Recruiting leadership talent for schools and nonprofits.

We approach our work with curiosity.

Curiosity defines our success: it means we get time with the candidates you prefer to speak with. When you need to attract talented leaders, our education practice provides comprehensive recruiting services to schools, colleges, and nonprofits.

As former educators and administrators, we appreciate that your needs extend beyond simply filling a role. Through our consultative approach, we lead with listening and seek to understand what’s most important to you. As recruiters, how we represent you in the marketplace matters because your search efforts should reflect your organization’s ethos, business opportunity, and mission.

Let’s complete your team.

We drive successful recruiting results through relationship building, informed by custom research.

We serve boards that are hiring their next head of school, as well as heads who are recruiting for senior leaders for fundraising and advancement, marketing, admissions, and the business office.

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.

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

We also benchmark against comparison organizations around roles, team design, and compensation.

When you need solutions that are grounded in actionable insights customized for your needs, we can help.

We advise on team design, hiring process, succession planning, & governance behaviors to help leaders get more value from their recruiting efforts.

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

Head of School walking a foggy paved path with autumn leaves on the trees.

“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.”

VP 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.”

Board Chair

Head of School search

Teacher leading class outside at a whiteboard on an easel with young students.

”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.”

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