Founded in 1985, Slayton Search Partners is a premier retained executive search firm dedicated to recruiting top executive talent to client companies throughout the globe. We know how important it is to find a partner who can understand your needs, recruit best-in-class talent, and counsel you toward a successful conclusion of the search process.
Built on strong principles of knowledge, integrity, communication and quality, we’ve evolved alongside an ever shifting business landscape, gaining insight and expertise while crafting a better search alternative.
Our way of Limit-Less® thinking and acting has made us one of the fastest-growing executive search firms in North America, building a distinguished roster of clients and attracting more of the top candidates sought after by top firms and organizations
Our approach begins with the right people — people who consistently go beyond the acceptable to the exceptional.
Each executive search leader is a real expert in select, carefully chosen areas of practice expertise. We’re a team of ‘the best of the best’ — people who know what it takes to carry out effective searches efficiently, professionally and effectively.
Attracting senior management talent in any industry can be challenging. Slayton’s exceptional consultants invest countless time and energy to build industry domain expertise and relationships with leaders in these verticals.
As budgets tighten and leaders prepare for a possible recession, recruiters say that investing in the employee experience is still a high priority. Most economists agree that the economy is in an unusual state, leaving them unsure if and when a recession might occur and what it will look like. A new report by Slayton Search
The demands placed on corporate leadership seem to have skyrocketed. Being the boss has never been easy, but in the wake of the pandemic, a CEO’s path to success has only become more fraught with challenge and complexity, according to a recent report from Slayton Search Partners’ Richard Slayton. “Add to that the rising tides
You’ve heard the buzzwords by now. All it takes is one scroll through LinkedIn to become quickly acquainted with terms like “The Great Resignation” and “candidate-driven markets.” A small cadre of job seekers among the top percentile of talent are able to write their own ticket, picking and choosing where they land, according to Richard Slayton,
By now, the term “Great Resignation” has reached cliché status, providing us with a caricatured vision of a great exodus of workers, boxed possessions in hand as they leave the building once and for all. But the sore truth is that millions of employees continue to re-evaluate their careers and seek new opportunities, leaving employers
(July 2023) Slayton Search Partners, a globally respected leader in retained executive search, is excited to announce that Allison McWeeney and Bo Murray have both been promoted to the position of Vice President and Principal. Allison and Bo will be focused on supporting Slayton partners with engagements in the consumer and industrial groups, respectively, while
(July 2023) DAN DUNN Executive Vice President The role of the private equity CFO has become business-critical, but rising demand and turnover will continue to challenge PE firms. In times of volatility, financial stability becomes an understated hallmark of business success. Private equity (PE) firms have, appropriately, responded to the severe macroeconomic challenges of recent
(June 2023) RICHARD SLAYTON Managing Partner & CEO Supply chain disruption and inflation continue to challenge executives, but the future of CPG is promising, and the strongest CPG brands look to innovate. In 2021, mid-pandemic but safely past the initial crisis, we assessed the current state of the CPG market. Having witnessed the sector face heavy
(June 2023) JAY DAPRILE Executive Vice President The insurance market has been remarkably resilient in the current landscape, but securing insurance talent for the future is a top priority. The insurance industry, in recent times, has battled with a plethora of challenging events. From the COVID-19 pandemic and potential recession to the Russian invasion of
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