The Washington Advisory Group, LLC, and Isaacson, Miller have created a strategic partnership. The Advisory Group supports Isaacson, Miller searches by providing the highest quality consultation to search clients on the strategic issues that frame the search, by assisting the firm in identifying candidates, and by enhancing candidate reference and evaluation.

The Advisory Group provides strategic counsel and management consulting to the leaders of academic, government, and business enterprises. The principals are among the most distinguished and accomplished scientific and academic leaders in the nation. They bring, as a group, an incomparable substantive history to the task of scientific and academic search.

Working with Isaacson, Miller, The Advisory Group supplements and extends the aspects of search activities that are integral to the governance, operation, and strategic direction of organizations. In such cases, where a university, foundation, or technologically-oriented company is making a paired decision about leadership and the organization's strategic direction, the Group has a unique ability to add value. In particular, a first-rank leadership search begins with a "scoping" process, during which the search firm works with the client to write a job description, profile a "good" candidate, and set up some performance targets for the new executive. This process develops, essentially, a limited strategic plan for the organization. The search ends when the candidate is selected, and the search firm finishes whatever transition work (briefing the selected candidate, etc.) they have committed to do on the client's behalf.

The Advisory Group substantially extends the capability of Isaacson, Miller in both the upstream (scoping) and downstream (transition) activities. Additionally, of course, leadership searches depend on casting a broad and effective net to find individuals who meet the criteria for the job and also fit the client's needs in less clearly defined ways. The Advisory Group's network of professional colleagues is unparalleled in its depth and breadth and makes the logistics of a search process (calling, visiting, interviewing, etc.) faster and more effective.