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Presidents/CEOs/Executive Directors

Our expertise in identifying exceptional leadership drives our success in recruiting transformational presidents, CEOs, and executive directors across the civic sector.

Our Experience


Through thousands of searches for accomplished, innovative leaders, we have built a standard of excellence and a legacy of partnership with our clients.

Understanding

Uniting an organization under a shared purpose, seizing opportunities, and overcoming challenges requires presidents, CEOs, and executive directors to possess a broad set of skills and the insights that come with experience. 

Financial management skills are critical and inseparable from a leader’s capacity to establish and execute a powerful strategic vision. Social consciousness and emotional intelligence are key to engaging internal and external constituents. A sophisticated understanding of how best to communicate with and inspire one’s community is essential in a world of rapid technological change.

 

Networks

Isaacson, Miller’s networks, relationships, and commitment to a rigorous, thorough, and bias-free search process provide the foundation for successful partnerships to recruit the finest leaders for our clients.

Our Track Record

40+

Years of experience and results

9800+

Leadership searches across the civic sector since our founding

80%

Client return rate, reflective of our enduring relationships

99%

Client Satisfaction reflecting our high-touch approach and our relentless pursuit of excellence

Explore the Clients We Serve

Arts + Culture

Isaacson, Miller partners with arts and culture organizations whose missions celebrate creativity, innovation, education, public service, and audience engagement.

Conservation + Environment

We have a deep, longstanding record serving international, national, regional, and urban conservation and environmental organizations as well as funders supporting these groups. 

Healthcare, Academic Medicine + Health Sciences

Our record recruiting senior administrative leaders for multi-faceted roles in healthcare, academic medicine, and health sciences, is based on continuous appraisal of an increasingly complex sector. 

Higher Education

With more than half our work devoted to university and college leadership, we have the nation’s largest and most diverse practice in higher education, spanning academic administration and functional leadership.

Human + Social Services / General Civic Sector

From our earliest days Isaacson, Miller has supported and empowered the country’s leading human and social services organizations, as well as nonprofits and civic institutions committed to revitalizing and strengthening the fabric of communities. 

International

Isaacson, Miller relies on a global network stretching throughout North and Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia to serve our domestic and international clients.

Philanthropy

We have served hundreds of foundations across the country in searches for CEOs, senior program and administrative leaders, and trustees.

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Contact us. We are looking forward to learning more about how we can help.