For over 20 years, Korn/Ferry has enjoyed a strong reputation for conducting leadership searches for high profile, powerful trade associations and professional societies at the global, national and regional levels. Korn/Ferry is the leader in conducting these searches as evidenced by our distinguished client list including President/CEO and Executive Director searches for leading organizations. Among the industry sectors we have served are heavy manufacturing, technology, life sciences and health, aerospace and defense, energy, automotive, petroleum and chemicals, entertainment and hospitality, financial services, consumer goods, among others. Among the professions we have served are numerous physician groups, human resources, construction, public safety, engineering, science, financial officers, among others. Korn/Ferry has conducted searches for the most significant trade associations and professional societies of any firm in our practice area. This is based on our proven track record for placing outstanding candidates, providing a focused, yet flexible search process for search committees, offering a unique candidate assessment tool to benchmark best in class leaders, and our unparalleled access to top political, industry, and association candidates.
Nonprofit Practice
Over the past 40 years, charitable giving in the U.S. has increased from $20 billion to $250 billion annually. Today, Korn/Ferry is proud to support the vibrant and robust nonprofit sector. Prominent and respected philanthropic organizations actively work in the sector, and the landscape continues to evolve with the growth of social entrepreneurship and venture philanthropy. The ongoing effort to meet the humanitarian, social, civic and cultural needs of our global world has caused organizations to grow, renew and re-invent themselves. To meet the complex challenges inherent in nonprofit leadership, Korn/Ferry has formed the most solid and expertise-based nonprofit practice in the executive recruitment world. Our consultants understand the functions and dynamics surrounding the most critical leadership roles in nonprofit organizations. Korn/Ferry has been an active partner working with Boards, leading organizations and emerging social entrepreneurs to identify, recruit and develop talent in this sector.
Korn/Ferry serves as trusted advisor to these mission-driven organizations across education, environment, humanitarian relief, culture and the arts, and healthcare needs. With more than three decades of experience recruiting and developing nonprofit leaders, we honor the efforts of our clients, and are committed to helping them recruit the talent needed to move their mission ahead. We provide consultative, premier executive recruiting, starting with understanding our client’s mission and the culture that drives the organization. Working closely with our clients, we help frame the understanding of the position, and rely on our relationships, proprietary database and assessment tools to go to market. We understand no two organizations are exactly alike and our process is collegial, with organized, defined timelines and metrics to keep our clients informed and successful. Our successful candidates represent the best available talent helping to shape today’s nonprofit sector.
With extensive experience, we leverage our global network across the nonprofit, government and private sectors to present the highest caliber candidates, and we diligently seek out new and inclusive talent. Our clients have come to know Korn/Ferry candidate slates always represent the diversity reflected in today’s global marketplace. We seek out new talent from all sectors to meet the increasing demand for experienced leadership and high-potential leadership.
Our pledge to provide excellent service – combined with our shared sense of commitment to nonprofits’ missions – create the partnerships that remain successful and rewarding for our clients and our candidates.
Government Practice
While the transition of a new government administration always brings new heightened levels of interest in government work from mid-level specialists and leaders from industry, the reality is, the Government Sector as a whole is now facing its most serious talent shortage crisis.
The Office of Personnel Management recently surveyed the government’s most senior executives and found that nearly 42% were planning to leave the Federal Service in the next three years, and more than 61% in the next five years. While agency and department leaders understand that replenishing the SES (Senior Executive Service) ranks with high-caliber executives is vital to the continued success of their organizations, the solution to this challenge is not an easy task. A shrinking talent pool across all sectors means that government agencies will face fierce competition for talented executives from the private and nonprofit sectors.
Korn/Ferry International has successfully executed search assignments for nearly all key SES level positions. We also deliver single and surge-hiring search efforts for mid-level leadership and specialists, through the Korn/Ferry-Futurestep division, in compliance with all USC Title 5 recruitment protocols. All of our services are listed and can be ordered via our GSA Schedule Contract vehicle 738X (Human Resources & EEO Services). We also hold a government-wide Blanket Purchase Agreement for all of our services via one of the OMB designated government Human Resource Lines of Business shared service centers - which allows all government departments to issue recruitment task orders at will.
The Government Specialty Practice at Korn/Ferry International has continually set the standard for providing federal and state government departments and agencies with exceptional executives in the most difficult market conditions. Our ability to tailor our search process to conform to the exact needs of our clients, coupled with our unparalleled access to government and private sector leaders makes us uniquely qualified to assist Federal and State Governments in their recruitment needs.
Korn/Ferry International also provides human resource consulting services for leadership coaching and development, competency profiling, recruitment process consulting, as well as recruitment technology optimization services. Our Government Clients include: TSA, SEC. FAA, FDA, FEC, FBI, GPO, DFAS, PCOB, Department of Education, Federal Housing Finance Board, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, US Capitol Police, US House of Representatives, Smithsonian, World Bank, IMF, Commonwealth of Virginia, State of Connecticut and State of Washington.
As the worlds largest and best known search firm for professional recruitment and human resource consulting, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss your agency’s immediate and future needs.
