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Building a strong, cohesive senior leadership team is no easy matter. Identifying and recruiting talented leaders—the first step—can be the biggest challenge of all.
Bridgespan’s executive search services are designed to help you find and recruit leaders who can drive strategies and help deliver on your organization’s mission.
Practice
Bridgespan works with organizations that seek to achieve measureable and meaningful results in a variety of domains, including youth development, education, the environment, and community development. Our clients are operating nonprofits and foundations that recognize and appreciate the value of leadership talent.
Bridgespan executive search services are characterized by:
Focus on nonprofit senior leaders
Bridgespan’s executive search consultants serve organizations seeking to secure talent at the senior level. We recruit for Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer; Chief Operating Officer; Chief Financial Officer; Vice President/Director of Marketing/Communications, Human Resources, External Affairs, Evaluation and Program positions.
Experience and expertise
Our team has more than 150 years of combined experience with top-tier executive search and human capital consulting firms. We have proudly and successfully placed senior leaders in nonprofit organizations across a variety of domains.
Deep networks
Organizations creating new roles or seeking new pools of talent may need to broaden their searches, access new networks or try different approaches to recruiting. Bridgespan’s talent pool comes from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, as well as from all nonprofit domains. We have deep and strong candidate networks, particularly for key functional roles, augmented by our ties to Bridgestar, the Bridgespan initiative devoted to nonprofit careers.
Commitment to capacity-building
We are dedicated not only to helping organizations secure the right talent, but also to supporting organizations in increasing their own recruiting capacity. As a nonprofit organization ourselves, we share our knowledge freely with both our clients and with the broader nonprofit sector.
Online content and tools
Bridgespan’s services are supported by online resources, which include the Bridgestar job board and content dedicated to best practices in recruiting. Sharing our expertise in recruiting for key functional roles, such as Chief Operating Officers and Chief Financial Officers, and developing new pools of talent from other sectors (“bridgers”), are integral to our mission.
Customized fee-based pricing
Our services are fully retained, with a flat-fee pricing structure based on the complexity of the project. Search consultants work with each client organization to establish the category of services that best suits its recruiting and budgetary requirements. Our recommendations range from full search projects to targeted advisory services that equip the client organization to conduct its own search process more efficiently and effectively.
Establishing Search Relationships
In establishing relationships, we consider the following criteria:
- Social impact: Is the organization positioned to have significant and positive social impact?
- Knowledge generation: Will the engagement lead to the production of knowledge that might be relevant to other leaders in the nonprofit sector?
- Bridgespan’s capability: Is the assignment a fit with our service design?
- Capacity to act: Is the organization prepared to act as our partner in the engagement—and to build its own capacity to establish best hiring practices internally?
Learn More
For information about Bridgespan’s executive search services, please contact us at executivesearch@bridgespan.org or (617) 572-2833.
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