Award-Winning National Top Retained Executive Search Firm

Secure High Impact Executive Talent Quickly with Our Top Retained Executive Search Firm

At Scion Executive Search, we empower organizational growth by rapidly delivering market leaders who drive revenue expansion, innovation, and lasting impact. As one of the nation’s premier retained executive search firms, we provide transformational leadership for forward-thinking organizations. For nearly 20 years, we’ve successfully placed top executive talent at more than 1,000 corporations, startups, global brands, emerging businesses, and organizations across the U.S. and internationally.

Our award-winning retained search practice specializes in placing exceptional C-suite executives across the US including CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, and CLOs, Vice Presidents and Directors, all with proven expertise in your industry.

We proudly serve a wide range of clients, from Inc. 500 companies and global enterprises to high-growth startups. 

Accelerate Your Organizational Success with Our C-Level Executive Recruiting Services

With seasoned executive search consultants located across every major U.S. market and global reach, Scion Executive Search delivers the leadership that drives lasting success. Our expertise spans consulting, business services, finance, technology, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, logistics, creative, legal, and mission-driven sectors. With deep industry knowledge and a refined, proven search process, our national team consistently delivers leaders who align with your organization’s goals, values, and long-term vision.

Our consultants combine an expansive talent network with an unwavering commitment to excellence. We are passionate about securing visionary leaders who strengthen organizations and inspire growth. No matter your strategic goals or internal challenges, our team thrives on curating executive leadership that accelerates performance and fuels innovation. Every candidate slate we deliver is strategically developed to ensure the right cultural and organizational fit, empowering you to achieve sustainable growth.

Scion takes its name from the “scion,” a part of a plant that, when carefully replanted, flourishes into a new, thriving organism. We proudly symbolize that same opportunity for organizations—to grow stronger and more resilient through the right leadership. Since our founding, we have connected corporations, startups, nonprofit organizations, and executive boards with leaders who make measurable impact.

Our approach is driven by precision and reach. We leverage an expansive network of more than 16,000,000+ talent connections and apply a hands-on headhunting methodology tailored to your industry. This ensures your leadership team is enhanced by exceptional executives who will deliver on today’s needs while shaping tomorrow’s vision.

Partner with Scion Executive Search and experience a proven search process designed to deliver unparalleled leadership at local, statewide, and national levels—across all major U.S. markets and remote locations.

The future is bright for those who choose Scion.

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We Are Leaders in the Retained Executive Search Industry

Scion is an award-winning executive search firm consistently recognized by the Forbes List of Best Executive Search Firms in the US, Inc. 5000, The Business Times, The Business Journal, and ClearlyRated for our exceptional talent service. Since 2006, we have been continually recognized for our expansive executive leadership network, proven networking abilities, passion for our industry, and exceptional service to both client and candidate alike.

Scion Executive Search offers comprehensive solutions for high-performing leadership to goal-oriented teams and organizations. As a national search firm that specializes in customized talent searches for the United States, we are highly skilled in identifying, interviewing, and delivering stellar candidate slates which are comprised of proven industry experience as well as diversity. Partner with us and see how we empower and grow companies to greatness. Start your journey to find your next executive team leader today.

Proven, Reliable, Consistent, Exceptional Leadership Results

Since 2006, our award-winning executive recruiting experts empower and curate business outcomes one incredible executive leadership placement at a time. Your success is core to our business. Ready to level up your search strategy? Our team offers a proven search process to ensure that you are armed with the best leadership candidates for your goals.

Core Practice Areas By Industry

Scion provides relationships with executives across industries from Fortune 500 to emerging businesses, startups, and international corporations. Our talent experts offer unmatched insights into a vast array of industries to provide our employer clients with proven talent options offering industry specific experience.

Our executive search services encompass optimizing organizational strategy, talent acquisition, headhunting, networking, maximizing candidate slate diversity, executive candidate management, scheduling, project management, reporting, experience verification, employment offer facilitation, and executive search leadership. We strategically oversee and deliver comprehensive best in class executive search services that ensure dependable hiring results.

Our areas of industry specialization include:

Highly Effective Executive Recruitment

We deliver leadership talent that drives measurable results. Our focus is securing executives who align seamlessly with your mission, vision, and culture while strengthening strategy, inspiring teams, and accelerating growth. Our nationwide team of seasoned recruiters partners with organizations of all sizes, from high-performing startups to Fortune 500 corporations and pre-IPO innovators. With proven success across private and public employers, we consistently connect clients with transformative leaders who deliver lasting value.

Clients rely on us to act quickly and strategically, applying deep industry expertise and a refined search process. We identify and secure executives who can make an immediate impact while aligning with long-term goals. Your next leader is already within reach. Let’s begin the search today.

Our Expertise

Scion leads strategic, focused, and expedient searches for executive talent to provide best-in-class business leaders for entities hiring talent within the United States and beyond. We bring expansive candidate resources and exclusive global talent networks, which offer brilliant leaders who are open to new leadership opportunities, as well as powerful networking and headhunting capabilities.

Scion’s industry recruiting experts lead executive searches for:

  • “I had the pleasure of working with Scion as a candidate in one of their searches and I cannot speak highly enough about the experience. From the very start, the team was professional, attentive, and extremely helpful in ensuring I had a good understanding of the role they were trying to while also assessing my skills and my personal alignment with opportunity along with my values and long-term ambitions. When I needed to fill a senior-level position in my new organization, I immediately sought assistance from Scion. Once again (my recruiter) and her team did an amazing job delivering quality candidates for consideration for the role. They handled the search quickly and efficiently and I could not be happier with the eventual hiring of a very highly qualified and motivated candidate."

  • "I couldn’t be happier with our decision to partner with Scion. The quality of candidates we received, for our hard-to-fill role, exceeded our expectations in every way. The communication from the staff we worked with at Scion couldn’t have been better making sure we stayed on target with our timeline while ensuring we brought on the best fit for the role. Thank you Scion!"

  • “Working with SCION is a wonderful experience. They are professional, kind, insightful, strategic, and so much more. I specifically worked with…who is outrageously smart. They brought the project in on time, on budget, and provided the board with exceptional candidates. Because of the work of…and SCION, Good Work Austin had an embarrassment of riches to select from. We are in the process of onboarding now, but I can't imagine ever working with anyone, or any firm, besides SCION.”

  • “Working with…was a game changer for our candidate search! I know we would not have found as high-quality of a candidate as quickly as we did without the help of Scion. They handled everything for us through the interviewing and offer process and it was a game-changer for our small team with little bandwidth."

  • “We worked with Scion… for our CFO recruitment. We had a very tight timeline and they were able to ensure we 1) had a great pool of diverse candidates that met our criteria 2) facilitated communication between the staff and candidates, and 3) supported us through negotiations, contracting, and onboarding. All-in-all, I would highly recommend them.”

  • "My company, MarketSmiths, has hired 4 people recruited by Scion. I love Scion’s careful process of listening closely to needs, presenting candidates in tidy packages, and clearly communicating expectations on both sides. We also appreciate the value of extra touches such as final reference checks. This is the most thoughtful recruiting service I have ever used."

The Executive Search Industry and Our Impact

The executive search industry generates more than $15.6 billion dollars in total revenue worldwide. As the ever-expanding demand for new skills and technology continue to evolve, the global skills gap continues to create added pressure for companies while also driving competition to retain experienced and proven executives. While many market factors are at play, the executive search industry continues to thrive today.

“We reflect and embody the change we want to see in the executive search industry.”

Energized by the power of the unprecedented market growth, the need for successful brands and fortune 500 companies to leverage specialized executive search experts, who focus on headhunting, outreach, and DEI, has never been more important. Size no longer dictates impact. Modern employers are seeking more from our industry than the large global executive search firms leveraging a one size fits all approach to search leadership and process can provide. In addition to a relationship driven approach, Scion Executive Search provides proven experience and an exceptional track record, a firm commitment to transparent and high-touch communication, reliability, as well as modern processes that strategically drive hiring success.

Our firm’s internal and external commitment to service excellence, socially conscious business practices, as well as our modern approach to proactive, and agile client-centered recruiting reflect the industry as it should be built. Scion Executive Search’s extensive global networking resources and our passion for your business is what sets us apart. Allow us to show you why thousands of growing national and international employers choose Scion.