The Good Search
The Good Search is a retained executive search firm for board, C-suite, and senior leadership roles. We combine investigative research methods with AI-assisted intelligence to surface executives others overlook—without the volume and noise of LinkedIn-dependent recruiting. Powered by Intellerati, our Executive Search Research Lab, we deliver evidence-based shortlists, transparent pricing, and faster time to hire.
Founded by Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Krista Bradford, The Good Search applies investigative research principles to retained executive search. Our proprietary AI-assisted methods—developed and refined in Intellerati, our Executive Search Research Lab—enable us to map organizations, uncover non-obvious candidates, and deliver evidence-based recommendations in days, not months.
We work with Fortune 100 technology companies, private equity portfolio companies, venture-backed startups, and mission-driven organizations that need transformative leaders, not the same names circulating on every search firm’s list.
Representative Clients
Fortune 100 technology companies, private equity portfolio companies, top-tier venture capital startups, and nonprofit organizations come to The Good Search for competitive advantage. Our investigative approach to headhunting uncovers transformative leaders others miss. Increasingly, top-performing technologists want to do work aimed at making a difference in the world. When game-changing CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, and Heads of Engineering are hard to find and even harder to recruit, our investigative approach outperforms traditional headhunting firms. Like the clients we serve, we leverage generative AI to maximize results.
Krista and her team were able to connect us with a list of highly relevant and appropriately qualified candidates for challenging technical leadership roles.
I have worked with dozens of talent acquisition and executive search professionals over the years and Krista is head and shoulders above the crowd.
New to Executive Recruiting?
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Contingency or Retained?
Before you engage an executive headhunter, you must first decide what kind of recruitment firm is right for you: contingency or retained executive search. For important searches for C-level senior executives, there is but one kind of search firm that specializes in senior executive engagements.
Top Retained Headhunters?
If you’re seeking a shortlist of top executive recruitment firms, check out our investigation into the leading lists of top executive recruiting companies on the Internet. We provide numerous examples detailing why you should be wary of most top retained recruitment firm lists.
Industries We Serve
Our technology industry expertise enables us to recruit executives across multiple sectors including Financial Services, Travel & Hospitality, and Healthcare & Life Sciences. Consequently, we recruit executives for Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Companies developing live-saving devices, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines.
Our Capabilities
In addition to executive search services, our investigative approach to headhunting is ideally suited for diversity, equity, and inclusion recruiting and succession bench recruiting. Enhancing the long list helps ensure equal opportunity. That’s just one of the ways we enable Fortune 500 and employers-of-choice to boost diversity at the senior executive level.
National Headhunters
The Good Search headhunters recruit top-performing executives for companies with offices in the United States. We conduct retained executive recruiting for senior leadership positions in the Greater New York City Area (Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York); Greater Boston (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island); Greater Washington DC (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia); Research Triangle (Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina), Greater Chicago, Greater Denver, Greater Austin, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area (Silicon Valley), Portland, and Greater Seattle.
Additionally, we are experts in recruiting senior technologists: Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Chief AI Officers (CAIOs), Chief Data Officers (CDOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), and Chief Digital Officers. Additionally, we recruit Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Heads of Engineering, Heads of Data Science, and Heads of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML).
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No executive search firm is right for every search every time. But we make it a practice to listen and to try to help, regardless.