Let’s complete your team.

Recruiting leadership talent?

It goes beyond a new hire. Executives and search committee chairs choose us to help set the conditions for comprehensive success.

1) Access to candidates. Curiosity defines our approach: it means we get time with the candidates you prefer to speak with.

2) Alignment with mission and message. How we represent you in the marketplace matters. Your search reflects your school’s ethos and values, and it must speak directly and resonate deeply with the professional who can make a real impact. Through our consultative approach, we seek to understand and convey what’s most important to you.

3) Change what’s true. If you can post a job or ping a list to land a good enough fit, do that. Work with us instead to make visible what’s hidden - both what you are really asking someone to do, and what’s most important to extraordinary candidates.

You’ll feel the difference in what we do, how we do it, and the outcome. Together, we complete your team.

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Clarity and candor generate options that don’t currently exist.

We serve boards that are hiring their next head of school, as well as heads who are recruiting senior leaders for key roles in fundraising and advancement, marketing, admissions, and the business office. (See our recent searches here.)

Candidates with options - the ones you’d like to engage - report a gap between what they’ve experienced on entry and what they were told in advance. Wouldn’t you be hesitant too the next time you were approached about an ‘exciting new role’?

We invite exploration by creating appropriate transparency about what it will feel like to join your team. And we foster meaningful connections between people. It’s not just a source of advantage for our clients, it’s what we believe.

When it is time for a search process that honors your priorities, we:

  • analyze your unique business problem

  • reach out directly to prospective candidates

  • actively manage risks

  • get buy-in from your team, and

  • secure top talent that sticks.

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To help you get more value from your recruiting efforts, we advise on team design, hiring process, succession planning, & governance behaviors.

In our consulting engagements we draw out and define opportunities. We identify gaps, provide context, and anticipate challenges looking ahead.

You emerge with clear recommendations benchmarked against comparison organizations around roles, team design, and compensation.

When you need to motivate and inspire your board and team with actionable insights and a plan customized for your needs, we can help.

Consulting services: Measure twice, hire once

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Our Invitation and Commitment to You:

  • We work as your partner.


    In all we do, we work as an extension of your team. As trustees ourselves we understand the fiduciary responsibility.

  • We address your full needs.


    Our success isn’t just measured by filling a seat or delivering a report. Your comprehensive need is our focus.

  • We discover opportunity.


    We create real talent options that both conform to your constraints and represent something unexpected.

  • We draw out your advantages.


    We listen for what is important to candidates to inspire their exploration of what’s so great about you.

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What our clients are saying:

Head of School

Chief Financial Officer search

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“I really appreciate your thoroughness, your insights, and your instincts. You ask great questions, and press on areas that need probing. The reasons we went with you originally and came back to you again for more recruiting work have all been confirmed. Your search process is really strong. And it’s awesome to work with you.” - Chris Day, Head of School at Cardigan Mountain School

ED of Development

Advancement search

“The way you go about the work differentiates you: real contacts, real vetting, real options. You clearly listened to us and what we wanted.” - John Coyle, former Executive Director for Advancement at Georgetown Preparatory School

Search Chair

Head of School search

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”You led a robust process that built trust with the hiring committee. The community feedback is that this was an inclusive search. And the outcome for securing a new Head of School could not have been better.” - Will Szal, Board Member at The Village School

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