Health & Care Services Executive Search
Leadership for the purpose-driven businesses growing the fastest.
Health, aged care, disability, allied health and community services are among the fastest scaling sectors in Australia. The leaders we place understand that growth here is a responsibility, not just a KPI.
Who we work with
The businesses that ring us
Founders, boards and CEOs of privately held, PE-backed and mission-led health and care businesses. $20M to $500M turnover. High growth, staff-heavy, regulated, and looking for leaders who can scale operations without losing the culture that made the business worth scaling.
Searches we run
The roles we are trusted with in health & care services
Purpose-aligned CEOs for high-growth care businesses.
Multi-site, staff-heavy operational leaders with a compliance backbone.
CFOs who can hold the growth story together while the business scales past $100M.
People leaders for organisations where the frontline workforce is the product.
Clinical governance leaders who partner with commercial leadership without compromising standards.
How we work in this sector
We have run searches for care businesses growing from 200 to 500+ staff in a single year. The leadership challenge is not the number, it is holding the culture and the quality bar as the business quadruples.
Our work with businesses like Trilogy Care has taught us what makes a great appointment stick in this sector. Values alignment is not a slogan here. It is the search criterion.
Frequently asked
Questions founders ask us about health & care services search
Lex Gordon Executive runs CEO, COO, CFO and Chief People Officer searches for privately held, PE-backed and mission-led health and care businesses. Our clients include some of the fastest scaling care providers in South East Queensland and nationally.
We do the work upfront to understand what culture actually means at your business (not what the values page says), then screen for evidence of that culture in the way candidates have led teams, made hard calls, and treated frontline staff.
Yes, and we frequently do. The best care businesses are ones where the clinical governance leader and the commercial leader trust each other. We often place both.
Companies we have placed leadership into