Who we are
About Yellow Folder
Founded in 2011 by Julian Doherty and Geoff Slade, Yellow Folder is a professional services firm providing talent advice and corporate research. We offer high-performance, data-enabled solutions which help our clients gain competitive and tactical advantages when faced with business and talent challenges.
The core principles of our service offerings and consulting culture are transparency, pro-activity, collaboration, project flexibility, precise scoping, and client ownership of researched information. We believe that service innovation allows our consulting services to meet contemporary client needs, where traditional executive search and recruitment vendors refuse to update their service model.
What we do
Our Services
Talent Investigation
Comprehensive market mapping aimed at identifying talent aligned to specific roles or job families for opportunistic hires or specific recruitment outcomes
Succession Planning
Strategic sourcing to help companies mitigate risk for high profile, critical Executive and Board-level positions
Competitor Intelligence
Detailed industry, company, salary and talent data including organisation charts, remuneration benchmarking, and pre-and-post acquisition audits
Diversity and Organisational Development Consulting
Supporting companies to apply a diversity and inclusion lens to their talent strategies and organisation development
Our Team
Julian Doherty
Managing Partner
Julian has over thirteen years of leadership, consulting and research experience managing business intelligence, executive search, and management consulting engagements for ASX Top 50, private, government, not-for-profit and higher education clients.
In 2011 he founded Yellow Folder Research with the aim of disrupting incumbent executive search providers and the agency model of recruitment. Julian believes that service and technology innovation allows consultants to meet evolved, contemporary client needs, where traditional vendors have refused to update their service model. Prior to founding Yellow Folder, Julian was Head of Research at Slade Partners.
Nicola Wortley
Head of Client Services
Nicola has over ten years of professional experience leading domestic and global talent investigation, talent pipelining, succession planning, diversity, competitive intelligence and talent solution-focused projects for senior executives and HR stakeholders in the higher education, financial services, mining, professional services, telecommunications, retail, logistics and gaming sectors.
Prior to joining Yellow Folder, Nicola held senior client services, research and consulting roles at Evolve Intelligence, Talent Intelligence, Swann Global and Hudson, after starting her career at KPMG as an Accountant in their audit group.
Joel Fichera
Head of Research
Joel has over five years of professional experience within research and corporate advisory. Joel is responsible for leading and co-ordinating research projects, as well as designing and implementing a range of process and systems improvements.
Joel has consulted across industries including financial services, technology, FMCG, higher education and property development. Prior to joining Yellow Folder, Joel worked in corporate advisory, entertainment and academic research.
Jacinta Boys
Client Services Director
Jacinta has over five years of professional experience leading research, succession planning, talent pipelining, strategic leadership and competitive intelligence projects across the financial services, higher education, professional services and not-for-profit sectors.
Prior to joining Yellow Folder, Jacinta held consulting and research focused roles at Mercer, Evolve Intelligence, KPMG, and Oppeus International.
Alastair Hilli
Research Manager
Alastair has over four years of professional experience in developing research solutions and supporting clients across the FMCG, financial services and legal sectors by leading market research initiatives, competitive intelligence and talent pipelining projects.
Prior to joining Yellow Folder, Alastair spent more than two years in senior policy roles at the Victorian Farmers’ Federation, where he worked across their dairy and water portfolios.
Marie Ramis
Research Consultant
After completing her Master of Management at Melbourne Business School, Marie gained experience as a resourcer specialising in financial services roles across a range of job families.
Since joining Yellow Folder, she has co-led and contributed to a number of talent investigation, talent engagement, and market intelligence projects in the consumer, technology, and financial services sectors.
About Us:
Yellow Folder Research is based in Melbourne and supports clients nationally and internationally by providing a range of Talent Investigation, Succession Planning, Competitor Intelligence, Diversity and Organisation Development Consulting services.
Contact Us:
If you would like to learn more about the services we offer, please contact us.