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Jason Hunt

Executive talent & assessment

I help organisations understand what they need from their leaders, find the right people and assess them thoughtfully.

Based in Sydney, with a background in organisational psychology. Experience across aviation, technology, consumer, retail, utilities, health and government, spanning the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US.

Where I add value

Understanding the role

Clarifying leadership requirements and recognising relevant experience.

Assessing the evidence

Building frameworks and interviews that support senior decisions.

Making things useful

Turning assessment thinking into practical tools, including Trajectas.

Work &
experience.

Founder

Building custom assessment workflows and developing content with an early collaborator.

Trajectas · Current

What I built

Using AI-assisted development, I built workflows for capability libraries, assessment items, campaigns, comparisons and reporting.

Putting it to use

With an early collaborator, I refined a capability framework, rewrote descriptions and authored assessment items for a coaching-oriented implementation. Completed pilot outcomes and validation results are not yet established.

Building Trajectas.

Talent Partner

Senior commercial and operational hiring, alongside practical AI tools and colleague coaching.

Woolworths Group · April-July 2026 · Contract

What I did

Supported senior commercial and operational hiring during a period of high demand. Alongside recruitment, I developed AI tools and coached colleagues in applying them at work.

The work in practice

The contract combined recruitment delivery with practical support for colleagues using new tools.

Executive Talent Strategy Partner

Executive talent mapping and search for a cybersecurity business, with appointments in the US and EMEA.

UpGuard · October 2025-February 2026 · Contract

What I did

Delivered executive talent mapping and search for a cybersecurity business, using AI tools to support leadership-market research.

Examples and outcomes

Appointments included a General Counsel in San Francisco, VP Revenue Enablement in Los Angeles and VP Sales EMEA in London.

Restarting a critical sales enablement search.Mapping talent for business-critical roles.

Partner Executive Search & Head of Assessment

Senior search and executive assessment across health, not-for-profit, transport and utilities.

Executive Quarter · June 2024-March 2025

What I did

As the firm’s first Sydney-based hire, I delivered CEO, CFO, COO and other senior searches across health, not-for-profit, transport and utilities. I led executive assessment work and developed a bespoke leadership competency framework.

The work in practice

The framework supported candidate assessment and client use. I also introduced AI and automation into mapping and workflows. The firm subsequently closed.

Manager Executive Recruitment

Established executive recruitment and advised the Group Management Committee on senior talent needs.

Qantas Group · April-October 2023

What I did

Established executive recruitment and advised the Group Management Committee on senior talent requirements and hiring processes.

The work in practice

Supported appointments including Jetstar Chief Customer Officer, Head of Customer Strategy and Journey, Head of Group Fleet Procurement and Head of Sydney Airport. External search partners were involved where engaged; a search firm ran the Jetstar CCO search.

Executive Search Consultant

Executive search and assessment, including leadership placement during the enterprise Agile transition.

Air New Zealand · May 2021-December 2022

What I did

Partnered with executives on senior search, assessment and selection across commercial, operational and corporate functions, including the enterprise Agile transition.

Examples and outcomes

Co-developed the framework and owned the assessment structure used for approximately 70 leaders. In a separate process, designed selection of 45 high-potential employees to train as Agile Coaches.

Assessing leaders for a new operating model.Defining a customer leadership role.

Executive Search Associate

Board and executive search, from briefing and research through shortlist and offer.

SEQEL Partners · October 2019-May 2021

What I did

Worked across briefing, research, longlist, shortlist and offer, managing client and candidate relationships throughout the search process.

The work in practice

Board and executive mandates included CEO, CFO, COO and Chief Strategy Officer roles for listed, private-equity, privately owned and multinational clients.

Leadership Talent and Reward Analyst

Leadership-development workshops and support for a high-potential leadership assessment programme.

Korn Ferry · January-October 2019

What I did

Conducted leadership-development workshops for managers in a major New Zealand postal business and assisted development of a leadership assessment programme at a major listed company.

The work in practice

The assessment programme was intended to identify and develop high-potential leaders. My contribution was to its development, rather than independent ownership of the programme.

Army Reserve Infantry Rifleman & Organisational Psychology Intern

Army Reserve service and a separate organisational psychology internship.

New Zealand Defence Force · Reserve: 2014-2019 · Internship: November 2016-February 2017

What I did

Served as an Infantry Rifleman in the NZ Army Reserve from 2014 to 2019. Separately, undertook an Organisational Psychology Internship from November 2016 to February 2017.

Selected
work.

Deeper examples from the roles above, written up in full.

  1. 01Air New Zealand · Leadership assessmentAssessing leaders for a new operating model.Creating a common assessment structure for approximately 70 leaders moving into a new operating model.
  2. 02Air New Zealand · Executive searchDefining a customer leadership role.Reframing an unfamiliar customer leadership role across aviation, digital experience and commercial work.
  3. 03Founder · Trajectas · Assessment toolsBuilding Trajectas.Building Trajectas: connecting assessment concepts, content and delivery through AI-assisted development.
  4. 04UpGuard · Executive searchRestarting a critical sales enablement search.Restarting a senior sales enablement search and securing an accepted offer in approximately 10–12 weeks, including the Christmas period.
  5. 05UpGuard · Strategic talent mappingMapping talent for business-critical roles.Prioritising critical leadership roles and developing initial longlists of approximately 20–30 potential candidates per role across the six highest-priority positions.

References

“Having worked with Jason at Air New Zealand, his insight, connection and ability to find amazing people is second to none.”

Brett DaleyHiring Stakeholder · Air New Zealand

“Jason is exemplary in the art and science of what we do … exceptionally smart, yet humble, authentic and willing to listen.”

Will WilsonManaging Partner · Executive Quarter

Building
with AI.

I use AI to build useful software, improve everyday workflows and bring new ideas into working products.

That means working across the whole process: defining the problem, building, testing and deploying a solution, and integrating models into the product itself. My projects involve transcription, summarisation, model APIs and connections between tools, with attention to data access, output quality and what happens when something fails.

The Marathon Clinic

AI-assisted development turned coaching knowledge into a website, planning tools and course-pacing features. The training logic follows defined rules; AI helps me research, build and refine.

The coaching venture behind it →

From booking to follow-through

An all-in-one productivity tool that brings together what I used Calendly, Wispr Flow and Granola for: booking, voice dictation and meeting notes, with AI summaries and a shared notes library.

Big Listen

Built to help my partner’s family talk with her grandfather, who is hard of hearing. It turns a phone into a live-captioning screen, converting speech into large, high-contrast text.

Project 215

A personal performance tracker built around my goal of running a 2:15 marathon. It brings Strava data together with health and recovery tracking, so I can review training load and progress in one place.

A little more
about me.

I’m most interested in work where I can get to grips with an unfamiliar leadership problem, advise the people making the decision and build something that helps.

Education
  • University of Canterbury

    Master of Science with DistinctionApplied Psychology · University of Canterbury

  • University of Otago

    Bachelor of ArtsPsychology & Music · University of Otago

  • Queen’s University

    International exchangeQueen’s University, Canada

Assessment tools & frameworks
  • Korn Ferry
  • SHL
  • Hogan
  • Talegent

I know what each measures, how they complement one another and where their limits lie.

AI tools
  • OpenAIChatGPT and Codex
  • AnthropicClaude and Claude Code
  • GoogleGemini

Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini for thinking and writing; Codex and Claude Code for software.

And outside work,
I run.

From professional long-distance triathlon to winning the Sunshine Coast Marathon. Sport is a big part of my life.

Marathon personal bestGold Coast, 2025
Guinness World Records

I also hold the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon in a suit. A different kind of challenge, raising money for Movember.

The running story
The Marathon Clinic

Founder & Head Coach

Putting the running experience to work.

I founded The Marathon Clinic to bring my experience as an endurance athlete and coach into a service focused on the marathon. It combines one-to-one coaching with free training guidance, planning tools and race-specific pacing.

The aim is to help runners understand their training, make better decisions and prepare for their own race. Building the technology is one part of that; coaching and the judgement behind it are the reason it exists.

Explore The Marathon Clinic ↗