Talent Strategy & Advisory

When it comes to great talent, every strong team starts with the right play.

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A clear foundation for success

We help you design roles, refine your GTM structure, and plan your next hires based on real market conditions, not assumptions.

Workforce Planning

We assess your team gaps, market maturity, and regional growth goals to identify which roles you need, when you need them, and in which markets they’ll succeed - ensuring every hire is timed and positioned for maximum impact.

Leadership Benchmarking

We help you understand what good leadership looks like in APJ - how expectations differ by market, which cultural factors matter, and which capabilities consistently drive the strongest commercial outcomes.

Team Structure Guidance

We support succession planning and leadership development that sustain long-term growth - identifying future leaders, building capability, and ensuring your organisation can scale confidently across the region.

Market Intelligence

We provide compensation data, talent availability insights, competitive signals, and hiring norms for each APJ country - giving you the clarity and confidence to make informed, market-aligned decisions.

Your APJ strategy works when you make talent decisions that match market reality.

Roles that work in North America or Europe often fail in APJ without adjustment. We show you how compensation, notice periods, skill depth, and expectations vary across Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and Australia so your people decisions support real growth, not assumptions.

Leadership alignment that removes internal friction

APJ growth stalls when regional and global teams move in different directions. We bring leaders onto the same page with clear priorities, calibrated expectations, and a shared view of what great looks like in each market. The result is cleaner decision-making, faster execution, and teams that operate with confidence rather than second-guessing. Alignment becomes a competitive edge, not a bottleneck.

Advisory that evolves with your APJ footprint

APJ is never static. Talent pools shift, compensation trends change, and each market matures at its own pace. We partner with you as the region evolves, keeping people decisions tied to current conditions, not last year’s assumptions. With ongoing guidance across structure, capability, and leadership, you stay ahead of risk, capture opportunity early, and scale with clarity.

APJ Moves Fast. You should too.

Want sharper people decisions and a stronger talent strategy? Let’s discuss your challenges and build a plan that scales with you.

Talk to our Talent Strategy team.

Let’s Chat

info@playbooktalent.com

Our headquarters

11/121 Castlereagh St
Sydney NSW
Australia 2000