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About Us

Wilson’s executive search team places high-impact leadership talent, working in partnership with clients to understand their cultures and long-term strategic goals. With a focus on in-depth research and candidate experience, Wilson’s consultants employ a collaborative approach with each client. The search team is also supported by the company’s global talent acquisition, technology and innovation leaders and leverages their expertise as needed – something that traditional search firms can’t match.

There are four customizable models within Wilson’s executive search solutions to help clients secure the leadership their businesses need to reach their goals:

RETAINED EXECUTIVE SEARCH

This end-to-end solution provides strategic support from our dedicated team to fill director-level and above roles within your organization, addressing both immediate and future hiring needs with unrivaled expertise.

PROJECT SEARCH SOLUTIONS

Our end-to-end executive search hiring support is available for executive staffing and leadership projects that require 10 or more director-level and above hires. This solution is popular with organizations that need to scale at speed, M&A related activity (including spin-offs, IPOs and divestments) and international expansions to ensure successful outcomes for your critical hires.

INTERIM EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Leveraging our extensive executive talent pipelines and world-renowned talent intelligence tools, we provide interim leadership talent at speed, minimizing disruption at your company.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Our comprehensive AI-powered talent intelligence solutions, which encompass supply and demand data, talent mapping, talent pipelining and compensation benchmarking, drives leadership strategy and succession planning, giving your organization a competitive advantage.

Achievements

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Our mission is to deliver business-impacting results for our clients. We are passionate about making a difference in people’s lives and this passion has gained the trust of some of the world’s largest businesses. We have built these relationships by investing in our people, driving innovation at all levels of our organization, and providing scale and flexibility to meet the unique needs of our clients.

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Solutions And Expertise

Wilson’s executive search practice executes on global searches for clients across a variety of industries, including those in software, food and beverage, industrial manufacturing, airlines, automotive, mobile applications and services, telecommunications, robotics, healthcare, life sciences, technology and logistics. Wilson’s executive search team has maintained a diversity hire rate greater than 50% in each year of operation. Additionally, Wilson’s executive search team delivers organizational buildouts, including finance and IT leadership teams. In 2024, Wilson was named to Hunt Scanlon Media’s 2024 ‘HR/Diversity Top 70’ search firms. Phil Brakewell, who leads Wilson’s executive search practice, has also been named to SIA’s Staffing 100 Europe for 2023 list. The annual list recognizes influential European staffing leaders boldly creating new pathways within the transforming workforce solutions ecosystem

Solutions
  • Advisory Services
  • Assessment
  • Culture Shaping
  • Data Analy./Mrkt. Intell.
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Executive Search
  • Flex RPO
  • Leadership Consulting
  • On-Demand Recruiting
  • Onboarding
  • Org. Chart Mapping
  • Recruitment Research
  • Succession Planning
Industries
  • Clean Tech./Sustain.
  • Cloud Based
  • Consumer
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data & Analytics
  • Devices
  • Digital
  • Financial Services
  • High Tech
  • Industrial
  • Internet
  • Life Sci./Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Mobile
  • Professional Services
  • Software
  • Technology
Functions
  • Business Development
  • Customer Service
  • Data/Analytics
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Finance/Accounting
  • General Management
  • GM/Operations
  • Human Resources
  • Information/Digital
  • Investor Relations
  • Legal/Compliance
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Medical/Clinical
  • Research & Develop.
  • Supply Chain

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News Briefings

Talent Continues to be the Driving Force Behind Private Equity Firms

It has never been harder to attract top talent to private equity and PE portfolio companies. “We’re seeing a huge reluctance to leave jobs for anything less than top brands, and successfully recruiting out the absolute all-stars is requiring more than just outsized economics,” said Jordan Brugg, global head of private equity for Spencer Stuart.

WilsonHCG Integrates Recent Acquisitions

Global talent solutions provider Wilson Human Capital Group (WilsonHCG) has announced that two of its brands, Profile Search & Selection (Profile) and Personify, are being fully integrated into WilsonHCG in the coming weeks. The integration follows the acquisitions of Profile and Personify, which closed in 2020 and 2023, respectively. Profile is an executive search firm with offices

Claro Analytics Names VP of Partnerships

Claro Analytics, a WilsonHCG company and global labor market intelligence provider, has appointed Marc Mapes as vice president of partnerships. “We’re delighted Marc has joined the Claro team,” said Michael Beygelman, founder of Claro and now EVP of product at WilsonHCG. “Demand for real-time labor market intelligence is growing rapidly because it gives companies the ability to forecast

WilsonHCG Acquires Personify

Global talent solutions provider Wilson Human Capital Group (WilsonHCG) has acquired Personify, a Raleigh, NC-based recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Personify is one of the largest life sciences and healthcare RPO providers in the world, so this expansion enables continued growth while cementing our position as a global leader

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Press Releases

Abbott Laboratories Ranked No.1 for Employment Branding in WilsonHCG Report   

Abbott Laboratories takes the No.1 spot, followed by Intel in second place and Cisco and P&G tied for third. -Tampa, Fla, — Global talent leader WilsonHCG has published its annual Fortune 100 Employment Branding Report. In its ninth year of publication, the award-winning report evaluates and ranks the employment brands of the Fortune 100 through

WilsonHCG Enhances Talent Intelligence Capabilities with the Acquisition of Claro Analytics

(April 2022) WilsonHCG, a global talent leader, today announced the acquisition of Claro Analytics as it continues to grow its talent intelligence capabilities. Claro Analytics, which was established in 2014 by Michael Beygelman, is a leading talent intelligence technology platform with unique capabilities to provide real-time talent market insights to help organizations make more evidence-based,

WilsonHCG’s 2022 Employment Branding Report Analyzes the Employment Brands of a Range of Organizations

(April 2022) In its eighth year of publication, this year’s report features some major changes and, for the first time ever, now includes analysis of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Covering 15,000+ data points, a team of researchers evaluated each of the 139 companies in the following categories: recruitment marketing, accolades, corporate social responsibility (CSR),

WilsonHCG Once Again Recognized as a Top RPO Provider in EMEA, again

(Nov. 2021) WilsonHCG, a global leader in talent solutions, has been recognized on HRO Today magazine’s annual EMEA RPO Baker’s Dozen list, again.   The 2021 list, which rates service providers on a variety of factors including breadth of service, size of deal and quality of service, highlights the top RPO providers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, (EMEA).  “Being ranked on the EMEA Baker’s