Agency Three: Strategic career advisory for C‑suite technology executives

Companies hire executive recruiters — you hire us

Agency Three: The Problem We Are Solving

Situation

For candidates, the executive hiring landscape is rarely as straightforward as it appears. It's difficult to get behind the brief, decipher the real mandate, or assess whether the role is truly positioned for success. Feedback loops are inconsistent, the process is opaque and often political, and there is rarely someone in your corner helping you make sense of it all.

How We Help

We become your strategic counterpart throughout the journey, helping you read the dynamics, decode the role and navigate the process with confidence. The aim is simple. Avoid missteps, choose the right move, and advance with clarity and intent.

Q. Have you ever noticed how visible you are when headhunters are chasing you and how invisible you become when they're not?

Navigate executive search with leverage

From first outreach to final offer, we help you anticipate dynamics, shape conversations, and position yourself with intent.

This is not coaching

This is not headhunting

Our Approach

This is strategic counsel

for leadership, influence, and trajectory

"We act as your strategic counterpart in the executive market, helping you see dynamics clearly and advance with clarity, control, and confidence."

Why This Matters

Your career is the largest asset you own: Care for it intentionally.

Executive recruitment process visualization

Over the next decade, your career will create more value than any investment portfolio you hold. Yet strategic career decisions are often made through timing, instinct, or reactively through recruiter outreach.

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Agency Three: working in practice

We work with senior technology leaders to:

Clarify your leadership narrative

Define what you are known for and ensure it resonates with the market you want to influence.

Navigate executive search with intention

From first outreach to final negotiation, we help you maintain clarity, control, and confidence in how you are positioned.

Secure roles that set you up to succeed

Scope, authority, influence, support. We ensure you enter environments where you can deliver lasting leadership impact.

Senior technology executive in strategic consultation

Our Expertise

How we are solving this

Comprehensive career support or targeted counsel on specific stages. You determine the scope based on where you need strategic guidance.

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Leadership Profile

Bryan MacDonald

Founder & Principal, Agency Three

The Mission

I am launching Agency Three because senior technology leaders are navigating the highest-stakes career decisions without a strategic counterpart. Search firms represent the company. Coaches focus on performance. What's missing is someone who sits on the executive's side of the table — helping them shape their narrative, navigate pivotal transitions, and secure roles where the mandate and environment allow their leadership to scale.

Agency Three exists to give senior leaders leverage. We help you clarify your narrative, position yourself with intent, and move into roles where the mandate and environment allow your leadership to scale.

Professional Overview

Bryan has over 25 years' experience in executive search and digital leadership advisory. In that time, he has conducted more than 7,000 interviews with CIOs and senior IT leaders and has led 500+ global C‑suite mandates with a near 100% success rate.

He founded Agency Three to level the field to give senior technology executives the same strategic advantage companies have when they hire boards, advisors, and consultants. Agency Three provides confidential, one‑to‑one strategic counsel for CTOs, CIOs, and CDOs, helping them clarify decisions, sharpen positioning, and move through complex transitions with leverage and clarity.

Before founding Agency Three, Bryan built The Digital Board, a platform that connected Boards, CEOs, technology leaders and investors around one goal; improving the quality and impact of technology leadership at the top of organisations. Through The Digital Board, he helped global enterprises strengthen leadership culture, align technology with strategy, and turn digital ambition into measurable value. Those experiences shaped the foundation for Agency Three: a firm created to represent and empower the executives driving that change.

He is also the Co‑Presenter of Beyond the Tech, a podcast exploring the bold decisions, inflection points, and leadership journeys of senior technology executives.

Advisory & Boards

Signifly | Board Member

Advising on strategy, leadership development, and growth, while leveraging a global technology network to drive new business opportunities.

Nodes (Monstar Lab) | Chair of Global Advisory Board

Working closely with the leadership team of this high‑growth digital product development agency on scaling strategy, talent, and international positioning. Built and structured global advisory boards across the US, Middle East, and Europe.