Award-Winning National Top Retained Executive Search Firm

Award-Winning Retained Executive Search for CEO, CFO, and C-Suite Leadership Since 2006

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:

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.

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

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 and outreach 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.