AESC Welcomes Ten New Executive Search & Leadership Advisory Firms into Membership

New York – September 28, 2016 - The Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) announces the addition of ten executive search and leadership advisory firms into AESC’s global membership. Their approval follows extensive reference checks, site visits, votes by AESC regional councils and commitment to the AESC Code of Professional Practice and Standards of Excellence.

AESC welcomes:

• Alderbrooke

• Beigbeder CEO Advisory

• Bushell & Cornish

• Coulter Partners

• Dwight Cribb GmbH

• Morgan Young

• Omera Partners

• RSR Partners

• Steinbach & Partner

• The Phillips Group

Alderbrooke provides executive search and advisory services specializing in assessment and diagnostics. They work across sectors with boards, management teams and human resources to help clients deliver and exceed strategic objectives by providing executive search and innovative performance diagnostic tools that measure, assess and develop talent, turning insight into a strategic advantage. As of 2016, Alderbrooke is part of The Global Community for Leaders (TGCL) partnership with offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Geneva, Dubai, Bogotá and Mexico City.

Based in Paris, Beigbeder CEO Advisory provides services in CEO-level executive search and board advisory. Founder Jean-Michel Beigbeder brings 40 years of experience in executive search and advisory services including the appointment of executive committee members, including CEO, reviewing and assessing executive teams and developing key people. The partners take on trusted advisor roles for successful CEOs of outstanding reputation in France who need personal coaching and development. The firm offers on a retainer basis innovative external/internal CEO searches in a context of urgent and confidential CEO succession within the Private Equity and Industrial sectors.

Bushell & Cornish Pty Ltd was founded in 1995 with a charter to provide quality consultancy services throughout Australasia to private and public sector clients in Mining & Processing; Engineering; Government Agencies & GOCs; Construction & Construction Materials; Energy; Oil & Gas; Manufacturing and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). They have practices in executive search & selection, organizational change & development and leadership. Headquartered in Brisbane since 1995, Bushell & Cornish Pty Ltd also provides consulting services in outplacement and career transitioning.

Founded in 2003, Coulter Partners is a global search specialist focused exclusively on Life Sciences in the American, UK and European markets. The Coulter Partners mission is to impact the industry’s ability to deliver advances in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and management of disease by bringing the world’s best talent to a broad spectrum of global clients; from multinationals, to small and midcap businesses, as well as to the global investor community, building their own teams and the boards and executive leadership of their portfolio investments. Headquartered in London, Coulter Partners has offices in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.

Based in Hamburg and founded in 1998, Dwight Cribb GmbH is one of the leading firms for the recruitment of executives with strong digital backgrounds. Since 1998 Dwight Cribb advises digital businesses and those meeting the challenges of digital transformation. Cribb’s experienced executive search practitioners aid firms in hiring top-tier talent and take an active role in developing appropriate organizational structures for digitally oriented markets. Dwight Cribb, Managing Director of the firm commented: "We are happy to join AESC, whose member firms are committed to the highest professional standards of excellence in executive search and leadership consulting.”

Founded in 2007 in Australia, Morgan Young offers executive search, leadership advisory, diversity, board search, and market intelligence services to leading Technology and Financial Services companies throughout Asia Pacific. They offer practices specializing in Big Data; Risk Management; High Performance Analytics; Institutional & Retail Banking and Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO). Their process is based on thorough research, corroborated market-source commentary, best-in-class knowledge management, broad networks and significant tenure in the market. They operate offices in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Founded in 2002, Omera Partners specializes in executive search, board search and selection, leadership advisory, board consulting and CEO succession. To find diverse and talented people for their clients, Omera Partners hires diverse talent. Their global consulting team is as much about diversity of thought as experience, ethnicity, gender and age. From MBAs to entrepreneurs, Oxbridge to School of Life, their team offers a breadth of experience to match their clients’ unique requirements in the global workplace. Headquartered in Sydney, Omera Partners maintains offices in Brisbane, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Singapore.

For more than 20 years, RSR Partners has specialized in corporate governance consulting, director and senior-level recruiting and strategic talent advisory. Founded by Chairman Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., RSR Partners offers its clientele an exclusive level of advisors who have both in-depth domain expertise and a global network as their search resource. This has positioned RSR Partners as a premier board and executive recruiting firm for global business today. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, RSR Partners maintains offices in Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo.

Founded in 1984, Steinbach & Partner provides services in executive search, executive coaching and assessment, with specializations in the Automotive; Industrial; Healthcare; Consumer Goods and Professional Services sectors. Their day-to-day business is to achieve high-quality international executive search results that give their clients a competitive edge in dynamic markets. Based in Germany, the firm operates offices in Bad Homburg, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nuremberg, Pune, São Paulo, Shanghai and Stuttgart.

Based in Dubai and originally founded in 1984 and re-opened in Dubai in 2012, The Phillips Group helps companies build championship leadership teams, offering executive search, executive assessment and coaching with a specialization in Family Offices; Healthcare; Real Estate and Construction; Banking and Financial Services. Whether it's assisting Fortune 500 companies acquire and retain top performing senior executives or advising leading Chief Executive Officers on developing their human capital, The Phillips Group has experience in securing leadership talent from all four corners of the world.

About the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants

Since 1959, AESC has set the standard for quality and ethics in executive search and leadership consulting worldwide. Because AESC members must commit and adhere to the AESC's industry and government recognized Code of Professional Practice and Standards of Excellence, clients can be assured that AESC members are able to serve as trusted advisors for their most important engagements. As the voice for executive search and leadership consultants worldwide, today AESC is comprised of more than 300 member firms, representing 9,000 executive search professionals in 70+ countries. To learn more about AESC and its membership, visit www.aesc.org. For information about AESC's career service for executive-level professionals, visit www.bluesteps.com.