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The Charles Woodrow Company

The Charles Woodrow Company is a boutique staffing and recruiting firm that operates with a lean, senior-led model focused on delivering high-touch talent solutions. Its public LinkedIn profile reflects a small team, reinforcing a hands-on approach where experienced consultants directly manage searches from briefing through onboarding. The firm offers a blend of permanent recruitment, contract staffing, and executive search and interim management services designed to help clients secure salaried and leadership talent with speed and rigor. Rather than emphasizing heavy marketing, its online presence is intentionally minimal, prioritizing discretion, process quality, and relationship building. Typical engagements begin with a structured intake to clarify role requirements, success criteria, and stakeholder expectations, followed by market mapping, targeted outreach, and competency-based assessment to create a calibrated shortlist. The company emphasizes candidate experience and transparent communication, ensuring timely feedback and alignment on compensation, notice periods, and start dates to minimize risk at offer stage. For executive and interim mandates, it brings additional emphasis on leadership capability, change management experience, and culture fit, supporting clients through reference verification and onboarding planning. Contract and interim solutions are positioned to provide flexible capacity for projects or coverage, maintaining compliance and contractor care as core standards. While it partners across functions and sectors typical of generalist professional recruitment, its focus is on white-collar and leadership appointments where business impact and stakeholder alignment are critical. The firms operating philosophy centers on measurable outcomes, ethical conduct, and inclusive hiring practices, with attention to data privacy and process transparency. Clients engage The Charles Woodrow Company when they need tailored engagement, senior attention on every assignment, and a methodical search process without unnecessary complexity. Candidates value its straightforward guidance, market insight, and commitment to discreetly presenting opportunities that match capability, motivation, and career trajectory.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQNewport Beach, United States

Newman Stewart

Newman Stewart is a global executive search firm focused on mission critical recruitment, known for delivering high-performing candidates to high-profile assignments across multiple sectors. With over 50 years of combined experience, the team partners with blue chip, medium, and small organisations worldwide to identify, assess, and secure leaders who drive business performance. The firm’s core services span Executive Search, Search & Selection for permanent hires, and Interim Services, underpinned by value-added Talent Advisory offerings including psychometric assessment, salary benchmarking, and market intelligence. Newman Stewart operates typically between £70,000 and £500,000 basic salary bands, and brings a transparent, thorough, and rigorous process designed to deliver outstanding results to commercial timescales. Sector expertise is extensive and includes Manufacturing & Engineering, Process Automation & Materials Handling, Process & Packaging Machinery, Civil Engineering, Rail, and Construction; Business Services with a strong footprint in Technology and Telecommunications; Waste Management; Logistics and Transport; and the highly specialised Testing, Inspection & Certification (TIC) domain. The firm also recruits across Change & Transformation initiatives and senior Finance & Accounting leadership, as well as Legal appointments from NQ through to Equity Partner alongside Paralegal and Compliance roles. Functional coverage is broad at senior levels, encompassing leadership, sales, engineering and project management, operations, quality and supply chain, finance, and HR. Known for diligence, pace, and discretion, Newman Stewart leverages deep networks, robust search methodology, and evidence-led assessment to produce shortlists that balance capability, cultural fit, and long-term impact. Case studies and client references highlight a strong track record in complex, confidential, and time-sensitive mandates, while ongoing insights and resources demonstrate the firm’s commitment to best practice and continuous improvement in executive recruitment.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTruckingWarehousingDistribution

HQLeeds, United Kingdom

Naturalis People

Naturalis People is a leadership people consultancy dedicated to C‑suite, functional leadership, future leaders, and non‑executive and board advisory appointments across the global food and consumer sector. Founded by Alan Gove following more than two decades in executive search within food and FMCG, the firm brings deep domain expertise that spans protein, dairy, produce, branded food, and fast‑growing categories such as plant‑based and free‑from. From its base in Harrogate, with reach across Amsterdam and Dubai, Naturalis partners with international corporates, high‑growth scale‑ups, and investor‑backed businesses, including private equity, venture capital, and founder‑led companies. Its solutions combine bespoke executive search with market research and insight, leadership talent mapping, and rigorous pre‑search and pre‑investment people due diligence to de‑risk critical hiring and M&A decisions. The team conducts mandates at Board, Non‑Exec, and C‑suite level and across pivotal functions including manufacturing, commercial, marketing, production, and innovation, delivering leaders who can drive value creation, operational excellence, and category transformation. Purpose is embedded in the model: Naturalis prioritizes clients advancing sustainability, ESG, and carbon‑reduction agendas, and the firm is committed to cutting its own footprint while championing transparent, ethical, and inclusive hiring practices. Its consultative approach emphasizes close partnership, clear communication, and data‑rich insight, ensuring alignment on role definition, assessment criteria, and market access from first briefing to successful appointment. As a trading brand of Natural Selection Talent Acquisition (Company No. 15034482), Naturalis People blends boutique agility with global reach, providing senior talent solutions that help food and consumer businesses secure boardroom capability, accelerate growth, and scale responsibly in fast‑evolving markets.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsFarmingFood ProcessingFishing & AquacultureDefenseConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial Machinery

HQHarrogate, United Kingdom

COOPER COLEMAN LLC

Cooper Coleman LLC is a leading national retained executive search firm dedicated exclusively to nonprofits and social impact organizations, foundations, higher education and research institutions, and cultural and conservation organizations such as museums, zoos, and aquariums. Headquartered in Chicago with additional presence in Cincinnati, Columbus, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, the firm is built around a simple premise: moving organizations forward by placing the right leaders in the right roles at the right time. Cooper Coleman centers dignity in every interaction, recognizing the person behind each resume and prioritizing a respectful, transparent candidate experience while representing client brands as if they were internal team members. Their inclusive, outcomes-driven approach is reflected in sector-leading results: 100% of clients surveyed would use or recommend the firm again, 79% of searches come from repeat clients and referrals, and 84% of placed candidates are people of color and/or women. The firms four-phase talent selection processPrep + Launch; Qualify + Evaluate; Interview + Offer; Conclusion + Post-Placement Engagementcombines rigorous research, structured assessment, and hands-on stakeholder alignment with thoughtful post-placement check-ins at one, three, and six months to ensure long-term success. Recognized by Hunt Scanlon among Americas Top 250 Executive Search Firms and named among the Top 65 Nonprofit Executive Search Firms, Cooper Coleman conducts searches spanning CEOs, Executive Directors, COOs, CFOs, Chief Development/Philanthropy Officers, and other mission-critical leaders. Complementing search, its Strategy + Advisory practice helps organizations develop fundraising and development roadmaps, strengthen culture and organizational design, and build leadership capacity, offering services such as major giving strategy, grant writing, donor engagement, campaign feasibility, stakeholder assessment, communications and marketing, strategic planning, board development, and interim staffing. In fewer than 15 years, the team has helped raise more than $500 million for impactful organizations, pairing practical guidance with a willingness to wade through the messiness of change to deliver focused, resourced, and sustainable progress.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsFundraisingSocial ServicesEnvironmental ConservationVisual ArtsMuseums & GalleriesFilm & Television Production

HQChicago, United States

GP North America

GP North America is a specialist recruitment firm dedicated to the Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain sectors across the United States and Canada. For more than 29 years, the firm has focused exclusively on connecting organizations with people who not only meet technical requirements but also align with company culture, emphasizing the importance of true fit. Backed by over 50 years of combined specialized recruitment experience within transportation and SCM, GP North America blends proven, traditional search practices with advanced research tools, leading-edge technology, and modern social media to accelerate and improve hiring outcomes. Operating with a team-based delivery model, every assignment is led by two primary points of contact and supported by a focused research and recruitment function that serves as clients eyes and ears in the market, ensuring rapid identification and engagement of both active and passive talent. The firm supports employers ranging from large international conglomerates to entrepreneurial, privately owned companies, covering roles across distribution, warehousing, trucking, freight forwarding, and broader supply chain management. On the candidate side, GP North America prioritizes long-term career guidance over transactional placements, offering market intelligence and discreet access to the hidden market where high-value opportunities often arise before they are public. This consultative approach helps professionals evaluate their fit relative to current searches while aligning their ambitions with emerging industry needs. From middle management through leadership roles, the firms deep industry immersion enables it to educate talent on opportunities they may not have considered and to introduce clients to exceptional candidates who may not yet be actively looking. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, GP North America serves Local, National, and Global organizations with a simple promiseeffective recruitment made simpleby delivering well-matched hires that endure and drive performance in transportation and supply chain.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationWarehousingDistributionPublic Transit

HQMississauga, Canada

STQ Partners

STQ Partners is a global talent consultancy that blends executive search rigor with data-driven talent acquisition to deliver high-impact, long-term hires. Headquartered in Leeds with a transatlantic footprint, the firm is known for customer obsession and a partnership mindset that extends beyond placement to sustained growth. STQ Partners’ trademarked Q-Print blueprint and Outcomes & Competency Assessment (OCA) framework capture the realities of a client’s business, role outcomes, competencies, and culture to create a tailored search strategy that accelerates time-to-hire—often completing engagements in a third of the industry norm—without compromising quality. The team focuses on leadership and strategic roles spanning product, engineering, operations, and go-to-market functions, serving clients from venture-backed scaleups to global blue-chip enterprises. Sector expertise is anchored in Automation, Industrial, Clean Tech, and Life Sciences, with strong capabilities in Emerging Markets such as Medical Devices, Semiconductors, and Aerospace & Defence, and a dedicated focus on building and scaling PE/VC portfolio companies. Case studies and client recommendations highlight successful engagements with organizations including IDEX, Blacoh, Evolution Well Services, Yokogawa, Fortna, Autostore, BALYO, G&H Orthodontics, and more, reflecting consistent praise for transparent communication, speed, market insight, and the ability to surface candidates that combine technical excellence with cultural alignment. By pairing quantitative and qualitative insights with meticulous process orchestration, STQ Partners ensures candidates are not only capable of doing the job but are poised to create material impact over the long term. Whether delivering C-suite and senior leadership searches or other key strategic hires, the firm’s consultative approach, global reach, and continuous feedback loops enable clients to outpace competitors in highly specialized markets while maintaining a premium candidate experience.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentRPOAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCloud ComputingTelecomHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQLeeds, United Kingdom

Chicago Financial Search, Inc.

Chicago Financial Search, Inc. is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to the Financial Services and FinTech sectors, founded in 1984 and headquartered in Chicago with a global delivery footprint across major hubs including New York, London, Belfast, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Frankfurt. With more than four decades of experience, the firm provides executive search and full-cycle recruitment for permanent, contract, and temporary hires, combining deep market knowledge with a relationship-led approach. CFS serves a wide spectrum of clientsFCMs, broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms, exchanges, crypto companies, fintech and software vendors, investment banks, and wealth advisory firmsplacing talent from entry level to executive leadership. Coverage spans futures brokers, wealth advisory, accounting, brokerage operations, compliance, all areas of IT and infrastructure, and trading/front-office functions, ensuring clients can scale with specialized, high-impact professionals. The companys methodology blends multi-channel sourcing, targeted search, and a powerful network to engage both active and passive candidates, aligning technical capabilities and cultural fit to deliver lasting results. Beyond hiring, CFS supports candidate readiness and employer branding through strategic resume and CV development tailored to financial and fintech roles, helping professionals articulate differentiated value in competitive markets. The firms long-standing reputation is built on integrity, personalized service, and consistent client satisfaction, reflecting a commitment to quality placements and long-term partnerships. Whether assembling top-tier teams, filling niche mandates, or securing C-suite leaders, Chicago Financial Search applies local insight and global reach to meet mission-critical hiring needs, providing agile solutions that keep clients ahead of market change and regulatory complexity while advancing careers for specialized talent worldwide.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQChicago, United States

Sales Recruiters Chicago, Inc.

Sales Recruiters Chicago, Inc. is a specialized sales recruitment and headhunting firm focused on helping employers across the Chicago metro area build high-performing revenue teams. Operating as a consultative partner to hiring managers and founders, the firm sources, screens, and places top-tier sales talent ranging from account executives and business development representatives to sales managers and senior commercial leaders. Their track record spans multiple sectors where sales acumen is mission-critical, including SaaS and digital information services selling into legal and professional markets, advanced manufacturing and industrial sectors, and fast-growing medical device and healthcare-related manufacturers. With a deep local network and market insight, Sales Recruiters Chicago emphasizes cultural fit, territory knowledge, and verifiable quota attainment, ensuring candidates are aligned to the nuances of each clients go-to-market model. The firm supports employers with targeted headhunting, structured interview processes, and offer-stage guidance, while providing candidates with discreet career navigation, resume submission channels, and visibility to vetted opportunities. Clients engage Sales Recruiters Chicago to accelerate revenue growth, shorten time-to-hire, and reduce mis-hires by leveraging its focused specialization in sales roles and its ability to identify high-impact performers who can open doors, build pipelines, and close business. Its job postings and searches reflect breadth across industriesfrom SaaS sales managers overseeing teams and revenue plans to account executives driving growth in medical manufacturing and print servicesunderscoring versatility within a single functional domain: sales. Based in downtown Chicago with affiliated locations in Dallas and Denver, the firm blends the rigor of executive search with the speed of hands-on recruiting, bringing a personalized approach to each engagement and a commitment to long-term placement success.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQChicago, United States

MRI-Global Search

MRIGlobalSearch is a Timonium, Marylandbased executive recruiting firm with a legacy dating back to 1976 and a reputation for elite performance within MRINetwork, consistently ranking among the top offices worldwide. Led by an experienced team that embraces a collaborative, team-based model, the firm partners with organizations to deliver precise, high-quality hiring outcomes across critical niche markets. Its core domain expertise spans Food & Beverage manufacturing, Medical Devices, Plastics, Scientific disciplines, Healthcare leadership, and Government Contracting, where decades of sector-specific knowledge, market insight, and extensive networks enable swift access to hard-to-find leaders and specialists. Typical mandates include roles across quality, food protection and safety, research and development, operations, and functional leadership, as well as executive and senior management positions required to build and scale top-performing teams. MRIGlobalSearchs methodology emphasizes deep discovery, market mapping, targeted outreach, rigorous assessment, and meticulous offer and onboarding management, all delivered with transparent communication and a commitment to confidentiality. Clients engage the firm for executive search and professional placement needs nationwide, relying on its combination of tenure, process discipline, and industry fluency to reduce time-to-hire and elevate hiring accuracy. The organizations long-standing culture of excellence and partnershiphoned over four decades and reinforced by repeated International Elite recognitiontranslates into sustained results for both established enterprises and growth-stage companies. With a consultative mindset and an unwavering focus on alignment between role requirements, organizational culture, and candidate capability, MRIGlobalSearch helps clients navigate competitive talent markets, strengthen leadership benches, and secure the specialists and executives who move businesses forward.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingPharmaceuticalsBiotechnologyMedical DevicesElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationGovernment Administration

HQVenlo, Netherlands

Insurance Search

Insurance Search is a specialist global insurance executive search partner dedicated to helping insurance people succeed. Focusing exclusively on the insurance sector, the firm supports brokers, carriers, mutuals, insurtechs and private equity-backed platforms across the USA, UK, Bermuda and Europe. Its core offering centers on senior and strategic hires from AVP through C-suite and board appointments, underpinned by market intelligence and human capital consultancy that inform clients talent acquisition strategies and DE&I goals. Built on transparency and accessibility, Insurance Search pushes beyond closed networks and referrals to map the full market, proactively engage diverse leadership talent and present robust, well-evidenced shortlists. The teams niche focus combines boutique attention with international reach; experienced consultants lead and deliver each mandate end-to-end, from clarifying the employer value proposition and search strategy to longlisting, structured assessment, referencing and offer management. The firm is known for innovative candidate engagement via the Insurance Coffee House Podcast, which reaches 25,000+ unique listeners and has been used to showcase client brands; notably, for a New York insurtech, Insurance Search executed four concurrent C-suite searches (COO, CTO, Chief Actuary and Chief Insurance Officer), delivering competitive shortlists and securing the preferred candidate for each role. Leadership Advisory, led by Martin Blake, provides confidential counsel to VP, C-level and board executives, aligning career aspirations with opportunities in a discreet and values-led manner. For boards and investors, the firm advises on board composition and governance, while its regional market intelligence (United States, London and Bermuda) supports workforce planning and talent attraction. Reflecting its growth model, Insurance Search also invites insurance executives and senior recruiters to join its Managing Partner team in the USA and London. Across every engagement, clients and candidates benefit from deep domain expertise, a consultative approach and measurable outcomes that strengthen leadership teams and drive business performance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQLondon, United Kingdom

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