Today, more than ever, leadership matters. It is CEOs, CFOs, presidents and the most senior executives who spearhead change and steer a future course for their organizations. While the fundamentals of good leadership do not change, today’s executives and board directors must be more aware, astute, collaborative and change-ready than their predecessors. It is these leaders who provide a clear competitive advantage and guide success.

Facilitating the placement of a senior leader is both a responsibility and an honor.

Advancing goals around equity, diversity, and inclusion. Matching an executive to the optimal next step in their career journey. Ensuring that an executive’s chemistry and style align with an organization’s culture and priorities. Bringing forward executives who can shape a legacy of impactful leadership. Placing executives who will succeed—and stay.
By focusing on critical factors like these, WittKieffer’s executive search and placement process helps ensure that our clients make the best hiring decisions. We conduct collaborative processes that clients value and trust—and that compel executives to keep working with us over the course of their careers.

Senior-Level Executive Search

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

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Associate

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Of Counsel

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Academic Medicine

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We build leadership teams that set the standard for academic health science centers—delivering world-class education, patient care, and research while improving both the quality of healthcare and quality of life.

Academic Medicine & Health Sciences

We build leadership teams that effect positive, transformational change, supported by powerful experiences learned through thousands of engagements.

We build leadership teams at organizations that care for our families, friends, and communities, led by individuals who combine an understanding of market dynamics with a commitment to delivering high-quality, accessible care.

We build leadership teams with for-profit and investor-backed organizations seeking to reshape and reimagine healthcare while meeting consumer expectations for quality, convenience, access, and affordability.

Investor Backed Healthcare

We build leadership teams that translate groundbreaking research and discovery into effective therapies and market success and, more importantly, therapies and solutions that improve quality of life.

 

 

We elevate and empower vital not-for-profit organizations through impactful leadership solutions that strengthen their capacity to address inequity, poverty, and other formidable social challenges.

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Being a Leader

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Building Your Career

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We identify, place, and accelerate the impact of top-level leaders who drive the success of our clients—now and well into the future.

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WittKieffer provides leadership solutions for clients during times of transition and transformation.

Interim Leadership

We maximize the potential of leaders, teams, and their cultures.

Leadership Advisory

We work with clients to place talented team members who will become tomorrow’s leaders.

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