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Top 25 Executive search firms for business development based in Houston, United States

Name: Executive search firms for business development based in Houston, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026 188 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 188 executive search firms for business development headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,408 professional contacts across them, including 414 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (761 companies); Houston has 188.

This list covers executive search firms for business development 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 30, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 30, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

188Companies

1,408Contacts tracked

414Verified emails

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The 25 largest executive search firms for business development based in Houston, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 188 executive search firms for business development based in Houston, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 30, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to executive search firms for business development: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Richard, Wayne & Roberts	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	51-200	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 30, 2026
2	Professional Alternatives	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	51-200	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 30, 2026
3	Qualitec Consulting Group, LP	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	52 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are one of Texas' most successful executive search firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
4	Encore Search Partners, LLC	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
5	Talance Group	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	44 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Talance Group is a Texas-based boutique executive search firm covering Houston and Austin.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
6	Clayton Services	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
7	JDA Professional Services, INC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
8	Walker Elliott	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect 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 30, 2026
9	NRT Group	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	n/a	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “NRT Group is committed to helping you find top sales individuals in your industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
10	Terra Labor Consulting Group, LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
11	The Alexander Group, Executive Search	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
12	Manhattan Resources	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Executive search is our business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
13	Preng & Associates	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
14	The Wilbanks Consulting Group	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Wilbanks Consulting Group specializes in bringing together innovation & strategy in talent consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
15	Extreme Technologies, INC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Extreme Technologies, Inc.(ETI) began our success in the Houston market in 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
16	Beecher Reagan	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
17	Contemporary Recruiting	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	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 30, 2026
18	Hughes & Associates	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hughes & Associates is an executive recruiting firm based in the heart of Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
19	Hire Talent	Strong evidence	Houston, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Hire Talent Difference As a leading resource in interim solutions and executive recruitment, we have conducted thousands of searches across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
20	Toby Richey & Associates	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Toby Richey & Associates is one of the largest national recruiting firms whose sole focus is placing top producing financial advisors with major Wall Street firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
21	BFL Associates LTD	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
22	The Edge Group	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Ranked 4th largest Houston area executive search firm in 2025 by the Houston Business Journal, The Edge Group is comprised of ten professionals with more than one hundred years of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
23	Continuum Solutions	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	11 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Continuum Solutions is a women-owned boutique search firm founded to serve founders, executives, and leadership teams navigating their most critical talent decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
24	Morgan Benjamin Search Group	Strong evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Morgan Benjamin Search Group is an executive recruiting firm, rooted in Houston, Texas, with a nationwide reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026
25	Lincoln Leadership Advisors LLC	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 30, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Who We Are Lincoln Leadership Advisors is a boutique search and talent management firm with capabilities across industries and geographies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026

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 firms for business development. 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 firms for business development.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of executive search firms for business development, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name executive search firms for business development. 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 firms for business development based in Houston, United States at a glance

As of Sep 30, 2026

29.4%Verified-email coverage

7.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 30, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

136

11-50

51-200

1,001-5,000

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 188 companies.

How 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 firms for business development, 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 firms for business development”. 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 firms for business development), 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 firms for business development, 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, 414 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 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Executive search firms for business development by metro in the United States

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 firms for business development, 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 firms for business development are there based in Houston, United States?

RevenueBase identified 188 executive search firms for business development 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?

Richard, Wayne & Roberts, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most executive search firms for business development?

New York leads the United States with 761 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (273) and Los Angeles (223). Houston has 188.

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 414 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 188 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 30, 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.