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Top 25 Nonprofit executive search companies based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 95 nonprofit executive search companies headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 2,941 professional contacts across them, including 413 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.
This list covers nonprofit executive search companies headquartered in Australia, 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 29, 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 nonprofit executive search companies based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 1,884 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Specialists in not-for-profit sector recruitment Australia - Asia Pacific - International - talented professionals placed since 2004 - registered professionals on our candidate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Johnson Partners is an independent, Australasian leadership advisory firm specialising in Board Search, Executive Search, Interim Executive Search and Leadership Succession.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Derwent is one of Australia’s leading Executive Search and Board Advisory firms, partnering with organisations to appoint high-impact leaders who drive long-term success.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Executive Search # Interim Management # Board Appointments # Market Mapping Our intensive, in-house research scours the landscape locally and internationally for the best and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gerard Daniels is an International Executive Search and Board & Executive Leadership firm with offices in the regions of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa and The…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Windsor Group is a profit-for-purpose organisation providing expert HR advice, Executive Search and Staffing solutions across commercial, government and nonprofit sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Insight Group, with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, is a top Australian executive search and talent advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Hourigan, the leadership advisory and executive search partner for organisations shaping what’s next.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are Queensland’s most respected and experienced executive search and human capital advisors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “forza I s.f.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Blenheim Partners is a leading international Executive Search and Board Advisory Firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alex Kaar is a bespoke executive search, recruitment and leadership development firm which sets the benchmark for excellence in both client and candidate service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arete n.[a-reh-tay] origin: Greek 1.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brown & Chase is the Australian partner of the Horton International Group, a worldwide network with over 45 offices across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PARTNER Executive is a specialist executive search and recruitment firm for the industries that power Australia - mining and metals, critical minerals, engineering, energy and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “People for Purpose hold the belief that great leadership can help solve our endemic social and environmental problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our purpose is to evolve the heavy industries that build and power our world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Brooker, we specialise in pairing transformative leaders with forward-thinking organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hutton Consulting is an Australian based educational specialist company providing leadership search, strategy and development services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering purpose-driven organisations through exceptional talent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “YOUmanity is an executive search and organisational consulting firm operating at the intersection of leadership, strategy, and humanity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When you engage Harry Maxwell, you are choosing a better and different recruitment experience defined by discretion and delivery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Executive Search & Recruitment in the not-for-profit sector Health - Aged Care - Disability - Education - Philanthropy” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The de Jager Group was founded by Kris de Jager and this year, the company celebrated their 28th anniversary.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: nonprofit executive search companies. 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 nonprofit executive search companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of nonprofit executive search companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name nonprofit executive search companies. 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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Nonprofit executive search companies based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 29, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 95 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 nonprofit executive search companies, 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 Australia whose own description of what they do matches “nonprofit executive search companies”. 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 nonprofit executive search companies), 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 nonprofit executive search companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia 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, 413 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 29, 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.
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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 nonprofit executive search companies, 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 nonprofit executive search companies are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 95 nonprofit executive search companies headquartered in Australia 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?
NGO Recruitment, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most nonprofit executive search companies?
Sydney leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (29) and Brisbane (5).
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 413 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 95 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 29, 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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