Award-Winning National Top Retained Executive Search Firm

Award-Winning Retained Executive Search for CEO, CFO, C-Suite & Departmental Leadership 

A National Leader in Principal-Led Retained Executive Search

Scion Executive Search is an award-winning national retained executive search firm specializing in chief executive and C-suite leadership placements for U.S.-based organizations. For 20 years, we have advised corporations, investor-backed companies, global brands, and mission-driven institutions during pivotal leadership transitions, succession planning, expansion initiatives, and complex growth strategies.

Our retained search engagements are principal-led and executed with rigor, discretion, and disciplined market intelligence. Each search includes structured market mapping, confidential executive outreach, and comprehensive leadership evaluation to ensure alignment with your strategic, financial, and cultural objectives. We routinely conduct confidential searches for publicly traded and privately held organizations where privacy, brand stewardship, and executive-level credibility are essential.

Since 2006, we have completed executive searches for more than 1,000 organizations across the United States and internationally, placing CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CHROs, CMOs, CIOs, CTOs, CLOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and senior functional leaders. Our firm stands behind every engagement with a comprehensive placement guarantee and maintains a consistent record of 100% client satisfaction, supported by a 98+% placement retention rate and a proven history of delivering measurable executive leadership outcomes. Honored by Best of Staffing, Inc. 5000, The Business Times, and The Business Journal, and recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Search Firms, Scion Executive Search is trusted by organizations that require precision, accountability, and sustained leadership impact.

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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:

Strategic Executive Search Built for Impact

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:

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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.

  • “I had the pleasure of working with Scion Executive Search 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 Executive Search. 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."

  • “Working with Scion Executive Search 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 they did, 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 SES.”

  • "My company, MarketSmiths, has hired 4 people recruited by Scion Executive Search. I love their 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

Scion Executive Search is proud of the measurable impact we have made across the executive search industry and the enterprises we are honored to support. Our results include:

✔ 20 years of nationally recognized executive search leadership

✔ 20 years of industry thought leadership, participating in national human resources and recruiting conferences, events, and expert panels

✔ 1,000+ senior executives placed nationwide, driving billions in enterprise revenue and strengthening organizations and families across the country

✔ 100+ five-star client and executive reviews, with new endorsements added consistently

✔ 98%+ and rising long-term executive placement retention rate

✔ Proud member of the American Staffing Association and SHRM partner

These outcomes reflect disciplined, principal-led search execution and a clear commitment to long-term leadership alignment rather than short-term placements. If you are preparing for a critical executive hire, our team is ready to partner with you to secure the leader who will strengthen your organization and drive measurable results.