Allen Austin

About Us

Leadership. Impact.

Flexible, Collaborative, Responsive & Results Oriented

Allen Austin is a Top Tier global management consulting firm specializing in board services, retained search, leadership advisory, and culture shaping. Allen Austin’s purpose is to enhance the lives and effectiveness of our associates, clients, and stakeholders.  This means we practice search and culture shaping as a specialized form of management consulting and as your partner in building your world class organization.

Having rejected order-taking, cookie-cutter solutions, and a transactional philosophy at our client’s expense, every engagement we deliver is customized and carefully crafted to add sustained value to your organization. The partners at Allen Austin have seen every engagement to fruition and execute all mission critical phases of each assignment.

In an industry that hasn’t innovated in over a hundred years, we’ve been focused on how to “do it better”, whether that’s focusing on high performance cultures, ideal fit, engagement, value delivery, or retention. Our proprietary Foresight™ process, which has evolved over thirty years and is the most advanced, evidence-based process of which we are aware.

Our Total Performance Leadership™ study and corresponding architecture delivers cutting-edge diagnostics that reveal overall organizational health and effectiveness, leadership mindset, cultural climate, and the way the organization sees itself when measured against the principles practiced in the highest performing and most successful organizations. The output of our flagship Organizational Health Index (OHI) is literally a road map to a competitor crushing culture of peak performance and unprecedented shareholder returns.

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Solutions And Expertise

Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Career Services
  • Culture Shaping
  • Data Analy./Mrkt. Intell.
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Executive Tracker
  • Interim
  • Leadership Develop.
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • Onboarding
  • Org. Chart Mapping
  • Recruitment Research
  • Succession Planning
Industries
  • Advertising/Marketing
  • Aerospace/Defense
  • Agriculture
  • All Industries
  • Alt. Investments
  • Asset Management
  • Associations
  • Automotive
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemicals
  • Clean Tech./Sustain.
  • Clinical Research
  • Cloud Based
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Commercial Banking
  • Communications
  • Construction
  • Consulting
  • Consumer
  • Consumer Products
  • Consumer Services
  • Cultural Arts
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Devices
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Engineering & Archit.
  • Faith Based
  • Family Offices
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • FinTech
  • Foundations
  • Global Markets
  • Government
  • Healthcare Services
  • Hedge Funds
  • High Tech
  • Industrial
  • Industrial Products
  • Insurance
  • Internet
  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Mgmt.
  • K-12
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Life Sci./Healthcare
  • Luxury
  • Machine Learning
  • Manufacturing
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Medical
  • Medical Devices
  • Mobile
  • Natural Resources
  • Non-Profit
  • Oil & Gas
  • Payments/Processes
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Private Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Professional Services
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Restaurants
  • Retail
  • Software
  • Sovereign Wealth
  • Sports
  • Supply Chain
  • Technology
  • Trade Finance
  • Transportation
  • Travel, Hosp. & Leisure
  • Utilities
  • Venture Capital
  • Wealth Management
Functions
  • 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

Allen Austin Recruits CEO for Stress Engineering Services

Houston, TX-based search firm Allen Austin has helped to recruit Justin Jarski as the new CEO of Stress Engineering Services, Inc. “This momentous hire marks the first time the company has selected an external candidate for this role, signaling an exciting new era of leadership,” the search firm said. “Justin brings a wealth of experience and a long-standing

Strengthening Your Employment Brand to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Why should a high-performing employee who is head down, working hard, not looking for change, and doing a great job for your top competitor come to work for you? If your words don’t yet paint a very compelling why, you’ve got work to do, according to a recent report from Allen Austin’s Rob Andrews. “Short of

Allen Austin Recruits CHRO for James Avery Artisan Jewelry

Houston, TX-based search firm Allen Austin has assisted in the recruitment of Ty Richardson as the new chief human resources officer of James Avery Artisan Jewelry in Kerrville, TX. “We are thrilled to announce the successful placement of Ty Richardson as the new chief human resources officer at James Avery Artisan Jewelry, a brand renowned for its

Allen Austin Partners Recruits Inaugural Board of Directors for Stress Engineering Services

Houston, TX-based search firm Allen Austin has completed a board engagement for Stress Engineering Services Inc., to design and build its first fiduciary board of directors. The incoming board was designed to bring the right directors together to advise management on matters of strategy, culture, organizational performance, and specific market sector penetration. “We are confident that

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Press Releases

Allen Austin Partners with Stress Engineering Services, a Unique ESOP Firm, in Inaugural Board of Directors Engagement

Houston, TX, May 15, 2024] – Allen Austin, a leading management consulting firm renowned for its 30- year-old ForesightTM retained search process, collaborative approach, and commitment to excellence, is pleased to announce the successful completion of a board engagement for Stress Engineering Services Inc., to design and build its first fiduciary board of directors. The

Allen Austin Leading Search for a New Information Systems Director at MRC Global

HOUSTON, TX, January 25, 2016 — MRC Global Inc. (NYSE: MRC), a publicly-traded New York Stock Exchange company, has retained Allen Austin, a Houston based Retained Search and Leadership Advisory firm, for the search of a new Information Systems Director – Security. MRC Global is the largest global industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings (“PVF”) and related

Lawren Eckhardt Named Director of Marketing for Rise Communities

HOUSTON, TX, January 20, 2017 — Lawren Eckhardt is a creative marketing professional with extensive experience in developing award-winning marketing campaigns, promotions and events for numerous master-planned communities. Lawren joins Rise Communities from Johnson Development Corp. where she successfully led and managed numerous master-planned community projects. Lawren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Marketing from Houston Baptist

Laura Paight Named Director of Recruitment for Waste Connections

HOUSTON, TX, January 9, 2017 — Laura Paight is a Talent Acquisition Leader with over 20 years of experience developing and implementing successful recruitment strategies in the Energy and Pharmaceutical industries with an international perspective. Laura has deep expertise in many aspects of Talent Acquisition including recruitment strategies in new and developing markets, onboarding, diversity programs, university relations,

Larry O’Donnell III Named Board Director for PSC

HOUSTON, TX, November 17, 2016 — Larry O’Donnell, III is a seasoned executive and board member with over 35 years of experience in the energy and industrial services industries. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Rockwater Energy Solutions, Inc., and served as the company’s President and CEO from 2011 to 2015. Larry held executive positions at

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