Hanold Associates

About Us

Hanold Associates Executive Search is a retained boutique executive search and coaching firm focused on HR, Diversity and Corporate Officers and Board Directors. Our clients include American Airlines, Apollo, Arizona Cardinals, Big Ten Conference, Biogen, Blackrock, Blackstone, Carnival Corp., Cartier, CBS News, College Football Hall of Fame,  Dick’s Sporting Goods, Domino’s Pizza, eBay, Electronic Arts, Fanatics, Federal Reserve Bank, Ford Motor Company, Fossil, Goodwill, Gucci, Kellogg, Kohler, L Catterton,  Live Nation Entertainment, Major League Baseball, Moderna, The National Football League, The New York Times, New York Football Giants, Nike, Nordstrom, Northwestern University, Paramount, Patagonia, Phillips 66, Prada, Red Hat, REI, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Save The Children, SC Johnson, Tapestry, Tiffany & Co., Tom Brady’s TB12, TPG, Under Armour, Vail Resorts, Walgreen, and Zoom.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Hanold Associates

Solutions And Expertise

We are passionate about building diverse, people-first organizations. “Human Resources,” “HR” or the “People” function has rapidly evolved. Today’s HR/People leaders must possess distinctive business acumen, have perspectives on the business beyond People implications and be concurrently strategic, hands-on and innovative.

We are experts in finding senior HR and diversity leaders who deliver strategic business impact. As an extension of the brands we serve, we blend the science of retained executive search with the art of understanding the important nuances of leadership attributes and how they sync with team dynamics.

Because we focus on crushing search execution―rigorous assessment, a fast process, and getting culture fit right―we are often asked to lead searches beyond HR and Diversity for other executive leaders and diverse Board Directors.

Solutions
  • Board Services
  • Executive Search
Industries
  • Consumer
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare Services
  • Industrial
  • Life Sci./Healthcare
  • Private Equity
  • Professional Services
  • Sports
  • Technology
Functions
  • Human Resources

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News Briefings

Here’s Why Game Changing CHRO Talent Is In Big Demand

Chief human resource officers (CHRO) have made big strides as strategic game changers and sounding boards for CEOs. The best ones are now critical C-suite players. That is making the hunt for first-rate HR leaders a highly competitive business. Three HR recruiting rivals take us inside their work, one via podcast, serving up an outstanding

Hunt Scanlon’s 10 Most Important Recruiting Stories of 2016

Hunt Scanlon Media covered a lot of terrain in 2016 – and so picking our 10 most important stories will likely go down as the most difficult task our editorial team handled this year! Great comebacks, globalization, new assessment tools to review, new service offerings, Brexit, polls & surveys to analyze, talent pipelining, the influential

Hunt Scanlon’s 10 Best Interviews of 2016

If Hunt Scanlon Media has one best kept secret, it is the vast professional and tightly focused network that we communicate with every day, both on and off the grid. Hunt Scanlon provides daily market intelligence briefings and data analytics to an expanding universe of global talent acquisition leaders – 72 percent of them on

Why the CEO / CHRO Relationship Is Essential

In partnership with CEOs, chief human resource officers (CHROs) are playing increasingly critical roles to ensure companies win the war for talent and maximize employee motivation across the globe, according to the ‘Executive Monitor’ report newly released by search firm Boyden. Boyden’s report, “The Rise of the CHRO,’ explores the many challenges CHROs face on

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Press Releases

DaVita Kidney Care Retains Hanold Associates for their VP Labor Relations Search

DaVita Kidney Care has retained Hanold Associates for the Vice President, Labor Relations search, based in Denver. Keri Gavin, Kile Hanold and Lisa Butkus are leading the search for this role. Reporting directly to the Chief People Officer of DaVita, Kenny Gardner, the Vice President, Labor Relations will serve as the key leader for all

Alliant Energy Appoints HR Director from Search by Hanold Associates

Alliant Energy has appointed Sara Boettcher as Director of Human Resources Consulting & Employee Experiences, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Hanold Associates’ Katrina Prospero and Sandra Peña led the search. Sara Boettcher comes to Alliant from Molson Coors Beverage Company where she held various leadership positions. Reporting to Diane Cooke, the Vice President of Human Resources

Alight Solutions Appoints VP HR Operations from Search by Hanold Associates

Alight Solutions has appointed Karen Shand as Vice President of Human Resources Operations. Hanold Associates’ Keri Gavin and Kile Hanold led the Lincolnshire, Illinois-based search. Karen Shand comes to Alight from DuPont where she held various global leadership positions. As the Vice President of HR Operations at Alight, she will be responsible for leading all

Patrick Industries Retains Hanold Associates for EVP and CFO Search

Patrick Industries (NASDAQ symbol PATK) has retained Hanold Associates for their Chief Financial Officer search based in Elkhart, Indiana. Ashley Schiele, Katrina Prospero and Sandra Peña are leading the search. Patrick’s EVP and Chief Financial Officer reports to the CEO and is part of the Senior Leadership Team. This leader will direct a team of

Reyes Holdings’ Golden Brands Retains Hanold Associates for HR Leadership Searches

Reyes Holdings’ Golden Brands has retained Hanold Associates for two (2) Human Capital Manager searches. Katrina Prospero and Sonia Nagra are leading the search for these roles, one for the San Francisco Bay Area and the other for Sacramento. Reyes Holdings, aligned with leading beverage and foodservice providers, delivers some of the best-known brands and

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