PierceGray was founded on the premise that the quality of leadership in an organization impacts all aspects of the business. Originating from world-class consulting firms, our founders recognized the issues they were often brought in to solve for shared a common underlying challenge – talent. They saw an opportunity to help growing organizations build strong and capable leadership teams that could operate self-sufficiently.

Today, we are a growing team of dedicated, ambitious, and collaborative peers. We invest in people who are passionate about solving human capital challenges and fundamentally motivated by the impact of our work – because finding the right leader unlocks the potential of an organization and the people within it. As a result, we have built a distinctive culture, search process, and executive network that clients trust.

Operating principles.

Committed to client service.

Everyone on our team, at all levels, acts with an entrepreneurial mindset and embraces the work required to produce exceptional results.

Operating with expertise.

We invest in knowledge. From our assessment methodologies to our data assets and industry practitioners, we view our success as a direct function of our IP and knowledge.

Guiding with the truth.

We sit on the same side of the table as our clients, and we think about success based on the impact and results our placements achieve. We embrace transparency, acknowledge the pros and cons of options, and have the courage to share our insights with grace and respect.

Invested in relationships.

Our ability to navigate to the right talent – and our joy in doing so – is directly connected to treating people with respect and seeing all interactions as contributing to long term relationships.

A culture of collaboration.

We operate as one firm when it comes to client service, leveraging our full resources – regardless of location or sector – on every engagement.

Focused on organic growth.

We operate as a partnership, and we are as proud of our own team as we are of the ones we build for our clients. We are a high growth firm ourselves, enabled solely by investing in our people at all levels. Every day, the team at PierceGray is building the firm we are becoming tomorrow.

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

As Executive Search experts and talent partners with a large portfolio of clients, we recognize the role we play in shaping the composition of leadership teams across America. It is a responsibility we treat with great care. 

We are on a journey of continuous learning that will help us develop deeper knowledge and understanding of how we can foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive hiring practices in organizations where talent feel a sense of belonging. 

Today, we pledge to:

  • Execute creative research and networking strategies that build a diverse pipeline of candidates.
  • Create equal access to our work by publicly posting our clients’ roles in an accessible manner.
  • Adhere to processes and legislation that support pay equity and transparency.
  • Actively work to combat unconscious bias in decision making through active advisory to our clients and strict compliance to our processes.

Our journey.

Our founders came from the operations practices of world-class consulting firms. When supporting clients, they recognized that the underlying issue often involved the talent in the organizations they were serving. So rather than serve clients via short-term consulting engagements, they decided to create PierceGray – to help growing companies build great, self-reliant leadership teams.

Our growth as a firm – across industries, functions and regions – has been intentional and organic. We make ongoing investments in our people, assessment methodologies and practice areas. And we always treat each new client as if they were our first. As a result, we have built a distinctive culture, search process and executive network that clients have come to trust.

As a professional services firm, we pride ourselves on a results-oriented culture made up of committed, intelligent, collaborative team members. We invest in people who are passionate about solving human capital challenges and fundamentally motivated by the impact of our work – because finding the right leader unlocks the potential of an organization and the people within it.