Staffing Advisors

Staffing Advisors is a retained executive search firm based in Washington, DC, founded in 2002. It serves associations, certification boards, foundations, nonprofits and social enterprises nationwide, and says its clients have annual budgets ranging from $1MM to more than $450MM.

The firm recruits across all functional areas and career levels, from associate to CEO, and reports that it has placed over 1,000 professionals. It says it has placed over 500 leaders in more than 100 trade associations and professional societies, and over 400 leaders in more than 110 nonprofits and social enterprises. It specialises in recruiting CEOs and executive directors. Alongside search, it advises on organizational structure and job design, and starts each engagement with a discovery process to clarify a client's goals before setting a strategy.

It offers a replacement guarantee of two years for CEO placements and 18 months for other career levels. It reports that more than 87% of its work comes from repeat clients.