Academic Career & Executive Search (ACES)
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 four a la carte services spanning enhanced search, full search, candidate generator plus, and interim search.
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For more than four decades, Academic Search has been partnering with higher education institutions and associations. Its mission is to enhance institutional capacity by providing executive recruitment services, executive coaching, and transition support, in collaboration with its parent organization, the American Academic Leadership Institute.
LessAdkisson Search Consultants
Founded in 2001, Adkisson Search Consultants' primary focus is on placing candidates at healthcare organizations. They also have experience conducting searches for medical faculty at colleges and universities.
LessAdvocate Staffing
Advocate Staffing provides retained search, contingency search, and engaged search. Originally exclusive to the higher education industries, post-Covid they have broadened their experience across various industries and have filled over 5,000 positions.
LessAGB Search
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.
LessAMI Network
AMI Network is a nationwide executive search firm that specializes in filling higher education leadership roles within health sciences. They have led searches for a variety of higher education positions including faculty, human resources leadership, deans, provosts, and medical faculty.
LessAnother Source
With over 30 years of experience, Another Source serves the recruiting needs of the higher education community. Specializing in mid to AVP-level positions, they develop personalized pools of candidates within 30 days. Their flat-fee structure ranges from $4,950 to $15,000.
LessAspen Leadership Group
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.
LessAssociation of Community College Trustees
ACCT offers a variety of services including executive search assistance to governing boards of community colleges.
LessAyers & Associates Inc.
Ayers provides strategic and executive search services to higher education and philanthropic organizations.
LessBerkhemer Clayton, Inc.
Berkhemer Clayton’s Higher Education, Nonprofit, and Healthcare Practice provides executive search services nationwide. Specialty areas include Marketing, Communications, Finance, and Human Resources.
LessBoyden Global Executive Search
Boyden provides retained professional executive search services to identify, evaluate, and attract senior-level administrative leadership for higher education clients, both public and private.
LessBRYANT GROUP
Bryant Group is an executive search and leadership consulting firm. They specialize in higher education, healthcare, and nonprofits with an emphasis on advancement leaders and other executives. They also provide Talent Development and Leadership Coaching.
LessBuffkin / Baker
Buffkin / Baker is a retained, executive search firm that has conducted over 650 searches for universities and colleges for various executive level and academic positions within higher education.
LessC. V. O’Boyle, LLC
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.
LessCarterBaldwin
CarterBaldwin provides executive search services for a variety of industries, including higher education and non-profit organizations. Their focus is primarily on presidential and senior cabinet level positions.
LessCcentric Group
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.
LessCejka Executive Search
Cejka Executive Search has provided services exclusively to the health care industry and health-related academic organizations since 1981.
LessColeman Lew Canny Bowen
Coleman Lew Canny Bowen is a woman-owned executive search firm operating out of North Carolina and New York. Since 1954, they have conducted searches for various industries including higher education, government and nonprofits, and healthcare.
LessDeerfield Associates Executive Search, Inc.
Retained executive search firm with experience conducting searches for development and chief financial officers at colleges and universities.
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