We built this firm to do search the way it should be done.
Our founders ran global search practices at the leading retained search firms in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific. We have been there. We know what great looks like, and we know what does not work.
Leichter Advisors exists because of what we saw inside the largest search firms in the world. We led global businesses there, and we know the model well: many clients, heavy search loads, and a market divided into the part you can be shown and the part you cannot.
We left to practice search as it should be practiced. We are search leaders, not sales leaders. We take one client and one search at a time, and the partner who takes the brief carries it through to the candidate you meet. Every search we have accepted, we have completed.
We are as selective as our clients. We accept a search only where we can complete it, where our expertise and relationships are real, and where we know we add value. A short client list is the consequence, and it is the reason you see the whole market, with every restriction disclosed in writing.
We are not for everyone. We are for clients who must get leadership right, and who insist on seeing all of it.
Critical roles, not more bodies.
A firm's value is created in a small number of roles. They are defined by what they contribute, not by where they sit in the hierarchy, and most organizations have never named them. We identify those roles, the components of each that make the biggest difference to a firm, a division or a team, and the gap between the talent in place and the talent the plan requires.
That is why we say we are in the solutions business, not the placement business. Sometimes the solution is a hire. Sometimes it is a succession, a role rebuilt, or a decision not to hire at all. You cannot know which until the objectives are clear, and helping you get them clear is where our work begins.
Not the same job at a different firm.
The easy shortlist is the person doing this job at a competitor. It is also the one most likely to fail, because the job was never the problem. The firm, the culture and the moment were.
We are creative thinkers. We take our time. We partner with you to understand what the role has to achieve, and then we look for the person who will succeed at your firm, in your culture, on your problem. Sometimes that is the obvious candidate. Often it is not.
What you can hold us to.
Completion: every search we accept, we complete. One partner, start to finish, who interviews every candidate and personally obtains every piece of information you see. The whole market, with every restriction named and explained before we begin. Everything in writing. Discretion: no client, candidate or placement is named on this site, or anywhere else.