Search Firms
List of firms with experience managing searches for open positions at colleges and universities.
Founded by Jennifer Muller, ACES focuses on executive search services,
career planning and candidate
coaching. Specializing in challenging faculty to VP level positions,
they offer six a la carte services
starting at $12,000 spanning full search, candidate generation, interim,
multi-hire and contingency (pay
after hire) search. Candidate support services include webinars, career
planning and candidate coaching.
Advocate Staffing provides executive search, direct placement,
temp-to-hire, temporary staffing, and
outsourcing services for colleges and universities. According to their
website, they have experience with
private colleges, career colleges, and online education companies.
Another Source has served the higher education community since 1991 by
developing pools of candidates to
fill mid-level to director-level staff positions. Their program is built
on a 30 day engagement, with fees
ranging from $3,000-$6,500.
Offers a variety of services including executive search assistance to
governing boards of community
colleges.
Provides strategic and executive search services to higher education and
philanthropic organizations.
Provides retained professional executive search service to identify,
evaluate, and attract senior-level
administrative leadership for higher education clients, both public and
private.
C. V. O'Boyle, LLC has specialized in recruiting senior scholars and
administrators for colleges and
universities since 2005. Their list of former and current clients
includes over 20 colleges and
universities.
Established in 1999, Ccentric Group is an international executive search
firm with a focus on healthcare,
academic healthcare, digital health, not-for-profit, and human services.
Collegiate Counsel, Inc. specializes in higher education executive
search. The firm is headed by Jon McRae
and employs a number of consultants with higher education experience.
Development Guild/DDI specializes in executive search for development
professionals at colleges,
universities, and other non-profit organizations.
Ed-Exec, Inc. specializes in executive search for education
institutions. They have experience filling dean
and vice president level positions, both administrative and academic,
for non-profit and for-profit colleges
and universities.
Founded in 1976, Emerson Professionals has managed searches for higher
education positions since 2010. They
focus on nursing leadership positions in academia, as well as campus
presidents and academic deans.
Fisher Leadership is an Australian-owned executive search and leadership
advisory firm. The firm and its
consultants have experience conducting searches for high level positions
at a variety of non-profit
organizations, including colleges and universities, primarily in
Australia and New Zealand.
Search firm with experience serving non-profit organizations, government
agencies, for-profit corporations,
as well as some colleges and universities.
Gonser Gerber Search provides search services for advancement positions
at universities, colleges,
healthcare institutions, schools, and other non-profit organizations.
Haley Associates is a boutique retained higher education consulting and
executive search firm. They
specialize in presidential, vice presidential and dean searches, both
permanent and interim placements.
An executive search and board advisory consulting firm with experience
in a variety of industries, including
higher education. Has conducted over 875 higher education assignments
for positions such as CEO, COO, CFO,
provost, dean, vice president, and other high level administrators.
Specializes exclusively in securing construction, engineering,
facilities management, and real estate asset
management professionals for colleges, universities, and other
organizations.
Higher Education Leadership Search was founded in 2017 and has
experience conducting searches for academic
deans, faculty, and mid to upper level administrators.
Hodges Partners LLC is a retained executive search firm. Within higher
education, they have managed searches
in academic healthcare.
Founded in 1989, The Hudson Group provides executive search and related
services to colleges and
universities. According to the firm's website, they work with a network
of venture capital/private equity
groups, colleges and universities, and publicly-traded education
corporations.
Conducts nationwide searches for a variety of not-for-profit and select
for-profit organizations.
JDRQUEST&CO is an executive search firm dedicated to recruiting talent
in the higher education and
hospitality industries. They have more than 20 years experience placing
talent in hospitality companies and
colleges and universities.
Keeling & Associates has handled executive search for student affairs
and health related positions at the
senior, associate, and assistant vice president level.
Provides executive human capital solutions including recruitment,
assessment, and development.
A retained search firm with experience conducting high level assignments
for senior executives and
administrators. Experience in many industries including manufacturing,
financial services, consumer
products, and higher education/not for profit.
Executive search firm solely dedicated to the recruitment of development
and institutional advancement
professionals. Client roster encompasses leading colleges, universities,
medical centers, social services,
and arts institutions.
With offices in San Diego, CA and Cambridge, MA, Millennial Tech
provides IT Staffing and Project Management
for Institutions in Higher Education.
Since 1984, Myers McRae has provided executive search services to higher
education institutions and
not-for-profit organizations across the nation. The firm has recruited
chancellors, presidents, provosts,
vice presidents, deans, endowed chairs, executive directors, and
specialized faculty.
Specializes in executive search for senior information technology
positions (typically chief information
officers) for colleges, universities, and non-profit associations.
Odgers Berndtson is a global executive search and leadership advisory
firm. Their Leadership Practice helps
organizations strategically manage executive selection, succession and
development. Services include
executive and leadership team assessment, coaching and onboarding.
According to the firm's web site, Parker Executive Search has conducted
more than 400 successful higher
education searches for chancellor, president, vice president, provost,
dean, chair, director, and collegiate
athletic positions.
Pauly Group, an academic search consulting firm, has assisted community
and technical colleges with senior
administrative searches since 1990.
Serves as search counsel to higher education. The 14-member firm
specializes in presidential and
senior-level administrative search.
Provides consultation in executive search, organizational and leadership
development, marketing, and
strategic planning for a variety of organizations including colleges and
universities.
Provides executive search and assessments services to a variety of
industries, including higher education.
Scott Healy & Associates is a veteran-owned consulting firm working
exclusively in Higher Education. SH&A
focuses on national executive searches in the following areas:
Enrollment Management, Admissions, Financial
Aid, Registration, Student and Alumni Affairs, along with niche markets
in Health Sciences, the Arts, and
Athletics. In addition to national executive searches, SH&A offers
interim placements in the areas of
enrollment management, admissions, registration, financial aid and
student affairs.
Founded in 1991, the Spelman and Johnson Group provides executive search
services for colleges and
universities. Experience helping higher education institutions hire
candidates for a variety of
administrative positions including admissions, counseling, financial
aid, financial administration, student
affairs, and residential life.
A member of The Diversified Search Group, Storbeck Search & Associates
is a woman-led search firm
specializing in executive searches for colleges, universities,
independent schools, and nonprofits.
Summit Search Solutions is a boutique firm that has specialized in
higher education and non-profit search
since 2001. Summit offers tiered service options that allow for client
customization and flexibility in
selecting services. They offer a comprehensive model as well as two
sourcing-based models.
Founded in 2000, The Human Capital Group provides a variety of human
capital needs for its clients, roughly
6% of which are related to higher education, with leadership consulting
and executive search solutions.
An executive search firm that specializes in filling executive positions
at colleges and universities and
non-profit organizations.
Founded in 1976, Academic Search is one of higher education’s first
search firms. The company provides search services for colleges and
universities looking to hire senior officers including presidents,
provosts, academic vice presidents, and administrative vice presidents.
AGB Search assists colleges, universities, systems, coordinating boards,
and institutionally related foundations in planning for, recruiting,
selecting, and transitioning new executive leaders. AGB Search is an
affiliate of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and
Colleges.
Aspen Leadership Group is an executive search and consulting firm that
places, coaches, and trains leaders in advancement. Led by former
fundraising executives, ALG has helped hundreds of colleges,
universities, arts organizations, and other non-profits fill senior and
mid-level development positions
Specializes in executive search services for colleges, universities,
health care, and not-for-profit organizations.
Founded in 1994, Berkhemer Clayton, Inc. has provided senior-level
Communications, Marketing, Finance, and HR searches for universities and
colleges, primarily on the West Coast.
Buffkin / Baker is a retained, executive search firm that has conducted
over 550 searches for universities and colleges for various executive
level and academic positions within higher education.
CarterBaldwin provides executive search services for a variety of
industries, including higher education and non-profit organizations.
According to their website, they focus primarily on presidential and
senior cabinet level positions.
Cejka Executive Search has provided services exclusively to the health
care industry and health-related academic organizations since 1981.
Retained executive search firm with experience conducting searches for
development and chief financial officers at colleges and universities.
Provides executive search firm recruiting services for senior-level
management positions in a variety of industries, including education and
non-profits
An executive search firm with over 40 years of experience, EFL
Associates finds professional, qualified and highly motivated candidates
who align precisely with the needs and requirements of their client
colleges and universities.
Excelon Associates is an executive search firm specializing in staffing
and recruiting needs in education, financial services, and healthcare
industries. Excelon offers placement of candidates in permanent,
contract, temporary, and interim roles.
Conducts national searches for client institutions for leadership
positions in higher education, specializing in Enrollment Management,
Admissions, Registrar, Financial Aid, and Student Financial Services.
Consulting firm specializing in executive searches, capital campaign
services, major gift programs, organizational development, and strategic
planning for non-profit organizations. Past experience with higher
education searches has primarily been for development and fund raising
positions.
A women-owned executive search firm with experience in executive search
for elementary, secondary, and higher education as well as for
non-profit associations and cultural institutions.
Past experience conducting searches for development officers.
Past experience conducting searches for development officers.
Heidrick & Struggles specializes in senior-level executive search and
leadership consulting. They have over 50 years of experience helping a
wide variety of clients including multinational corporations, non-profit
entities, educational institutions, foundations, associations, and
governmental units.
Provides strategic planning, information technology, financial strategy,
and international faculty recruitment consulting services to higher
education and not-for-profit organizations.
Specializes in development and fundraising searches for higher education
and other non-profits.
Consultancy company which provides search services to organizations
looking to fill senior and executive level positions.
Hyatt-Fennell places top executives with higher educational institutions
nationwide.
Founded in 1995, Janet Wright & Associates specializes in senior-level
recruiting for mission-driven organizations in the public and
not-for-profit sectors, primarily colleges and universities.
Kaye/Bassman International, Corp. offers recruitment solutions for a
variety of industries, including higher education.
Provides executive searches exclusively for non-profit organizations.
Koya Leadership Partners is a national executive search firm dedicated
to placing leaders at non-profit organizations. The company expanded its
higher education practice in 2017 by merging with Neumann Executive
Search Partners.
Lapovsky Consulting is a boutique retained higher education search firm
which specializes in searches of chief financial and administrative
officers, including both permanent and interim placements.
Search firm specializing in a variety of industry searches including
human resources, non-profits, fundraising and development, sales and
marketing executives, attorneys, insurance, and hospitality.
Morris & Berger is a generalist executive search firm that specializes
in serving the non-profit sector, including institutions of higher
education, independent schools, and foundations. They have recruited
presidents and other officers, board members, directors, and other
professional staff.
NAPIER Executive Search specializes in identifying individuals in the
enrollment management field for colleges and universities across the
country.
Search firm that specializes in non-profit organizations including
higher education, foundations, associations, and K-12.
Founded in 2003, Opus Partners conducts senior-level searches for
clients in higher education, healthcare, and the broader not-for-profit
world.
Paschal Murray, Inc. has experience handling executive level searches
for fundraising, non-profit management, and other organizational
advancement positions. Operating since 1978, the firm's roster of
current and previous searches includes several universities, research
institutions, and hospitals.
R. William (Bill) Funk, founder and President of R. William Funk &
Associates, has conducted more than 300 searches for college and
university presidents and chancellors
The Registry’s mission is to place interim presidents and senior
administrators in colleges and universities, with the goal of achieving
solid leadership transitions.
Experience conducting searches for a number of colleges and universities
for a variety of positions including presidents, provosts, development
officers, vice presidents, and executive directors.
Specializes in senior-level searches for academic institutions and
related not-for-profits.
This generalist firm is national in scope and has worked with colleges,
universities, and other non-profit organizations. They have experience
conducting management level searches in finance,
communications/marketing, human resources, student affairs, and academic
administration.
Spencer Stuart's education, non-profit, and public policy practice
recruits high-level academic, administrative, and advancement executives
for academic and nongovernmental organizations.
Storbeck/Pimentel & Associates is a minority-owned retained executive
search firm specializing in providing executive recruitment services to
colleges and universities.
The Babb Group, Inc. is an academic job placement service. They work
with higher education candidates, not employers, helping them to find
new careers in academia.
Founded in 1998, Vortechs Group specializes in searches for technology
transfer, sponsored research, commercialization, and technology based
economic development. Past clients include a wide variety of prominent
academic institutions and national laboratories.
Witt/Kieffer supports organizations in higher education, healthcare,
academic medicine, the life sciences, and the not-for-profit sector with
executive search, leadership solutions, and board services.
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