Clients
A proven formula for success.
While we have strong relationships with senior leaders and boards in both government and industry, NorthWind Partners is a boutique firm. Our strategy is to build deep relationships with a few select clients. This strategy allows us better control over hindrances that plague our larger competitors, and leads to greater success for our clients. With fewer clients, our world of available candidates is much larger.
Since 1997, our team has collectively filled over 500 senior-management (Director level and above) and Board positions for a myriad of clients with a strong commitment to leading and impacting the market.
The advantages of selecting NorthWind as a dedicated partner are distinct and immediate:
We combine the evaluation and recruitment of top performing executives with management consulting focused on addressing mission-critical human capital issues. This uniquely equips us to help companies realize a higher probability of success in leadership development, recruitment, and the retention of newly hired executives.
We recruit for board members and operational, functional, and technical leadership roles across enterprise, group, divisional, and business management layers.
We also help clients build advisory boards leading them to the next phase of growth.
We’re focused on working with companies in commercial and military aviation and aerospace, the government contracting arena (across Civilian Government, Intelligence, Security, and Defense), and across healthcare (both public sector and commercial). Companies in these select markets often benefit significantly by working with a firm that possesses experience with both the Government and/or the Department of Defense in conjunction with Industry.
Devoting ourselves to these niches has given us the ability to find and court the most qualified leaders for our clients. We understand both the unique dynamics of these markets and which companies are best positioned to succeed.
There is no passing of an assignment to inexperienced associates. Partners are fully involved in the full life cycle of every assignment.
As a boutique, we don’t have the luxury of relying on a larger brand. Developing and protecting our reputation is crucial. Thus, we carefully adhere to the integrity of only accepting assignments we believe we can successfully complete. Not one corner is cut on any assignment.
As a boutique, we are free to focus on building long-term relationships and delivering the highest level of attention and service to both clients and candidates. Our peers at larger search firms spend time and energy dealing with internal factors. We don’t have the restrictions of a publicly traded company or the distraction of managing large, hierarchical teams. And there is no interdivisional competition.
We choose our clients very selectively, which eliminates the massive hands-off lists that plague our larger competitors and broadens access to a greater number of star executives in the market.
We limit the engagement of searches to the bandwidth of partner availability, so that partners can be involved in every stage of a search.
Our process approaches every search from start to success in an extremely thorough fashion (See Our Process)
The average time to completion of searches is 90 days.
During the past seven years, we’ve successfully completed approximately 96% of all searches accepted.
Our 12-Month Retention Rate is 98%.
Our 24-Month Retention Rate is 94%.
Our 36-Month Retention Rate is 89%.
Our long-term clients receive priority regarding competitive market intelligence, leveraging our network to forge new industry and government relationships, and management counsel on human capital issues. This includes integration and restructuring, succession planning, benchmarking, organizational assessment, and internal recruitment processes.
We prioritize the development of relationships with business leaders and top executives in the market even if they are not considered for a current assignment. When strategically appropriate, we introduce these executives to our clients based on the strategic plans they have shared with us (regardless of an opening).
Our focus and expertise, our nimble size, our model, and our relationships have culminated in success for NorthWind Partners. It explains why senior executives and business leaders have continually turned to us for counsel. Please contact us today to discover if we can offer insight or assistance.