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Top 25 Executive search consultants based in Houston, United States
RevenueBase identified 202 executive search consultants headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,996 professional contacts across them, including 511 with verified work emails and 748 with mobile numbers. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (1,051 companies); Houston has 333.
This list covers executive search consultants headquartered in Houston, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 12, 2026.
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The 25 largest executive search consultants based in Houston, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Core Group Resources connects businesses in various industries and helps them find the right personnel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 134 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When Richard, Wayne & Roberts began in 1978, our goal was to operate on a level of professionalism commensurate with that of the companies we serve.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Professional Alternatives has operated as one of the most award-winning recruiting firms in the nation for 25+ years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Amundson Group is a veteran-owned construction recruiting firm headquartered in Houston, TX, placing superintendents, project managers, estimators, preconstruction, and executive…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of Texas' most successful executive search firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Encore Search Partners is a specialized recruiting firm that focuses on spotlighting the absolute best Professional, Technical, & C-Level Executive talent, nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Talance Group is a Texas-based boutique executive search firm covering Houston and Austin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Scott Humphrey empowers companies and people by redefining recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Clayton Services is a Houston-owned staffing agency and recruiting firm serving Greater Houston employers and job seekers since 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JDA Professional Services, since 1981, has been Streamlining the on boarding process reducing cost and time to hire, recruiting IT professionals to help Houston companies locate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Walker Elliott – Career Placement Consultants for IT, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Engineering Professionals The recruiting team at Walker Elliott is comprised of the finest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Adroit Partners, we are driven to provide the talent our clients require to exceed their objectives through a personal approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Terra Labor Consulting Group, LLC provides comprehensive business solutions to support companies in lead generation consulting, human resources, and financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1984, The Alexander Group has been an industry-leading global executive search firm for more than 40 years, conducting searches for Board and C-Suite positions in a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Executive search is our business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FACET is about managing the human side of change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Preng & Associates, founded in 1980, is the only retainer-based international executive search firm specializing solely in the energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Through its four divisions: Search Finance, Search Technology, Search Support, and Search AI, Search Services is firmly established as the premier recruiting and staffing agency…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ELR is a premier legal search firm offering confidential attorney and professional staff placement and search services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Wilbanks Consulting Group specializes in bringing together innovation & strategy in talent consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Looking to build or enhance your in-house legal team?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Extreme Technologies, Inc.(ETI) began our success in the Houston market in 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Beecher Reagan is the premier specialty retained search firm for transformational leadership in private equity, consulting, business services, and digital & technology services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a recruiting firm specialized in delivering best-fit job placements by spending in depth one-on-one time with each candidate to ensure their success as well as providing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hughes & Associates is an executive recruiting firm based in the heart of Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 12, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: executive search consultants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names executive search consultants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive search consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name executive search consultants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Executive search consultants based in Houston, United States at a glance
As of Sep 12, 2026Companies by employee count
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Median 74.0dHow this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among executive search consultants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Houston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “executive search consultants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names executive search consultants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among executive search consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Houston are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 511 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 12, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names executive search consultants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many executive search consultants are there based in Houston, United States?
RevenueBase identified 202 executive search consultants headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Core Group Resources, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most executive search consultants?
New York leads the United States with 1,051 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (414) and Atlanta (352). Houston has 333.
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 511 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 202 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 12, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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