Wellness executive search enabling consumers to actively incorporate holistic health and preventive self-care into their lifestyle
Compass Carter Osborne’s Wellness Practice works with businesses defining the next chapter of consumer health partnering with management teams, boards and investors to identify and secure the leadership that build category defining brands.
The practice operates across the full spectrum of the wellness category: from founder-led businesses and venture-backed scale-ups to PE-backed platforms and global groups. Across every stage of growth, our work is focused where leadership complexity is highest and the cost of the wrong hire is greatest.
What we do
We advise on C-suite and board appointments, specialist functional leadership hires and cross-border leadership builds. Our approach is rigorous and relationship-led — combining deep sector knowledge with a long-standing network of leadership talent across the category
We work in close partnership with our clients, taking the time to understand each business’s strategic position, competitive context and the specific leadership profile required to deliver against it.
Skin health
Women’s Health
Nutrition & Supplements
Wellness Retail
Fitness & Movement
Longevity & Preventative Health
Mental Wellness
Medical Aesthetics
Fertility
Functional Foods
Pharmacy
Recovery – MSK / Physio
Diagnostics
Therapy Platforms
Dermatology
Menopause
Personalised Nutrition
Health-focused retail
Studios
Cosmetic surgery
Hormone Health
CPG
Wearables
FemTech
How we work
The practice supports leadership appointments across the UK, Europe and North America, with reach into APAC. We bring international perspective to every mandate including cross-border builds and market entry appointments where cultural fluency is as important as functional expertise.
Our coverage spans the full commercial value chain: contract manufacturing and product development through to retail, digital growth and regulated clinical services. That breadth allows us to engage at every level of a business and advise with authority across brand, strategy, commercial and operational leadership.
Abigail leads the Wellness Practice, advising the businesses and investors shaping the wellness and consumer health sector on the leadership appointments that determine how they grow, compete and create value.
With over 15 years of retained search and leadership advisory experience, she works with private equity firms, portfolio CEOs, founder-led brands and global groups across the UK, Europe and North America, on mandates that span founder and CEO succession, board composition, market entry appointments and specialist functional hires. Her clients range from venture-backed scale-ups entering new markets to established PE-backed platforms managing significant leadership complexity.
Her coverage spans medical aesthetics, women’s health and femtech, nutrition and supplements, fitness and movement, mental wellbeing and the broader consumer health landscape, across the full value chain from product development through to retail, digital and regulated clinical services.
If you are making a senior appointment, building a leadership team or planning your next career move, Abigail welcomes a conversation.
Compass Carter Osborne successfully placed an HRD from outside of the healthcare sector, from a diverse background and with an extensive track-record leading HR functions for technology businesses.
Compass Carter Osborne were appointed following a highly competitive pitch process. Factors behind the award of the project included; understanding the brief; sector and specific nuances of the search and industry track record.
Compass Carter Osborne was appointed to source the Marketing Director for FutureLife Care, the leading pan-European IVF provider ranking #2 in Europe by size belonging to the portfolio of CVC Capital, a leading global private equity firm.
