Why Choose Scion Executive Search


Scion Executive Search is a national retained nonprofit executive search firm specializing in search leadership for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and educational institutions.


We are proud that our nonprofit executive search services are considered by hundreds of leading organizations and foundations across the U.S. to be the best. The secret to our success isn’t a secret. We are passionate about positioning our clients to achieve enduring success and our firm provides unwavering dedication to maintaining integrity, quality, professionalism, and confidentiality through the personalized service we provide. We are a national retained nonprofit executive search firm and we look forward to partnering with you!

Our Search Strategies

At Scion Executive Search, our values serve at the core of everything we do. We provide comprehensive, efficient, proven, and highly effective executive search strategies. As your trusted advisors in the executive hiring market, we take pride in exceeding the status quo!

Our reputation has a way of preceding us and our history is deeply rooted in the relationships we’ve cultivated with individuals, governmental organizations, universities, corporations, startups, and organizations. Each of our clients receives unparalleled and exclusive reach into national and local networks, containing millions of executive candidate options. 

We are dedicated to the unique needs of your organization as well as the position needing to be filled, and we view each and every search as an opportunity to exceed the expectations of our clients and candidates and make powerful matches for your organization. From executive leadership in social services to foundations, Scion Executive Search stands ready to connect you with the talent you’re searching for!

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Our Network

With offices and staff across the nation, our team of search principals, executive recruiters, and support staff is prepared to support your search. We have built long-standing relationships with industry leaders across the US to build an exclusive, robust, and vast candidate network for our client partners. We look forward to serving our clients and talent to make powerful employment matches!

The Scion Executive Search candidate networks derive from four distinct areas:

(1) Our established private network of executive leaders.

(2) The nonprofit and foundation sector as a whole.

(3) Mission focused executive corporate leadership.

(4) Board members/start-up executives seeking to cross over into the nonprofit sector full-time.