Executive Search: Our Approach
We center your people and your organization’s values.
Since our founding, we have honed a more strategic, flexible, and values-based approach to executive search.
NPAG was founded in 2002 to provide executive search services that are tailored to client needs, equity-centered, and attentive to candidate experience. Since then, we have partnered with a broad range of foundations and nonprofits working in racial and gender equity, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive health, democracy preservation, public health, economic justice, climate, and other social justice movements. We are a women-owned and women-led firm with a diverse team of 15+ professionals, and we have completed over 1,400 searches nationally and globally over nearly 25 years.
The NPAG Difference
We have developed practices that reflect our proven and practical commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, including: proactively mapping and effectively engaging diverse networks throughout the search, identifying and removing obstacles to participation in searches that have historically disproportionately hurt candidates of color, women, and people with disabilities, and bringing tools, norms, and strategies that help our clients identify and mitigate different forms of bias as they surface in searches.
We prioritize relationships. Whether with clients, with candidates, with our networks, and with community partners, we create conditions for engagement and experiences that are participatory rather than extractive. We ensure all team members affected by a hire – regardless of their positional authority – have the opportunity to provide confidential, candid feedback at the beginning of each search process about what is important to them.
We communicate transparently and often. It is critical to the integrity of the process that people who have contributed throughout understand their role, how their input will be incorporated, and how and why decisions are being made.
We stick with you. We’re invested in the long-term success of your team. Beyond the hiring process, we can help co-design onboarding and transition processes and identify and/or provide coaching and professional development resources needed to support incoming leaders and teams.
