Focused on UHNW and HNW Wealth Managers and PE-Backed Wealth Businesses

Founded by Conor Hourigan, Global Wealth Talent is a discreet advisory practice working with global wealth managers and private equity–backed or –invested wealth businesses to address leadership and advisor stability challenges that directly impact continuity, enterprise value, and partner trust.

I work with CEOs, COOs, Presidents, and Country or Regional Heads to:

• Diagnose advisor loyalty, retention risk, and competitive vulnerability — and recommend targeted interventions.

• Build viable, external succession plans for critical leadership roles.

• Identify and select ready-now leaders when no internal successor is viable.

• Independently validate cultural fit and track record before critical leadership appointments — including leaders inherited through acquisitions, bolt-ons, or roll-ups.

Whether safeguarding a firm’s top advisors, preparing a founder’s succession plan, replacing a key leader, or ensuring the right leadership team is in place for a newly acquired platform, I provide targeted engagements or ongoing counsel — always with discretion, speed, and alignment.

Leadership, Retention, and Reputation

My advisory work spans three interconnected areas:

• Leadership Continuity — ensuring no critical role is left exposed, with external successors ready before disruption occurs.

• Advisor Retention — uncovering the real drivers of loyalty and addressing flight risk before it turns into resignations.

• Reputation Due Diligence — discreetly validating external leaders before they are hired, or those inherited through M&A, removing bias from executive referrals and ensuring cultural and performance fit.

Each can be addressed on its own, or in combination, depending on the priorities of leadership. The approach is flexible but always pivots first to urgent leadership mandates, ensuring immediate risks are contained before longer-term priorities are executed.

A Background in Scaling Elite Wealth Platforms

Before founding Global Wealth Talent, I served as Senior Partner for Wealth Management at Korn Ferry, where I led global mandates in advisor retention strategy, leadership succession, senior leadership assessment, and cross-border leadership appointments.

Previously, I was Co-Global Head of Talent & Recruiting at UBS Wealth Management, serving on both the Americas HR Executive Committee in New York and the Global Talent & Recruiting Committee in Zurich.

Over two decades, I have delivered 300+ leadership and retention mandates and built a global network of 10,000+ wealth professionals — across investment, leadership, and governance roles.

Today: Embedded, Independent, and Aligned

Now independent, I work without client conflicts or placement fees, partnering with firms that need high-trust, external execution — not slide decks or transactional recruiting.

Most of my clients engage me when the stakes are high, the answers are unclear, and the solution must be both strategic and deliverable.