We don't send you CVs. We bring you the person.
Retained executive search across the United States, backed by a global platform of 60 offices in more than 50 countries, and a practice built to find the people who are not looking.
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Retained, confidential, direct-approach search for board, C-suite and senior leadership mandates. No advertisement, no waiting for applications. We map the market, approach the people who are not looking, and present a shortlist we are willing to defend, with a written recommendation and an honest view of the risks. First profiles typically within two to three weeks, with a 180-day replacement guarantee on retained and 90 days on contingent.
Professional and specialist hiring across every sector we serve, director, manager and senior individual contributor level. Database search, targeted advertising and direct sourcing, combined. Faster and lighter than a retained search, with the same standard of assessment behind every candidate we put in front of you.
No single sector dominates our book. A diversified book is a defensible book, and it means we understand where your leaders are coming from, and where they might go next.
The deepest, highest-paying search market in the United States — and the one where nobody is applying.
Hotel groups, resorts, management companies, gaming operators and PE-backed hospitality platforms — the sector where our network runs deepest.
Health systems, biotech, pharma and medical technology — ISG's dedicated global healthcare division.
Technology, SaaS and digital-asset companies are rebuilding their leadership benches — and the top of the org chart moves first.
Retail, food and beverage, e-commerce and consumer brands — shaped by migration, tourism and Latin American trade.
From aerospace and defense through advanced manufacturing and process — technical leadership, with a P&L attached to it.
Ports, air cargo, cross-border corridors and national distribution networks. Logistics leadership is infrastructure leadership.
Two adjacent ISG sector groups with structural demand: professional-services leadership, and the people building the country.
The fastest-growing title in the C-suite, a small, densely networked, almost entirely passive market.
Effectively full employment.
Nobody applies; every hire is a move.
When a company relocates or expands into a new market, the leadership comes and the staff largely stay behind. Within a year a senior bench has to be built from nothing, in a market the business does not yet know. We are built for exactly that moment — wherever in the United States that market is.
Relocating or expanding into the United States, and rebuilding a leadership bench with no local network to do it from.
Executives moving between US markets — and arriving from Europe and Latin America — who need someone on the ground who knows the market and the players.
Established businesses upgrading the bench, with the reach of a 50-country platform behind the search.
A sourcing exercise that used to take two weeks produces a ranked long-list the same day. Market maps ship overnight. Every approach is written for the person receiving it, in five languages. And every judgment that matters, who to present, who to cut, whether they will survive your board, is still made by someone who has done this for twenty-five years.
"We use technology to find more people, and judgment to present fewer."
A retained search is exclusive to us and never advertised. Your company name is only shared with a candidate once they have been qualified and briefed under a verbal NDA. Internal moves, board changes and replacements are handled without a footprint in the market. References are taken with your permission, on named targets, not by broadcasting your interest.
A 60-minute working session to define the role, the person, the market to approach, and the fee. You sign, we start.
We map the target companies, identify the right people inside them, and approach each one directly and confidentially. No adverts, no inbound CVs.
Within two to three weeks, three to five interviewed and referenced candidates, with a written recommendation and an honest view of the risks.
Interview coordination, offer negotiation, resignation support, and a 180-day replacement guarantee if the hire does not work out.
Prefer a lighter engagement — contingent, exclusive, or retained lite? See which engagement model fits your search →
Fifteen minutes is usually enough for us both to know whether we can help.
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