Ellwood Atfield

Ellwood Atfield is an employee-owned boutique search firm that recruits communications, policy and advocacy professionals. It says it hires the most senior communication leaders and the people who report to them, and it has recruited in this field since the company was founded in 2002. It is based in London.

Its work is organised into five practices: Executive Search, Agency, Corporate and Regulatory, Membership, and Health and Not-for-Profit. The Membership practice recruits for trade associations and professional bodies, from chief executives to entry-level roles. The Health and Not-for-Profit practice covers marketing, communications, policy and public affairs roles in the health and not-for-profit sectors. The firm also has an interim practice.

Alongside search and recruitment, it advises corporate affairs and communications departments on team structures and skills gaps, and offers psychometric profiling, talent mapping and pipeline management, ED&I reporting, talent partnerships and RPO programmes.