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CEO & C-Suite Succession
Leadership transitions where continuity, stakeholder confidence, and future direction matter.
National Retained Executive Search Firm for C-Suite & Senior Leadership (Landing Page)
NATIONAL RETAINED EXECUTIVE SEARCH
The Right Executive Changes What Is Possible.
When the leadership decision matters most, Scion Retained Search gives you the market reach, executive access, assessment rigor, and search counsel to make it with confidence.
From CEO succession and C-suite appointments to confidential replacements and transformative leadership hires, we build every search around the business outcomes your next leader must deliver.
CEO succession, C-suite leadership, board search, confidential replacement, growth, and transformation engagements.
20 Years of Search Experience
1,000+ Executives Placed
98%+ Executive Retention
16M+ Talent Reach
Nationwide Search
WHEN LEADERSHIP MATTERS MOST
Some Searches Are Too Important for a Conventional Recruiting Process.
Retained executive search is built for moments when the appointment can materially affect enterprise value, strategy, culture, growth, organizational performance, or stakeholder confidence.
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Growth & Scale
Executives who have successfully led through greater organizational, financial, operational, and commercial complexity.
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Private Equity & Investor-Backed Growth
Operators capable of creating value at the pace, discipline, and accountability investors require.
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Transformation & Turnaround
Leaders prepared to reshape strategy, teams, operations, organizational capability, and performance.
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Confidential Replacement
Discreet searches requiring thoughtful market engagement, controlled communication, and careful stakeholder management.
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New Strategic Leadership
Building executive functions and capabilities your organization has not previously needed.
THE SCION APPROACH
Do Not Wait for the Right Executive to Apply. Go Find Them.
The executives most capable of changing an organization are rarely sitting in an applicant pool waiting for the right posting.
Scion builds the market around your leadership mandate. We identify where the right executives are likely to be, engage them directly and confidentially, evaluate their ability to deliver against your strategy, and advise stakeholders throughout the decision.
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Define the Leadership Mandate
Translate strategy, organizational context, stakeholder priorities, and business outcomes into a clear definition of success.
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Map the Executive Market
Identify target organizations, adjacent sectors, relevant leadership backgrounds, and geographic talent pools.
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Engage Proven Leaders
Reach passive and high-performing executives through thoughtful, confidential, and direct outreach.
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Assess Beyond the Résumé
Evaluate accomplishments, leadership capability, motivation, operating style, strategic alignment, and capacity to scale.
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Advise Through Appointment
Support stakeholder alignment, finalist decisions, references, compensation strategy, closing, and executive transition.
EXECUTIVE SEARCH EXPERTISE
Leadership Searches Across the Functions That Drive the Enterprise.
We lead retained searches across the C-suite and senior leadership functions responsible for strategy, finance, operations, people, revenue, technology, and organizational performance.
CEO
CEO & President
Enterprise leadership, succession, transformation, and growth.
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CFO
CFO & Finance Leadership
Strategic finance, capital, reporting, transformation, and scale.
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COO
COO & Operations Leadership
Operations, execution, infrastructure, performance, and growth.
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CHRO
CHRO & People Leadership
Talent, culture, organizational design, and people strategy.
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CRO / CMO / CSO
Revenue, Sales & Marketing
Commercial growth, GTM strategy, brand, market, and revenue.
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CTO / CIO
Technology, Data & AI
Technology, information, cybersecurity, data, digital, and AI.
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We also lead Board, Legal, General Counsel, Product, Commercial, Science, Medical, EVP, SVP, VP, and specialized functional searches throughout the United States.
INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE SEARCH
Leadership Context Matters. So Does Industry Experience.
We build each search around the organization's market, ownership structure, growth stage, competitive environment, and strategic priorities rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all leadership profile.
Private Equity & Portfolio Companies
Value creation, operating leadership, and investor-backed growth.
→Technology & AI
SaaS, software, AI, data, cybersecurity, and digital businesses.
→Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare systems, healthtech, biotech, pharma, and medical.
→Financial Services
Banking, fintech, insurance, investment, and financial leadership.
→Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturing, engineering, operations, and supply chain.
→Professional Services
Consulting, advisory, legal, and business services.
→Consumer & CPG
Consumer brands, retail, products, eCommerce, and growth.
→Energy & Infrastructure
Energy, renewables, clean technology, and infrastructure.
→Scion also serves startups and high-growth companies, media and entertainment, legal organizations, sports, education, mission-driven organizations, and additional specialized markets.
A DISCIPLINED SEARCH. A CLEAR DECISION.
From Leadership Mandate to Executive Appointment.
Every engagement is customized, but the search remains structured, transparent, and focused on reaching the strongest possible market.
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Discovery
Define the leadership mandate and measures of success.
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Map
Build the target market and executive universe.
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Engage
Approach and qualify proven leaders confidentially.
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Assess
Evaluate alignment and present the strongest executives.
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Appoint
Guide references, compensation, closing, and transition.
PROOF BEYOND PROMISES
A Search Partner Measured by Who We Help You Hire.
Our experience, executive reach, long-term placement performance, client feedback, and national recognition provide the foundation for every search we lead.
98%+
Executive Retention
Long-term placement performance reflecting organizational alignment.
1,000+
Executives Placed
Leadership placements across organizations and markets nationwide.
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Years of Experience
Executive recruiting and search expertise serving organizations since 2006.
16M+
Talent Reach
Expansive access to executive and specialized leadership talent.
YOUR SEARCH STARTS HERE
Tell Us What Your Next Leader Must Accomplish.
You do not need a finished job description or fully defined executive profile. Tell us about the business challenge, leadership need, and what success looks like. We can help define the mandate, assess the market, and determine the right search strategy.
Prefer to speak directly? Call (888) 369-8952
RETAINED EXECUTIVE SEARCH FAQ
Questions About Retained Search.
A few answers for organizations evaluating executive search support or preparing to begin an engagement.
Retained executive search is a dedicated recruitment engagement
for strategically important leadership positions. It typically
includes discovery, market mapping, direct executive outreach,
assessment, finalist management, references, compensation guidance,
and offer support.
Retained search is especially valuable when the role is highly
consequential, confidentiality matters, the strongest executives
are unlikely to be actively applying, or the organization needs
comprehensive market research and disciplined stakeholder alignment.
Scion recruits CEOs, presidents, board leaders, CFOs, COOs,
CHROs, chief people officers, CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, CMOs, CROs,
sales leaders, legal executives, general counsel, product leaders,
executive vice presidents, senior vice presidents, vice presidents,
and other critical senior leaders.
Yes. Confidential searches can be structured around controlled
communication, targeted executive outreach, thoughtful market
mapping, and careful management of candidate and stakeholder
information throughout the engagement.
Start with the business situation, leadership need, location,
priorities, timeline, and any information you already have.
You do not need a finished job description. Scion can help
clarify the mandate, executive profile, market strategy,
engagement structure, and next steps.