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Thirdway

One hire fills a seat. The right hire changes your business.

Thirdway is an executive search partner that treats hiring the way high-performance sport treats a championship season. Preparation first, search second.

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About Thirdway

Daniel Moussa founded Thirdway in Brisbane after twenty years of leadership search across the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. The firm's tagline is purpose beyond placement, and Daniel's measure of a successful hire isn't the day a candidate signs. It's eighteen months later, when that hire is still in the business and the business is visibly better for it.

Thirdway works with founder-led and privately owned companies making mission-critical hires. Retained-only. No contingency pressure. One client, one mandate, one experienced partner running the search end-to-end with no handoffs.

How Thirdway runs a search

Most search firms operate in the middle of the process. Sourcing and shortlisting. Thirdway treats that middle as the easy part. The work that decides whether a hire succeeds happens at the bookends.

The methodology comes from high-performance sport.
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Pre-season

Alignment with the founder and the team before a role goes to market.

What does success look like in twelve months, twenty-four, thirty-six? Are the stakeholders in the room together? Is the strategy clear enough to hire against?

Pre-season is where Thirdway either confirms a search is ready to run, or tells a founder to put the brakes on.
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Season

Sourcing and candidate engagement.

Transparent briefings via a per-role microsite, a founder video interview so candidates understand the business they're joining, and a higher response rate because the role is presented properly.

The middle of the process where most firms compete on speed, Thirdway competes on quality of conversation.
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Championship moments

Hiring the right person, transitioning them in, building legacy. The placement isn't the win. The business that follows is.

The reason Daniel runs it this way: roughly 47% of senior hires fail in the first eighteen months.

Most of those failures aren't a candidate problem. They're a preparation problem.

The depth is the work.

Compono accelerates the measurement that used to be observational, so the search time goes into the conversations only a human can have.

Eighteen months later, the hire is still in the business.
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Who Thirdway works with

Founder-led and privately owned companies where a single hire genuinely shapes the next three years.

If the business is anywhere from $10M to $250M in revenue and the next leadership hire materially changes the trajectory, Thirdway is built for that shape of decision.

Track record

85% 

of placements still in seat at eighteen months or more

 

100%

repeat or referral clients

20+ years 

in leadership search

Six-month

placement guarantee with re-engagement at no additional fee if a placement fails

Where Compono fits

Daniel was already running culture assessments inside his search process. Observation and judgement, sharpened by twenty years of pattern recognition. Powerful, but hard to defend when a board asks for the working.

Compono adds the data layer. Work personality and culture assessment that sits underneath Daniel's judgement rather than in place of it. The hiring business gets benchmarked. The role gets contextualised against that benchmark. Candidates are assessed for the role and for the culture they're walking into.

Thirdway clients can defend the recommendation internally. Hard data behind a search firm's instinct, so the conversation with the executive team and the board lands.
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Considering a senior hire?

Compono can introduce you to Daniel for a conversation about whether Thirdway's approach is the right fit. No obligation, no pitch.

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I want to be invited to your Christmas party in five years, and the business is firing. That's the aim.
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Daniel Moussa
Founder, Thirdway

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If you're considering a mission-critical hire and want a search partner who treats preparation as the real work, Justin can introduce you to Daniel and the Thirdway team.
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