Award-Winning National Executive Search Firm Services

Welcome to Scion Executive Search – Your Partner in Exceptional Leadership Hiring

At Scion Executive Search, we specialize in identifying and securing top-tier executive talent across the United States and globally. With a refined approach to executive search, we connect organizations with transformative leadership that drives long-term success.

Our clients range from Inc. 500 corporations, global brands, and innovative startups to industry-leading technology, product, and service organizations. We are committed to delivering exceptional leadership candidates who align with your strategic goals and company culture.

With seasoned executive recruiters spanning all major U.S. markets and beyond, our team brings deep industry expertise, a vast talent network, and a passion for securing game-changing leadership. Whether you need visionary C-suite executives or specialized senior leaders, we provide the insight, strategy, and talent to elevate your organization.

Partner with Scion Executive Search and experience the power of world-class leadership hiring.

Every leadership transition provides an opportunity for organizational advancement.

No matter your visionary strategic growth goals or internal challenges, our team thrives in curating strategic leadership acquisitions that fuel the development of companies and world class teams.

Scion takes its name from the scion, a part of a plant that when cut off, separated, strategically replanted and cared for, grows into an entirely new thriving plant. We proudly symbolize the continual opportunity to drive successful outcomes through strategic growth. As an established, award-winning firm within the executive search industry and proven talent expert within the U.S. market, Scion proudly connects leading teams and executive boards with curated slates of exceptional executive leadership options. Every candidate slate we deliver is strategically developed to offer proven industry leadership experience and maximize diversity to ensure the achievement of your strategic DEI, industry, and growth goals.

Our approach? We leverage our extensive industry recruiting expertise and an expansive network of over 16,000,000+ talent connections. Through strategic headhunting on your behalf, we thrive on the opportunity to enhance your leadership team by recruiting, delivering, and inspiring the best executive talent in the market. The future is bright for those who choose Scion.

We Are Leaders in the 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.

A recognized leader in the Executive Search Firm industry

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.

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 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!"

    Scott McCormick, Unverferth Mfg. Co. Inc.

  • “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."

    Larry Stevenson, CEO, Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad

  • “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.”

    Matt Glazer, Executive Director, Good Work Austin

  • “I am incredibly grateful, and perpetually indebted, to the team at Scion Executive Search for their exceptional support throughout my journey to becoming a well-established, highly-reputable trade association's new CEO!

    The two outstanding individuals I had the pleasure of working with… truly went above and beyond, providing invaluable guidance, strategic advice, and personalized attention at every step of the candidate vetting/interview/hiring process."

    Leigh Allen II, CEO, Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA)

  • “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."

    Kareece Sacco, Operations Manager, Action in Africa

  • “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.”

    Shaun Carver, Executive Director, International House at UC Berkeley

  • "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."

    Jean Tang, MarketSmiths

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:

Effective Recruitment Partners

We deliver effective leadership talent that is ready to strengthen your organization and deliver success. We understand the essential nature of identifying incredible leaders who are well-aligned with your organization’s mission, vision, culture, to effectively drive your organizational strategy and empower your growth. Our exceptional nationwide team of executive recruiters are highly skilled at partnering with growing clients who produce $10 million to multi-billion-dollar in annual revenue, as well as Fortune 500 companies and startup organizations. We actively recruit for private, public, and pre-IPO employers and we proudly deliver exclusive talent to teams for industry leading companies and scaling enterprises. Time is of the essence. Start your leadership journey now.

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 DEI focus, 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.