling has a proven track record in identifying and placing top talent and has provided services to many of the industry’s top tier-built environment companies.

Vision

We envision a future where the built environment in the Middle East is transformed through innovation, leadership, and excellence.

‘Creating the Future Together’ encapsulates our commitment to not just meet the current standards around talent and delivery, but to set new benchmarks that ensure a lasting legacy of innovation and resilience in the built environment.

Mission

Our mission is to collaborate closely with our clients, understand their unique challenges and opportunities, and provide customised strategies that drive sustainable growth and improvement.

By leveraging our expertise and fostering a culture of excellence, we aim to contribute to the creation of organisations that are efficient, sustainable, and forward-looking.

Our Market Alignment

We complement and enable your success through our holistic solutions based on many years’ experience of operating and scaling successful businesses, both directly and indirectly in the industry across the region.

Our breadth of services means that we can enable any business at any stage of its maturity while always adding value.

Trust

Trust

Our bedrock is ensuring reliability, transparency, and integrity in all we do, fostering enduring partnerships and mutual growth.

Understanding

Understanding

Our talent partnership thrives on deep comprehension, fostering personalized connections and ultimately solutions that ensure success.

Value

Value

We create worth through our talent solutions, delivering quality, efficiency, and growth of scalable solutions within a partnership.

Bespoke Solutions

We understand each stage of growth brings its own challenges which requires resilient scalable solutions specific to your long and short term goals.

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Startup

Our experienced advisors, with deep regional and industry knowledge, can help you thrive.

Leaders are stretched thin, managing strategy and daily tasks. We help you focus on your vision, providing critical support in:

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Securing funding

Access specialized investors and navigate complex regulations.

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Building your team

Find innovators who adapt to dynamic market needs.

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Establishing market presence

Cut through competition, gain traction fast.

Success, tailored to you.

We offer a multitude of services, customized to your specific needs.

Startup

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Growth

Growth phase? Scale smart, stay sharp

From hands-on to strategic.
As your company grows, efficient scaling with quality demands leadership evolution. Delegate for specialization and empower departments.

Maximize opportunities, manage risks.

Leverage your reputation for bigger projects and new markets, but prioritize risk awareness. We help you identify and navigate both.

Invest in excellence, secure your future.

Professional development and technology boost efficiency and delivery. Build a flexible workforce - full-time, on-demand, and expert talent - for sustainable, profitable growth.

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Transformation and Exit

Navigating transitions smoothly, maximizing legacy.

Succession, exit, or transformation - we guide you. Maturing companies face decisions: leadership continuity, exit strategy, and employee engagement. We help you navigate them successfully.

Expert advisors, proven results.

Learn from our team's track record to choose the right path, be it acquisition, merger, IPO, or building a lasting legacy.

Secure your future, solidify your impact.

Ensure a smooth transition, maximize value, and leave a lasting mark on the built environment.

Our Clients

We are focused solely on organisations and individuals who operate in the built environment throughout the Middle East. Our elite leadership team boasts unrivaled years of experience operating in this market, which our clients benefit from, quickly building trust and forming long-term partnerships with us.

Our clients include some of the biggest names in the business and we provide a wide spectrum of services across whole project lifecycles. Our dynamic and responsive ecosystem of top talent and services for the built environment in the Middle East, attracts the top-tier talent and organisations, and provides them with the best opportunities available.

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Core Team

Taylor Sterling's strength is in its partners. Individually they bring vast experience and ability. Combined and layered with our corporate partnerships, our clients leverage a solutions infrastructure beyond anything available in the region.

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Marcus Taylor

Partner

Specializing in executive talent assignments and solving staffing problems faced by the built environment for two decades throughout the Middle East.

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Alexandra Scholes

Partner

With 15 years in the Middle East Recruitment Sector, Alexandra leads talent acquisition strategies for globally acclaimed brands and is dedicated to attracting, developing and retaining talent for some of the Construction markets leading players.

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Chris Cooper

Partner

Over 4 years specializing in delivering interim advisory and ‘specialist team’ solutions, Chris’s 10-year tenure as a Director with WSP brings a significant depth of industry and regional expertise.

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Graham Almond

Partner

Harvard alumni, Fellow of the Australian HR and Safety Institutes a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Graham brings the experience of over 20 years of Executive Leadership for FTE top 100 organizations in developing local and global leadership, cultural and people performance strategies.

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Andy Ryan

Partner

Previously VP of Airswift and an advisor to Qatar royalty, Andy's depth of regional understanding and talent solution delivery is arguably unmatched in the region.

How can we help to create your future ?

We would be delighted to hear from you and discuss potential solutions to support your business.