Executive Search
Executive transitions are pivot points; the right candidate can dramatically alter the trajectory of your organization. With the stakes so high, we know it's not enough to identify someone with the right experience. The best candidate must also have the ability to fit the culture and the influence to rally the business around their vision.
As a leading retained executive search firm, we work on an exclusive basis to identify top talent for critical leadership positions, ensuring cultural fit and delivering the right candidate for your organization.
For more than 70 years, we've helped some of the world's most storied companies build successful and diverse leadership teams. Our relationship-based search process lets us execute an executive search with uncommon speed, sophistication, and precision. Through our tech-enabled assessments, we help clients shrink the haystack and find the right fit. And after a successful placement, our executive search consultants offer the consultative expertise clients need to thrive in the long term.
Our Executive Search Methodology
Finding the right fit requires precision and transparency. Our retained executive search and assessment methodology begins with understanding your organizational culture and business challenges, then leverages our global network to source both active and passive candidates. We assess prospective candidates for technical capabilities, leadership potential, and cultural fit to ensure we present you with the best candidate.
Our retained search approach continues beyond the hire. We provide support through interviews, reference checks, negotiations, and onboarding, as well as ongoing consultation to ensure successful executive role transitions. This exclusive basis engagement allows us to focus fully on succession planning and building leadership teams that deliver results.
Board Monitor 2025: The quiet power of continuous board refreshment
Our CEO & Board of Directors Practice examines how and why high-performing companies treat board refreshment as a strategic discipline.
Chief people officer of 2030: Building a tool kit to get from here to there
Our executive search consultants gathered insights from more than 50 CPOs at leading companies, identifying three key areas where top talent in HR leadership roles should focus as they evolve to deliver both strategic and operational performance for their management teams.
The Interim Executive Advantage
See how interim executives can bridge critical leadership gaps, build capacity, and deliver immediate impact for your organization. Learn about perfect scenarios to engage an interim leader, how to maximize their impact, and real success stories from interim executive search placements.
Board Monitor 2025: Around the Globe
Board Monitor 2025: Interactive data dashboard
Route to the Top 2025: Charting more effective ascents to the summit
This report, part of our Route to the Top series, reviews the current state of succession planning globally, why more boards aren’t moving more intentionally, and some observations about the possible future of CEO succession planning.
Why choose Heidrick & Struggles
As a premier executive search firm with a proud history in the United States and worldwide, we combine decades of relationship-driven expertise with data-driven methodologies to identify the right leaders for every opportunity. From vice presidents and senior executives to C-suite leaders and board members, our executive search consultants are dedicated to delivering transformative talent that drives measurable organizational success.
Through our retained executive search approach, each engagement receives the focused attention it deserves—ensuring we uncover and attract high-impact leaders who can strengthen your leadership bench and position your organization for long-term growth.
Connect with our team today to learn how our executive search services can help you build the leadership strength and competitive advantage needed to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape.