Executive Search
Hire the One Person Who Changes the Trajectory
Retained executive search for healthcare, real estate, financial services and fintech employers in Scottsdale, AZ, Phoenix, AZ and across the Valley.
Founder-led. Deliberately limited volume. A shortlist you can act on.
Retained
Full commitment on both sides
3–4
Finalists, not a long list
Founder-led
The person you meet runs the search
Executive search in Scottsdale, AZ and Phoenix, AZ
The leadership searches that matter in Scottsdale and Phoenix are rarely solved by volume. They are solved by a partner who knows the market, can reach the people who are not looking, and has the credibility to represent your opportunity accurately in a single conversation.
We run retained executive searches across healthcare, real estate, financial services and fintech. Each engagement is led by the founder, scoped in writing before a single candidate is approached, and backed by a replacement guarantee on the placed executive. We do not hand off your search to a junior researcher; the person who designs the mandate is the person who makes the calls and sits in the final interview.
Our clients are growing provider organizations, brokerages, and finance and fintech companies that need one right leader more than a long list of possible ones. If your search carries that kind of consequence, this is the model for it.
Engagement model
Retained executive engagements with milestone-based fees, agreed before the search opens, scoped to the seniority and complexity of the mandate, and backed by a replacement guarantee.
Request a consultationWhy the right executive search matters
The cost of a failed executive hire is not the search fee. It is the salary, benefits, stalled projects, team disruption, and lost board confidence that follow. In a concentrated market like Scottsdale, a failed leadership search also becomes known quickly, which makes the next search harder.
The best candidates are employed, guarded, and skeptical of processes that waste their time. A generic outreach message or a long list of unvetted names will not move them. They respond to a brief, credible approach from someone who understands the role, the organization, and the market.
The organizations that fill these roles well are the ones that treat the search as a mandate design problem before it becomes a candidate problem. The ones that struggle are the ones that start sourcing before they have agreed on what the leader is supposed to change.
How we run a retained executive search
Step 1
Mandate design: We align the decision-makers on the three outcomes the leader owns in year one, the decisions they can make without consensus, and the political capital they are being given.
Step 2
Targeted outreach: We identify the ten to fifteen people who genuinely fit and approach them through credible channels. No broadcast emails, no job-board postings, no list of names pulled from a database.
Step 3
Deep assessment: Structured interviews, reference conversations beyond the named list, and direct examination of how the candidate behaves under pressure, builds trust, and decides with incomplete information.
Leadership roles we place
Chief Executive Officer
CEOs who can set direction, build the executive team, and manage board and investor relationships for growth and transition.
Chief Operating Officer
COOs who scale operations, align cross-functional teams, and translate strategy into repeatable execution.
Chief Financial Officer
CFOs who can own reporting discipline, capital strategy, audit readiness, and board communication.
Chief People Officer / CHRO
Human capital leaders who build retention, performance, and culture infrastructure through high-growth phases.
Open roles in this practice
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