March 24, 2025 – Allen Austin is a global management consulting firm specializing in retained executive search, leadership advisory, and interim leadership and project consulting, with partners managing client engagements from offices across North America and Europe. Allen Austin’s purpose is to enhance the lives and effectiveness of our associates, clients, and leaders of the world which means you come first. Having rejected order-taking and cookie-cutter solutions and ringing our cash register at our client’s expense, every retained search, leadership advisory, and board service 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 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 ForesightTM process, which has evolved over 28 years is the most advanced, evidence-based process of which we are aware, ensuring the best possible fit for our clients.
Industry: Government
Grand Cru Executive Search Partners
March 23, 2025 – Grand Cru Executive Search: Precision in Executive Hiring At Grand Cru Executive Search, we excel in matching exceptional candidates to roles, companies, and cultures with unparalleled precision. Combining years of executive search expertise with cutting-edge, data-driven tools and methodologies, we deliver near-perfect hires. Our proprietary methodology for precision hiring leverages a specialized and proven approach, enriched by scientifically-validated psychometric assessments. This rigorous process ensures candidates align seamlessly with the role’s skills, your company culture, and the necessary behavioral criteria. The results? Enhanced productivity, stronger team synergy, elevated morale, and improved performance. Ultimately, our success translates into strategic focus, business growth, increased ROI, and greater profitability for your organization. Industry Specialization Government Contracting (GovCon) Technology Management, Strategy & IT Consulting Executive Search Expertise We specialize in retained executive searches for: GTM/Growth/Sales Leaders P&L Leaders Practice Leaders Technology Leaders: AI/Analytics, Digital, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Platforms Managed Services Leaders Corporate Functions Leaders: HR, Finance, Accounting, Security, IT, Legal, Marketing Let us deliver the precision, expertise, and results you need to drive your organization forward.
CareerSMITH, Inc.
March 22, 2025 – CareerSMITH provides end-to-end recruiting services across all verticals of the Engineering, Construction, Government, and Energy industries. CareerSMITH conducts searches for a broad range of positions, including C-suite to director-level and senior management to technical positions. As former executives in this space, we have unique insights into the challenging, dynamic industries we serve. With over 27 years’ experience, CareerSMITH is a consultative recruitment firm, utilizing an adaptive process to facilitate an effective, efficient, and elevated hiring experience. CareerSMITH has developed a comprehensive recruitment process to identify and secure top-tier talent tailored to meet the unique needs of each client and position. CareerSMITH’s dedication to excellence is evident in its strong record of long-term candidate placements. The firm excels at identifying, qualifying, and recruiting top talent that drives lasting, positive impacts for its clients. Additionally, CareerSMITH’s focus on ethical practices and deep industry expertise has fostered a high level of client satisfaction, with 70% of clients returning for additional assignments within 18 months. CareerSMITH demonstrates a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and adheres to the AESC Diversity Pledge, actively promoting equitable leadership within the industries it serves. We regularly attend, sponsor, and speak at Industry Conferences. CareerSMITH is large enough to have the breadth of experience and depth in resources, yet small enough to have very few off limits conflicts. The firm’s ethical practices and in-depth industry knowledge make it a trusted partner for organizations seeking exceptional talent.
Odgers Berndtson
March 22, 2025 – Odgers Berndtson transforms organizational performance by recruiting and developing exceptional leaders and teams. Our global network of over 1,100 colleagues in 32 countries, means we have local knowledge powered by international insights and connections to create meaningful impact for our clients. From executive search to leadership and team assessment, coaching, succession management, and DEI consulting, we go beyond the expected to deliver modern, industry-shaping advice for our clients and candidates.
Egon Zehnder
March 22, 2025 – Egon Zehnder is the world’s preeminent leadership advisory firm, empowering today’s leaders with human-centric insights and transformative feedback to navigate their most complex challenges. Our team of 600+ consultants across 66 offices in 36 countries brings hands-on industry experience and collaborative spirit to every client to elevate individuals, organizations, and the world through leadership.
SPMB Executive Search
March 17, 2025 – SPMB is the #1 executive search firm serving the technology market and one of the largest independent retained search firms in the country. We specialize in recruiting C-Level Executives and Board Members to disruptive, growth-oriented startups as well as Fortune 500 companies in technology, sustainability, consumer, media, financial, and health industries. We bring the knowledge of a large, global firm and combine it with the personalized service and attention of a boutique to connect top executive talent to the best and fastest growing innovators across the country. Closing hundreds of C-Level searches annually, SPMB has recruited key leaders into companies that have generated over $1 trillion in market value for our clients.
ZRG
March 17, 2025 – ZRG is a global talent advisory firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent. ZRG’s data-driven approach to executive and professional search has been changing the way clients think about how to find top talent. The company’s digital Zi platform combines talent intelligence, candidate insights, and process improvement to dramatically deliver executive searches quicker and with proven better results. Today, with the help of private equity investor RFE Investment Partners, ZRG is among the fastest growing firms in the search industry and provides a full suite of retained search, on-demand talent, and consulting and advisory solutions across the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia.
Coleman Lew Canny Bowen
March 17, 2025 – Coleman Lew Canny Bowen (CLCB) is the 2019 combination of two nationally respected independent firms. Canny Bowen, a generalist firm with expertise in industrial and legal searches, was founded in New York in 1954. Coleman Lew was founded in Charlotte, NC in 1979 and got its start as a generalist firm with deep expertise in food-related sectors. With offices in New York and Charlotte, CLCB taps into an expansive global network that allows the firm to scout and recruit the very best talent. CLCB has recruited CEOs and other senior leaders across a wide array of sectors and has developed a vast network of sources and prospective candidates. CLCB serves public and private sector clients across the country.
CBIZ Talent and Compensation Solutions
March 17, 2025 – CBIZ Talent & Compensation Solutions is a trusted, data-driven and innovative business consultancy. With services that provide expert counsel, market intelligence, and process guidance, we will assist you in every step of the way to identify, attract, reward, develop and retain quality talent.
Gaia Human Capital Consultants
March 14, 2025 – Retained Executive Search Consultant and leadership Talent Partner serving a broad array of innovative clients including; corporates, investors, technology, all-stage of development and non-profit clients, focused in Climate-tech, ESG, corporate sustainability, cleantech and renewable energy companies and DEIB Leadership.
Ellis Kirk Group LLC
March 12, 2025 – EKG specializes in board services, retained executive search, succession planning, and leadership assessment. The relationships with our clients and executive talent have been cultivated over many years — and in some cases, decades — as they have progressed through the stages of their own development. It’s these relationships, along with the trust earned by providing exceptional service and continuously exceeding expectations, that sets EKG apart from other executive search firms. Our partners are led by an uncommon drive for excellence, a spirit of transparency and collaboration, as well as a fierce commitment to ensuring their teams are composed of the best of the best. We know that with this drive, you rely on us to find not only the most talented executives for your needs, but also those that closely align with your organization’s culture, vision, and values.
Princeton Legal Search Group, LLC
March 11, 2025 – Princeton Legal Search Group serves the legal community with honesty, integrity, and the highest level of ethics. We are raising the bar in legal search, which is why the world’s finest corporations, law firms, and institutions entrust their important searches to us. Lawyers rely on us when they are faced with critical career decisions. Honesty, ethics, and integrity distinguish us as a company, and we invite you to consider our Personal and Professional Code of Ethics and our Client Bill of Rights. Princeton Legal Search Group is a member of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC). Our Principal, Mary Clare Garber, is a NALSC Board of Directors member. We abide by NALSC’s Code of Ethics. Company Division Our Company Division serves the needs of our clients across multiple industries, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, consumer products, healthcare, manufacturing, media, and financial services. We specialize in Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel searches by helping senior legal leaders build their teams. Law Firm Division Our Law Firm Division provides diverse services to our large and small law firm clients. We are adept at recruiting and placing top-caliber partner and associate talent in AmLaw 100 to boutique firms. We identify exceptional talent and specialize in targeted geographical markets across all practice areas. Non-Profit/Higher Education Division Our Nonprofit/Higher education division works closely with the leadership at college/ university clients and other non-profit institutions to understand particular institutional requirements and deliver world-class attorneys. We excel at placing the first-ever General Counsel.
H.I.E.C
March 11, 2025 – H.I. Executive Consulting (H.I.E.C) is a leading global executive search firm focused on hiring Board, CEO and Senior-level executives globally. H.I.E.C was established by several senior partners from the leading global search firms to disrupt the traditional approach to executive search by placing a premium focus on hiring transformational leaders across the sectors we serve. Rapid globalization has given rise to new types of disruptive leaders, spread across the globe, in the traditional and transformative functional areas. At H.I.E.C, we are devoted to connecting the world’s leading corporations, Private Equity, and Venture Capital portfolio firms with this new wave of leaders to help our clients scale and win in the digitized economy. Operating across 13 offices in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, unified by one global P&L and delivery model, we have cultivated a new professional standard that challenges the competitors in our field. Our agile, borderless team structure enables us to deliver bespoke services from an integrated group of consultants working as one team focused on one goal: to deliver exceptional services and outstanding results in our clients’ best interests.
Waterford Global Inc.
March 11, 2025 – Waterford Global Inc. is a top-tier international executive search firm specialized in helping our clients build exceptional teams through the acquisition of equally exceptional talent. Clients retain our firm as a strategic partner and advisor in the recruitment of executive-level leaders and mid-to-senior level managerial, technical, and scientific talent. Working with a diverse client portfolio of domestic and international organizations, we contribute to their success in mature and emerging markets. With over 45 years of combined experience between our firm’s two Founding Partners, Karen Swystun and Fred Loewen, Waterford Global Inc. is a long-standing provider-of-choice to private sector and public sector clients in such key industry verticals as agribusiness, manufacturing, healthcare, private equity, professional and financial services, mining, energy & natural resources, construction & infrastructure, cleantech, and technology. Our geographical footprint includes satellite offices across Canada and globally, from which we regularly deliver our customized, high-touch, and high-value search and recruitment services.
ADK Consulting & Executive Search
March 10, 2025 – Founded in 2003, ADK is a retained boutique executive recruitment firm specializing in C-Suite positions. Utilizing our talented team of 25 professionals with strong industry expertise, we connect outstanding leaders to opportunities. ADK is an industry leader in executive recruiting with roots that date back to our 2003 incorporation in Jacksonville, Florida. Our early success in identifying and providing outstanding leaders has not only enhanced our clients’ organizations but provided a positive impact on their communities and regions. Many of these executive placements have affected legislation on the national level and are recognized as top industry leaders. We partner with our clients at the onset of every project and throughout the entire process. Our talented team of 25 professionals understands current and impending senior management and leadership issues. The methodology we employ includes thorough recruitment techniques. Each project is led by a seasoned team to conduct research, marketing, sourcing, personal outreach, extensive screening processes and outstanding communication with clients and candidates. Over 83% of our business comes from repeat clients. Often new business comes from referrals, not only from clients, but often from both successful and unsuccessful candidates who were impressed with our process and communication. ADK has become the largest executive recruitment firm in the Unites States for the airport industry, filling more CEO and C-Suite positions than any other recruitment firm with well over 600 CEO and C-Suite airport recruitments. Our clients are private and publicly held companies, authorities, cities and counties, special districts, trade associations, colleges & universities
The Energists
March 10, 2025 – Established in 1979, The Energists is a global search and advisory boutique focused on the energy sector and adjacent industries. The firm’s aim lies firmly on business outcomes for its clients’ – that is what happens after its work is done. With a team comprising former industry executives, technical experts, and functional professionals, a wealth of direct industry experience optimizes assignment cycle time and customer empathy. Domain expertise is foundational for The Energists: understanding the nuances, challenges, and opportunities within the energy ecosystem is where its core organizational competencies lie. These factors, as well as intrinsic sector network, commitment to continuous improvement, and comprehensive suite of behavioral and cognitive assessment tools, afford the delivery of tailored solutions to elevate clients’ teams while derisking strategies without compromise. The Energists’ typical search mandates include leadership and high impact individual contributor roles. Working across the private and public sectors, the firm’s portfolio of clients extends along the value stream and across value chains of energy, on a fuel source agnostic basis. These include Integrated Utilities (IOUs, POUs & Co-ops); Oil & Gas Companies; IPPs; Government; Transportation, Energy Banking / Financial Services / Investment (Equity & Debt); EPCIs; and Technology providers.
DHR Global
March 10, 2025 – DHR is a leading, privately-held provider of executive search, leadership consulting, and emerging leader search solutions in more than 50 markets spanning 22 countries. With expertise in more than 20 industries and functional areas, DHR pairs clients with resourceful consultants who have the most experience in their world. For more than 30 years, DHR has solved talent challenges by being connected, accountable, attentive, and prepared to hit the ground running to ensure clients have the best talent available. For more information, visit dhrglobal.com
International Executive Search Federation (IESF)
March 10, 2025 – Since 2002, successfully delivering local executive talent through a global network of IESF partners. International Executive Search Federation is one of the world’s most recognized international executive search groups / associations. Identifying talent and leadership in 50 offices and 25 countries, we are globally known as “The Local Experts” because we understand regional markets and their specific needs when it comes to executive recruitment. We offer a fully customized, local approach to search projects, based on culture, regional economics and the local candidate marketplace. We never seek to impose a “one-size-fits-all” solution. Our search process is optimized to the local culture.
Career Management Partners (CMP)
March 10, 2025 – CMP is a talent and transition firm dedicated to helping people and organizations thrive at every stage of the talent life cycle. We provide support in executive search/talent acquisition, leadership development, organizational growth, and outplacement services.
Griffith Group Executive Search
March 10, 2025 – Griffith Group Executive Search is a privately owned Canadian firm that provides exceptional services to our valued clients. Focused on senior-level recruitment, our team partners with organizations across Canada to support their executive search needs. We are deeply rooted in the values of integrity, professionalism, and empowered innovation and have a deep commitment to, and demonstrated results in, supporting Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Reconciliation (EDIA-R). Our approach is encapsulated within our vision: International Reach. Proven Expertise. Boutique Service.
