The Talent’s Advocate™.
How we run a discreet search for senior leaders, from the first private conversation to the signed offer, and every difficult decision in between.
Start with a real conversation.
A search begins with a real conversation. We want to know what kind of seat you actually want, what your family needs, where your spouse’s career has to live, what you have already turned down, and why.
When an opportunity fits, we bring it to you. When it does not, we tell you. We would rather lose a placement than put someone somewhere they will regret in two years.
A partner through the whole search.
For hospitals, groups, and institutional clients, the partner who pitches the search is the partner running it. The person calling the talent knows your priorities, your culture, and the searches you have already tried.
No handoffs. No rotating cast of recruiters cycling through your account. Senior, always. The same partner answers when the talent calls.
What we practice.
Everything the firm takes on arrives as one of these engagements. Each is personal, runs in confidence, and moves on the search’s own clock.
- Permanent Search
- Confidential, personally led searches for senior leadership. Each engagement is bespoke. None are accelerated to fit a buyer’s quarter.
- Leadership Assessment
- Structured evaluation of internal succession candidates and external finalists. Used during active searches and engaged stand-alone by boards and operating committees.
- Succession Planning
- Multi-year advisory engagements for institutions facing leadership transition. Pipeline development before a seat opens, with a written succession point of view.
- Board & Trustee Advisory
- Composition guidance for boards seeking operating talent at the director level. Confidential introductions to candidates whose authority matches the governance need.
By the hiring institution.
Northgate™ is paid by the institution that commissions the search. Never by the talent. There is no fee, ever, to be represented, considered, or placed.
Engagements are exclusive, not contingent. The work runs on its own clock, not on the urgency of a billable hour.
The fee never chooses the finalist. Fit does.
The discipline of the no.
No fees from the talent. Northgate™ is the firm institutions engage when the hire cannot be wrong. Our fee is paid by the institution, never by the talent. The people we represent owe us nothing but the truth about what they want.
No contract staffing. No multi-headcount engagements, no locum tenens, no stopgap coverage. Each search is bespoke and runs one role at a time.
When you are ready to make a move,
you need the right people in your corner.