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Top 25 Executive search firms for education based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 6,451 executive search firms for education headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 86,939 professional contacts across them, including 23,591 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers executive search firms for education headquartered in the 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 28, 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.
The 25 largest executive search firms for education based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,828 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kelly Education is one of the country’s most trusted sources of education talent, serving thousands of schools and institutions and millions of students across the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,376 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,889 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 955 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Career Strategies is a full service staffing firm specializing in Property Management, Healthcare and Professional Services recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 939 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Transforming today’s organisations with tomorrow’s leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 878 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VBeyond is a Search and HR consulting firm- by the Professionals, for the Professionals and of the Professionals!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 807 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “True is modernizing executive hiring by combining global search expertise with the True AI Capability Index™, the industry’s only methodology for assessing candidate adaptability…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 766 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Great organizations need exceptional leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 687 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a leading staffing and executive search firm headquartered in New York City with offices across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 675 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EducationDynamics is transforming higher education by driving outcomes that matter and helping schools understand and serve all Modern Learners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than 35 years, DHR has been a leading provider of executive search, leadership consulting and emerging leader search solutions, serving more than 60 markets around the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ZRG is a global talent advisory firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 492 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MSI International is a leading global recruiting firm that has been supporting the growth and success of companies and enhancing the careers of professionals since 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 490 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Major, Lindsey & Africa is the world’s leading legal search and talent solutions firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 474 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “WittKieffer is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm developing impactful leadership teams for organizations that improve quality of life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 462 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1981, Criterion Executive Search has built a reputation as a premier national recruiting firm, connecting exceptional talent with opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 458 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atlantic Group, founded in 2006, is an industry leader in executive and professional search & staffing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 442 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JJA is a team of executive headhunters specializing in swift, discreet, drama-free placements across the innovation economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 416 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Career Group is a widely recognized name in corporate and administrative recruitment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 402 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HR Personnel Services is a leading national staffing and executive search firm specializing exclusively in placing HR professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a search firm that recruits for all businesses, big or small throughout the United States and Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, StevenDouglas has established itself as a recognized leader in providing access to top talent, driven by highly tenured and experienced professionals committed to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 343 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Century Group is an executive recruiting and professional staffing firm providing top-tier accounting, finance and human resources talent to start-up, mid-market and Fortune 500…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Atlas Search is an executive recruiting firm dedicated to placing accounting, finance, front office, middle office, technology, healthcare, clinical research, human resources, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 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 firms for education. 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 education.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of executive search firms for education, 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 education. 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 education based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 6,451 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 education, 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “executive search firms for education”. 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 education), 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 education, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 23,591 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 28, 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 education by metro
- Executive search firms for education in New York513
- Executive search firms for education in Chicago215
- Executive search firms for education in Houston167
- Executive search firms for education in Atlanta166
- Executive search firms for education in Los Angeles151
- Executive search firms for education in Dallas143
- Executive search firms for education in San Francisco119
- Executive search firms for education in Austin97
- Executive search firms for education in Boston89
- Executive search firms for education in Charlotte78
- Executive search firms for education in Denver75
- Executive search firms for education in Miami71
- Executive search firms for education in Washington65
- Executive search firms for education in San Diego59
- Executive search firms for education in Phoenix57
- Executive search firms for education in Minneapolis56
- Executive search firms for education in Tampa54
- Executive search firms for education in Pittsburgh44
- Executive search firms for education in Seattle44
- Executive search firms for education in Philadelphia42
- Executive search firms for education in Irvine39
- Executive search firms for education in Nashville39
- Executive search firms for education in Cleveland38
- Executive search firms for education in Orlando37
- Executive search firms for education in Columbus36
- Executive search firms for education in Scottsdale33
- Executive search firms for education in Wilmington33
- Executive search firms for education in Plano31
- Executive search firms for education in Portland30
- Executive search firms for education in Raleigh30
- Executive search firms for education in Boca Raton29
- Executive search firms for education in Cincinnati29
- Executive search firms for education in Arlington25
- Executive search firms for education in Indianapolis25
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 education, 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 education are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 6,451 executive search firms for education headquartered in the 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?
Kelly Education, headquartered in Troy, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most executive search firms for education?
New York leads with 513 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (215) and Houston (167).
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 23,591 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,451 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 28, 2026.
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About this data
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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