Our Services

We organize, manage, and inform a search process that is customized to the particular and unique needs of each of our partner institutions. We have designed a professional search model that is thorough and effective and offers expert advisement and counsel at each stage of the search process. We also understand that a successful search does not end at the identification, selection, and announcement of the appointee, and offer integrated assistance through our Executive Coaching Practice and Transition and Onboarding services. To view our brochure, click here.

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Executive Search
We understand that hiring qualified and effective new team members is critical to the life of any institution. As a trusted search partner, Academic Search is dedicated to providing service that our partner institutions can rely on unequivocally to achieve their recruitment goals and to support their overarching missions. We pledge to serve our partners with robust advocacy for their institutions and complete attention to their needs, while providing expert, ethical advisement and assistance throughout every search.

Executive Coaching
Academic Search has long been committed to enhancing presidential and executive effectiveness and capacity through executive coaching. Our Executive Coaching Practice is designed to make strong leaders stronger. Our coaches serve as trusted companions and guides, committed to helping the executives with whom we work accomplish their leadership and institutional goals. This partnership is an invaluable investment in institutional vitality and well-being as much as it is an investment in the executive.

Transition and Onboarding
The creation and execution of a well-structured transition and onboarding plan is imperative to a successful integration process. We work with newly appointed leaders and their institutions in assuring that all are equipped to succeed and to advance the institutions. Our collaborative process is built on the imperatives of culture, context, and relational capital and includes custom-designed workshops that quickly acclimate any new leader to key stakeholders and the campus and broader communities.

Additional Services

Interim Placements
Academic Search recognizes that mission-critical challenges in higher education sometimes require an immediate interim appointment—followed later by a comprehensive search for a permanent placement. In such cases, Academic Search partners with the Registry for College and University Presidents to provide a seamless transition.

Assessment
In addition to the valuable insights provided by our consultants, third-party assessment instruments can provide data points for evaluating the strengths and shortcomings of prospective candidates. Academic Search has partnered with two organizations that are leaders in the field of assessment to provide services to our partner institutions: Gallup and Hogan.

Leadership Consulting
With our unique focus on leadership development, Academic Search is invested in the success of the administrators whom we help to place in positions of leadership. We offer a range of coaching services to ensure that they are effective in their new roles.

To learn more about any of our additional services, please contact Chief Operating Officer Shawn Hartman.