CarterBaldwin Executive Search

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CarterBaldwin is a retained executive search firm that partners with our clients to build exceptional leadership teams. For more than two decades, we have played a pivotal role in transforming the leadership and landscape for clients, impacting the future of their organizations for years to come.

Since our inception in 2001 as a corporate firm, we have expanded our client portfolio to include nonprofit and academic sectors, serving both domestic and international clients from our headquarters in Atlanta, GA and our Washington, D.C. office. Despite our growth, we remain intentional about our “small” size, choosing to focus on delivering great search outcomes with the right balance of partner involvement, recruitment, and research support.

With more than 125 years of combined executive search experience, our partners lead a highly engineered search process that is collaborative, efficient, and effective with consistent success. Our in-depth approach enables us to deeply understand each client’s needs and creates a seamless partnership for every search project.

We pride ourselves on our highly experienced staff, an unrivaled process, and an exceptional client and candidate experience. As a result, many of our engagements are with repeat clients, referrals, or candidates significantly impacted by our work.

To see why many of the best and most admired organizations continue to trust CarterBaldwin with their most critical leadership needs, connect with us.

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With more than 125 years of combined executive search experience, our partners lead a highly engineered search process that is collaborative, efficient, and effective with consistent success. Our in-depth approach enables us to deeply understand each client’s needs and creates a seamless partnership for every search project.

We pride ourselves on our highly experienced staff, an unrivaled process, and an exceptional client and candidate experience. As a result, many of our engagements are with repeat clients, referrals, or candidates significantly impacted by our work.

To see why many of the best and most admired organizations continue to trust CarterBaldwin with their most critical leadership needs, connect with us.

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Solutions And Expertise

Large enough to bring significant resources, muscle and international reach but small enough to build intimate, long term client partnerships, CarterBaldwin is a bright, fresh, high energy alternative in an industry cluttered with dated, impersonal search models. The world is changing … shouldn’t executive search change with it?

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  • Advertising
  • All Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • CEO/President
  • Communications/PR
  • Customer Service
  • Data/Analytics
  • Development
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Government
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain

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News Briefings

CarterBaldwin Places SVP of Corporate Development at Cardlytics

Corporate development refers to the planning and execution of strategies to meet organizational objectives. The kinds of activities falling under corporate development may include management team recruitment, phasing in or out of markets or products, arranging strategic alliances, identifying and acquiring companies (M&A), securing corporate financing, divesting of assets or divisions, and management of intellectual property. With the

Oklahoma Baptist University Turns to CarterBaldwin to Find President

As the academic year winds down, a number of universities across the country are looking to install new leaders. Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU) recently tapped CarterBaldwin Executive Search to find a new president after David W. Whitlock announced his retirement. The search is being led by consultant Debby White and founding partner Price Harding. Representatives from CarterBaldwin

7 Reasons Why Companies Hire Search Firms 

In times of change, a crucial executive-level appointment can mean the difference between success and catastrophe. Last time, your company may have kept this critical search in-house, leveraged its own network or hired a contingency recruiter. But, mistakes were made, and you now know that a bad hire to a crucial position can have detrimental

Why Trust is the Most Critical Ingredient to a Successful Search

Of all the elements that go into an executive search, the most important is trust, according to Price Harding, founding partner of CarterBaldwin Executive Search, in a new report. “Interestingly, there may not be anything in our lives that is more foundational to both business and personal relationships than trust and yet, for most of

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Press Releases

Utility Associates Names John Whitehead Next Chief Revenue Officer

CarterBaldwin Executive Search is proud to partner again with Utility Associates, Inc. (Utility) in the appointment of John Whitehead as Chief Revenue Officer. John comes to Utility from Swedish based Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure (formerly Intergraph) (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B), where he was vice president of sales for North American Public Safety. He joined Intergraph,

Deborah Crown Named Dean of the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University

CarterBaldwin Executive Search is proud to partner again with Pepperdine University in their naming of Dr. Deborah Crown as the 10th dean of the Graziadio Business School. Crown joins Pepperdine from Rollins College, where she has served as dean of the Crummer Graduate School of Business and professor of management since 2016. “I look forward

Osmose Utilities Names Jeff Valmus Executive Director, Steel Unit

CarterBaldwin Executive Search is proud to partner again with Osmose Utilities Services, Inc., a portfolio company of EQT Infrastructure, in the appointment of Jeff Valmus as Executive Director, Steel Unit. In this newly created position, Jeff will lead the commercial expansion for the company’s rapidly growing steel services business unit as the company partners with electric transmission

Justin Gardner Named Senior Director of Strategy at Mohawk Industries

CarterBaldwin Executive Search is proud to partner again with Mohawk Industries (NYSE: MHK) as they appoint Justin Gardner Senior Director of Strategy. In this role, Justin will lead supply chain optimization projects, partnering with sourcing, manufacturing, and product teams of each business unit, along with Mohawk’s warehousing, transportation, product planning, technology systems, and customer experience

Jennifer Shewmaker Appointed Lipscomb University’s Chief Academic Officer

CarterBaldwin Executive Search is proud to have partnered again with Lipscomb University in the appointment of higher ed veteran Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker as provost. She succeeds W. Craig Bledsoe, Lipscomb’s chief academic officer, who served as provost for 25 years. “The search process for our next provost was extraordinarily thorough. Our large and diverse search