About Us

Hartman Group Consulting is a boutique executive search firm specializing in the placement of C-level leaders, board members and senior executives with P&L and/or high-impact responsibilities. The firm was founded to recruit leaders and develop strategies to solve business problems for our clients in financial services, technology, cybersecurity and luxury goods.

Hartman Group Consulting delivers strategic, high-touch client service and significantly deeper reach to potential candidates than larger firms. Founded by Carol Hartman, the Hartman Group Consulting team is guided by a process developed during Carol’s more than 25 years of retained search experience. Carol’s proprietary methodology has produced an outstanding rate of retention in all types of market conditions and cycles. Our focus on sourcing exceptional talent and our ability to help clients achieve their diversity and inclusion goals is a key reason our business is driven by long-term relationships with clients and many repeat engagements.

We also understand that attracting world-class talent to an organization is extremely competitive. As a result, we work with a sense of urgency, transparency and thoroughness in collaboration with our clients. Every successful search is based on developing meaningful, long-term relationships with our clients and aligning their interests with ours. We strive to continually provide added value that leverages our network of business relationships, deep domain expertise and industry sector knowledge, as well as the critical nuances of the search process itself.

Our goal for every engagement is complete client satisfaction. We accomplish that by understanding our clients’ business, listening to their needs, offering strategic guidance about the market for talent, providing competitive information and delivering the best candidates in a collaborative process.

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Hartman Group Consulting delivers strategic, high-touch client service and significantly deeper reach to potential candidates than larger firms.  Founded by Carol Hartman, the Hartman Group Consulting team is guided by a process developed during Carol’s more than 25 years of retained search experience. Carol’s proprietary methodology has produced an outstanding rate of retention in all types of market conditions and cycles. Our focus on sourcing exceptional talent and our ability to help clients achieve their diversity and inclusion goals is a key reason our business is driven by long-term relationships with clients and many repeat engagements.

Solutions And Expertise

Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Board Services
  • Data Analy./Mrkt. Intell.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Coaching
  • Executive Search
  • Leadership Consulting
  • Mgmt. Consulting
  • Onboarding
  • Succession Planning
Industries
  • Alt. Investments
  • Asset Management
  • Commercial Banking
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Family Offices
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Global Markets
  • Insurance
  • Investment Banking
  • Investment Mgmt.
  • Machine Learning
  • Payments/Processes
  • Private Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Real Estate
  • Sovereign Wealth
  • Technology
  • Wealth Management
Functions
  • Board/Governance
  • Business Development
  • C-Level Leaders
  • CEO/President
  • Data/Analytics
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Invest. Mgmt./Banking
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Risk Management

At Hartman Group Consulting, we also understand that attracting world-class talent to an organization is extremely competitive. As a result, we work with a sense of urgency, transparency and thoroughness in collaboration with our clients. Every successful search is based on developing meaningful, long-term relationships with our clients and aligning their interests with ours. We strive to continually provide added value that leverages our network of business relationships, deep domain expertise and industry sector knowledge, as well as the critical nuances of the search process itself.

News Briefings

New Business Climate Requiring New Senior Leadership Type

Businesses across the world are now at a post-pandemic inflection point with respect to their most precious commodity: their talent. According to a new report by Alix Partners, the immediate uncertainty and chaos, underpinned by personal and societal anxiety about the impact of COVID-19, will moderate as people return to work. “But they will do so with at

Another 847,000 Americans File for Unemployment

The Labor Department reported this morning that 847,000 more Americans filed new claims for state unemployment benefits last week as President Joseph R. Biden began his first week in the White House. Economists polled by Dow Jones had expected first-time claims to total 875,000. The feds have now reported about 75.6 million initial jobless claims over

Mastering the Online Interview has Just Taken on New Importance

Online interviews could be the new normal — not just because of the coronavirus crisis but because companies are realizing meaningful cost savings. That is leading to more broad acceptance of the practice. Carol Hartman of Hartman Group Consulting offers ways to master your next online interview. “Conducting interviews as a hiring manager or candidate from your

Hartman Group Consulting Launches, Places Leader for PENSCO Trust

Carol Hartman, former managing partner and global financial services practice leader for DHR International has founded a new search firm, Hartman Group Consulting, based in the San Francisco Bay area. The firm recently completed its first search, placing the new president of PENSCO Trust, a non-depository trust company and subsidiary of Opus Bank. Hartman Group

Press Releases

5 Critical Things to Know for Online Interviewing

March 17, 2020 – Ideally you should have a space dedicated for online meetings in your home whether you are a candidate or hiring manager – or just as a matter of best practice.  This morning as I watched morning news programs, even professional communicators do not have well thought out, professional situations prepared outside