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.

ACHIEVEMENTS

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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 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

How Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Fuels a Powerful Employment Brand

Employers are amid a labor shortage the likes of which we’ve never imagined. Today, unemployment is being reported at 3.6 percent, the lowest it’s been since its  climb to 14.7 percent during the first days of the pandemic. While this number might sound good, this statistic is wildly misleading, says Rob Andrews of Allen Austin in a

Culture is Key to Success and Failure in Private Equity Deals 

The importance of culture and its impact on private equity strategy and returns has been a growing development over the past few years. As PE investment returns have lagged behind those of the stock market in the U.S., firms are feeling pressure to improve and deliver stronger results. “This fact combined with some high-profile private

Allen Austin Appoints Consumer Products and Retail Sector Leader

Houston, TX-based search firm Allen Austin, parent company to Gaines International, has named Ken Wilcox as its newest partner and head of the consumer products and retail sectors in the executive search practice. “Ken is a truly exceptional addition to the Allen Austin team,” said Darcie Murray, senior managing partner. “Ken will help us make deeper inroads

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Press Releases

Kevin Stewart Joins Allen Austin

HOUSTON, TX, October 10, 2016 — Kevin Stewart brings over twelve years of extensive executive search consulting expertise to Allen Austin. Based in Houston, Kevin is a member of the firm’s global technology, life sciences, financial services and industrial practices. A versatile, driven and highly experienced executive search practitioner, Kevin has expertise in client management, process execution and

Delano Gordon Named Chief Information Officer for XL Parts, Inc.

HOUSTON, TX, September 28, 2016 — Delano Gordon is a seasoned technology executive with a record of enabling improved business performance using a balanced approach of process simplification, sensible technology investments, and sound governance. He is well skilled at establishing trusted relationships with senior executives and technology partners. He has board level experience with oversight of strategic planning

Allen Austin Selects ENGAGE to Provide Powerful Analytics and Increase Speed of Hire

HOUSTON, TX, September 20, 2016 — Allen Austin announces that it has selected ENGAGE, the sourcing intelligence platform that combines big data and predictive analytics to identify potential targets, to increase overall business intelligence, sourcing efficiency, speed and accuracy, while delivering better results for clients. For over twenty years, the partners of Allen Austin have been focused on how

Linda Riley Mitchell Named Chief Financial Officer for The Episcopal Diocese of Texas and the Episcopal Health Foundation

HOUSTON, TX, August 15, 2016 — Linda Riley Mitchell has been named the new Chief Financial Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and the Episcopal Health Foundation. Mitchell succeeds Robert J. Biehl, who served as CFO and Treasurer for 16 years. Mitchell was most recently employed with the Chicago Housing Authority as Executive Vice President and Chief

Allen Austin Enters Hunt Scanlon’s “Top 25” with Global Expansion to Boston

HOUSTON, TX, August 2, 2016 — Allen Austin, a leading global management consulting firm specializing in retained search and leadership advisory consulting, announced today that it has opened an office in Boston. The firm has added six new partners to its team in 2016, as a part of its global strategy to provide deep industry and functional expertise,