FILMED INDUSTRY SERIES

Ten Chairs.
The Industry’s Leaders.
In Their Own Words.

Get to know the ten people who lead an industry. One episode each, answering the same twelve questions in their own words.

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NOW INVITING
The Executive Search Ten, Series 1.

Production has started, and we are inviting executive search leaders into the series now. Apply for consideration, or nominate a leader.

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WHAT IS TEN CHAIRS

Every Ten Chairs series takes one industry and films the ten people at the top of it: the founders and leaders who run it, each from a different corner of the market.

One episode each, and the same twelve questions put to all of them, so you hear the same problem thought through ten different ways, first-hand, by people who have made those calls several hundred times. The questions are the ones nobody asks out loud: how the judgement is really made, what gets missed, what separates a decision that holds from one that unravels two years later.

THE SERIES

Now in production.

The Executive Search Ten, in the studio
TEN CHAIRS
SERIES 1
The Executive Search Ten
Meet the people who find the people who run corporate Britain: ten company founders, from Board & NED to Private Equity & Portfolio, each answering the series’ twelve questions in their own words.
FROM THE SERIES 1 QUESTIONS
“What separates the executives who succeed from the ones who fail?”
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COMING SOON
  • The Wealth Management Ten
  • The Employment Law Ten
  • The Accountancy Ten
  • The Architecture Ten
THE TEAM

The team behind it.

Layth Karagholi
Layth Karagholi
FOUNDER & PRODUCER

Twenty-five years bringing industries together, first through exhibitions and events, now on film. He has built five companies of his own. Layth produces each series and sets its questions.

“Every industry runs on conversation that never gets recorded. Ten Chairs makes the recorded version.”

Elena Sarasom
Elena Sarasom
DIRECTOR

Fifteen years producing and directing film for B2B companies, in law, recruitment and technology. Founder and creative director of her own production studio since 2013.

“My job is to make people feel seen, heard and well represented on screen.”

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NOMINATIONS

Who belongs in the ten?

Who should the industry be hearing from? If there is someone you would put in one of these chairs, tell us who.

Every nomination is read.

Know the moment Episode 1 airs.

Contributing

Chairs are held by invitation, one company to a specialism. If you lead a company in one of our industries and think you should hold one, tell us about your company.

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