How to Recruit Executives Out of SpaceX and Google
By Allison Cox, Director of Executive Search — Allison Cox places C-suite leaders across public, private, and nonprofit organizations. She takes a strategic, consultative approach to finding and engaging hard-to-reach talent, balancing urgency and quality to fill roles that drive organizational impact. Her recent searches span advanced manufacturing, building automation, and structured finance. Every board
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Executive Onboarding: Where a Great Hire Becomes a Great Tenure
By Shawn Cole, President & Founder — Shawn Cole is a nationally recognized authority on CEO recruiting. His insights regularly appear in Forbes, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and other leading publications, delivering nuanced and critical analysis on executive recruitment, succession planning, enterprise transformation, and the evolving demands of
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Diagnose Before You Prescribe: A Better Way to Open a Search
By Ash Wendt, Executive Recruiter & Cowen Partners Co-Founder — Ash Wendt is a trusted thought leader and premier authority on executive recruitment, visionary leadership, turnarounds, culture fit, C-suite assessment, executive compensation, and more across all industries. As President & Co-Founder of Cowen Partners, Ash Wendt is a pioneering leader and visionary thinker in C-Suite
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What Companies Need to Know Before Hiring Big 4 Tax Talent, and the Risks No One Talks About
By Shawn Cole, President & Founder — Shawn Cole is a nationally recognized authority on tax executive recruiting. His insights regularly appear in Forbes, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and other leading publications, delivering nuanced and critical analysis on executive recruitment, succession planning, enterprise transformation, and the evolving demands
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How New CEOs Should Assess an Inherited Leadership Team
When a new CEO steps into a role, the scrutiny tends to follow them along with their track record, their leadership style, and even their stated vision for transformation. While it is a tidy narrative, it is also incomplete. Executives do not execute in isolation. They inherit a team that evolved organically over time, shaped
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10 Executive Interview Questions That Reveal How Leaders Operate
Executive hiring still leans too heavily on instinct dressed up as judgment. With a polished narrative attached to a recognizable company name and a few confident answers, the decision has effectively been made before the process concludes. The reality catches up approximately six months later, which is an expensive place to receive that information. The
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Guide to Better Outcomes in C-Suite Recruitment
With the wrong search firm, executive search failure rates can hover near 40%. This statistic is a wake-up call for every board of directors. Most of these failures stem from the hiring organization rather than the recruiter. New leadership teams often view recruitment and as a passive task where they simply wait for results. This
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Why Board-Approved Job Specs Are Undermining Executive Hiring Speed
Executive recruiting ought to be quicker and more strategically aligned than it was before 2026. The market is volatile, and technology cycles are compressed. Even the leadership tenures are shorter by design. And yet, many boards are still starting executive searches with documents that belong to a different era. The irony is hard to miss.
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Is HR Blocking Your Best Candidates? The Governance Problem Executives Miss
Your human resources (HR) team has most likely grown exponentially in influence over the past decade. They’re at the strategy table, they own talent processes, and they shape succession planning. The CHRO reports directly to the CEO and has board access. This evolution came from good intentions. As companies recognized that talent drives competitive advantage,
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Legacy Search Firms Are Selling You a Name. Modern Executive Search Delivers Outcomes.
By Shawn Cole, President & Founder — Shawn Cole is a nationally recognized authority on CEO recruiting. His insights regularly appear in Forbes, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and other leading publications, delivering nuanced and critical analysis on executive recruitment, succession planning, enterprise transformation, and the evolving demands of
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