Building Culture Amidst the Storm
How nonprofit CEOs are building organizational culture while battling the coronavirus. The global lockdown to fight the COVID-19 virus dispersed nonprofit organizations from their traditional work environments into remote and virtual ones. CarterBaldwin asked the leaders of Compassion International, Habitat for Humanity, Goodwill Industries, and several others how they are [...]
Andrea McDaniel Smith named Partner, CarterBaldwin Executive Search
CarterBaldwin Executive Search is pleased to announce Andrea McDaniel Smith has become a Partner of the firm. Andrea brings a wealth of experience in mission-based organizations and will further expand CarterBaldwin’s scope and capacity in social enterprise, public policy, and the global nonprofit arena. Andrea joined CarterBaldwin in 2015 following [...]
An Impromptu Conversation with our Managing Partner, David Clapp, on our Culture and Core Values
Our Managing Partner, David Clapp, gives insight into the importance of CarterBaldwin’s culture and core values with a friend and seasoned entrepreneur and angel investor, Charlie Paparelli. Spend time with us and you will find these values to be the essence of “who we are.” […]
CarterBaldwin Remains Among Top firms in several Hunt Scanlon Executive Search Rankings
Hunt Scanlon presents its annual executive search rankings, recognizing CarterBaldwin Executive Search in three significant categories including Top 50 Recruiters, Private Equity Recruiting Power 75 and the Top 40 in Higher Education. Rankings are based on an in-depth evaluation of the largest recruiting and talent leadership solutions firms to the [...]
Managing Culture in Chaos
As our team at CarterBaldwin has sought to respond to these unprecedented times, the need to maintain - and indeed even strengthen - our culture in the midst of a dramatically different work environment has been front and center for us. Our team asked a number of our client [...]
CarterBaldwin is proud to announce the appointment of our Chairman, Price Harding, to the Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees.
WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation today named Price Harding as the newest member of its Board of Trustees. Harding is the chairman of CarterBaldwin, one of the largest and most successful executive search firms in the United States. Over his 30-year executive search career, Harding has been principal consultant on more than [...]
CarterBaldwin is proud to announce the appointment of our Partner, Jennifer Sobocinski, to the inaugural Advisory Board for ReluTech.
CarterBaldwin is proud to announce the appointment of our Partner, Jennifer Sobocinski, to the inaugural Advisory Board for ReluTech. Jennifer is an avid proponent of Atlanta’s tech community and previously spent seven years on the Board of Women in Technology in Atlanta. Jennifer also sits on the Board of JDRF, [...]
CarterBaldwin is honored to be the 2019 presenting sponsor of MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta’s Distinguished Entrepreneur Gala.
CarterBaldwin is honored to be the 2019 presenting sponsor of MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta's Distinguished Entrepreneur Gala. We are proud to support the roles that standout entrepreneurs such as Scott Grimes and Lynne Laube at Cardlytics are playing in our great city of Atlanta. Every other year, The MIT [...]
CarterBaldwin is proud to support Atlanta’s Stuff the Bus Campaign
CarterBaldwin employees partnered with WSB-TV to donate and deliver new school supplies to ensure Atlanta students in need started the school year with the confidence they need to succeed in the classroom. Thankful for all of those who helped make this fundraiser a success!
CarterBaldwin is proud to support the Atlanta Area Council; Boy Scouts of America
Partner, Chris Guiney and team came alongside Mr. Peter Heintzelman and Mr. Kevin Greiner at the Whitmey M. Young Jr. Service Awards Luncheon here in Atlanta. This award is designed to recognize those individuals and corporations who have been instrumental in the development of Scouting for rural, urban, and suburban [...]
CarterBaldwin partner appointed to the board of the Georgia branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)
CarterBaldwin Executive Search is pleased to announce that Jennifer Sobocinski has been appointed to the board of the Georgia branch of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). Jennifer is a Founding Partner of CarterBaldwin and leads the firm’s industrial and technology practices. She has been involved in the JDRF [...]
CarterBaldwin Executive Search again named by Forbes
Forbes—in partnership with analytics firm Statista - compiled the list based on a number of different criteria, in particular the feedback received after surveying thousands of recruiters, candidates, and HR Executives who have worked with recruiting firms over the last three years. Those who were surveyed were asked to [...]
The Single Most Important Role of a CEO
Even as I write the title, I know that it is audacious. Nobody could so precisely synthesize the unending responsibilities of a CEO into a single most important role. But we believe there is one … A simple search of the internet indicates that this is not the first time [...]
CarterBaldwin Executive Search has been named by Forbes as one of “America’s Best Executive Search Firms”
Forbes—in partnership with analytics firm Statista—compiled the list based on a number of different criteria, in particular the feedback received after surveying thousands of recruiters, candidates, and HR Executives who have worked with recruiting firms over the last three years. Those who were surveyed were asked to identify up to [...]
The Zone of Pressure vs. the Zone of Contentment
While we certainly can’t dictate every outcome, we can align our teams and resources to maximize our chances of success. Said another way, the championship is not always won in the draft, but I like my odds better when I’ve got a team comprised of the right athletes. A crucial [...]
Measuring Trust
When we conduct a search for an executive who will succeed in a leadership role with one of our clients we take into consideration what we believe to be the four critical components of a successful “fit.” These elements of fit include the skill set that the executive brings to [...]
The Talent to Differentiate
The tax, accounting and consulting market has experienced seismic shifts in recent years. Several factors have played into the fast rate of change, including continued economic uncertainty, earnings pressure, aggressive federal and state tax jurisdictions, global regulatory change and more aggressive competition between firms. Regional firms are pushing up market. [...]
When Servant Leadership becomes…Leader Servantship
I taught high school Sunday School for nearly a decade. One of my students was the quarterback of the local football team, and whenever I asked him a question that he was not sure of the answer, he would smile real big and slowly say “Jesus”? No kidding…he got a [...]