ACE Affiliate Members Directory

​​​​​​​​​​​​​ACE gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their participation in the ACE Affiliate Members program and the Executive Search Roundtable.  Annual membership contributions help to sustain ACE programs and initiatives.

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Abundance International Education Institute

Abundance International Education Institute (AIEI), established in 2002 in Shenzhen, China. With full commitment to adult executive education, over 26 teaching centers have been set up in China nationwide, covering all the major cities. So far, over 15,000 people have been empowered with the international degree certificates issued by our partner universities (from the U.S and Europe globally) through the programs we provide. Because of AIEI's professionalism and outstanding educational service, it becomes a leading company in adult executive education industry. And AIEI is also the first-ever corporate member of AACSB and ICDE in China. We shall stride forward to the great cause of lifelong education.​

2406, Block A, Tianza International
Nashan District
Shenzhen, Guangdon Province
China


​​​Academic Career & Executive Search 

Designed for efficiency and flexibility, our academic executive search and academic career services are high precision but inexpensive. Savings are passed to the client. Executive Search: 6 search options for every need and budget. The only constant – a unique search process driven by experienced recruiters, researchers and academics guaranteed to attract the ideal candidate. We work with the client until we find the right fit.

Academic Career Services offers critical insight to aspiring higher education candidates. Together the founders and coaches provide first hand, real life, real world solutions.

PO Box 370485 
West Hartford, CT 06119 ​

Academic Search, Inc.

Academic Search is an executive search firm serving higher education institutions and related organizations since 1976. We are committed to excellent executive search and developing the academy pipeline through leadership development.

1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036​

Adtalem Global Education​​​​​​

At Adtalem, Our Mission is to Expand Access to Education. Our business model is designed to educate, train and prepare healthcare professionals at scale. With projected nursing and physician shortages on the rise, it’s a public health imperative to create a robust pipeline of qualified and diverse talent to meet these evolving needs and fill critical healthcare gaps for the betterment of the healthcare industry and the wellbeing of our communities.

500 W Monroe St.
Floor 28
​Chicago, IL 60661

AGB Search

AGB Search focuses exclusively on higher education leadership. We offer interim appointments to preserve continuity, full search services to help institutions navigate the hiring process, transition assistance to set up leaders for long-term success, and compensation evaluation services to help assure fair competitive salaries. Each member of our consulting team brings years of experience as a higher education leader to the firm. We not only understand the demands of leadership, but also are deeply invested in supporting the next generation of leaders. 

1133 20th Street NW, Suite 300

Washington, DC 20036

​​​Buffkin/Baker

Buffkin / Baker is a partner-led executive search firm focusing on Healthcare, Higher Education, Private Equity, Digital Transformation, Technology, Media & Telecom, and Non-Profit. As leaders in their respective fields, each partner has over a decade of retained search experience. Combined, the firm's partners have more than 175 years of search experience and more than 220 years of industry/operating experience. Office locations include Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York, St. Simons Island, Washington, DC, and Winston-Salem with an affiliate office in London.

​10 Cadillac Dr, #190
Brentwood, TN 32027
United States

Cengage

Cengage is the education and technology company built for learners. The company serves the higher education, K-12, professional, library, and workforce training markets worldwide. Cengage creates learning experiences that build confidence and momentum toward the future students want. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA. Employees reside in nearly 40 countries with sales in approximately 165 countries and territories around the world.

200 Pier 4 Boulevard, Suite 400
​Boston, MA 02210​

Course Hero

 Course Hero is on a mission to help students graduate confident and prepared. The online learning platform now offers more than 100 million course-specific study resources created by and for students and educators, as well as 24/7 tutor help. More than 150,000 faculty across the U.S. and Canada use Course Hero to share their resources with the community, collaborate with other faculty, and hone new strategies for instruction. Every day, students, educators, and tutors on Course Hero help 30 million students make every study hour count.

2000 Seaport Blvd Floor 3
Redwood City, CA 94063

Credo

For more than 25 years, Credo has partnered with higher education leaders across critical areas of institutional strategy and operations. Keeping students always at the center, Credo's action-oriented, results-driven partnerships connect to people and culture as the most powerful vehicles to impact transformational student experiences. Informed by proprietary research on institutional thriving and propelled by a robust team of higher education experts, Credo complements your on-campus talent with external context, strategy, support, and accountability.​

940 Golf House Road W
Suite 200
Whitsett, NC 27377

Deloitte

​A recognized leader in the higher education space, Deloitte has solved complex problems with over 175 public and private higher education institutions nationwide. Deloitte’s higher education team has experienced professionals and industry leaders that turn ideas into impact for your institution.

30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Diversified Search Group

Consultants from Storbeck Search, Diversified Search, and Koya Partners form the Education Practice of The Diversified Search Group (DSG), a single firm comprising a portfolio of search firms focused on specialized market sectors. Founded by women, the three firms are recognized leaders in the areas of diversity and inclusion. The Diversified Search Group family of firms also includes BioQuest and Grant Cooper, with niches in life sciences and academic medicine.

2005 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 109103

EAB

EAB helps today's education leaders solve their biggest problems. We start b​y forging and finding best practices to address education's top challenges with research forums dedicated to presidents, provosts, chief business officers, and many other key academic and administrative leaders. Through these forums, we provide peer-tested research that answers education's most pressing issues. Then, we hardwire those insights into each organization with our technology and services: Enrollment Management, Student Success Management, and Growth and Academic Operations.

1920 East Parham Road
Richmond, VA 23228

Ellucian

Charting the digital future of higher education with cloud-ready technology solutions and services, Ellucian serves more than 2,700 customers and 20 million students in over 50 countries. To find out what’s next in higher education solutions and services, visit Ellucian at www.ellucian.com.

2003 Edmund Halley Drive
Reston, VA 20191​​

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Fidelity Investments

Fidelity Investments operates a brokerage firm, manages a large family of mutual funds, provides fund distribution and investment advice, retirement services, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance.

245 Summer
Boston, MA 02210

Gray Associates, Inc.

Gray Associates, Inc. is a strategy consulting firm focused on higher education. We help education clients develop fact-based institutional and marketing strategies that maximize outcomes for students, the school, and its constituencies. To support our client work, we have developed an industry-leading database that combines information on inquiry volumes, demographics, competition, and employment. Using this information and proprietary analytical techniques, we work with school leadership to develop institutional strategies, select programs, pick locations, and prepare curricula. 

355 Sudbury Road
Concord, MA 01742 

Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc.

We are a woman-owned executive search, consulting and training firm with a diverse recruiting and consulting team. We have extensive expertise and experience with executive search, consulting and training in education and nonprofit organizations. Jan Greenwood and Betty Asher, founders and partners of G/AandA, have deep roots in higher education, having both served as tenured professors and presidents of universities. Greenwood has been in the executive search business since 1992.

42 Business Centre Drive, Suite 206
Miramar Beach, FL 32550

Harris Search Associates

Harris Search Associates is a leading global executive search and board advisory consulting firm. Modeled after the first premier management-consulting firms, in 1997, we launched our practice solely focused on the recruitment of senior leadership to support the growth of higher education. Clients include the foremost universities, medical schools, academic medical centers, research institutes, national laboratories, and healthcare organizations driving global innovation and discovery.

4236 Tuller Road
Dublin, OH 43017

IES Abroad

Founded in 1950 and based in Chicago, IES Abroad is a leading not-for-profit study abroad organization that has provided study abroad and internship programs to more than 130,000 college students to date. We offer more than 130 programs throughout Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, and Latin America.

33 W Monroe Street, Suite 2300
Chicago, IL 60603​

Isaacson, Miller

Isaacson, Miller is a national retained search firm specializing in recruiting transformative leadership for mission-driven organizations. With the largest higher education executive search practice in the U.S., its searches have placed some of the most respected and successful presidents, chancellors, deans, department heads and administration professionals in a wide range of universities, colleges, and academic medical centers.

263 Summer Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02210

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Keeling & Associates

K&A is a higher education consulting firm; we work exclusively with colleges and universities, university systems, and higher education professional organizations. Our projects have a common purpose: to improve outcomes in higher education. We accomplish that purpose in different ways-by renewing vision and strategy; advancing innovation in academic programs; strengthening student support services; increasing institutional capacity through executive search services; improving organizational and operational effectiveness; increasing alignment and synergy in institutional governance. 

55 Harry Kemp Way
Provincetown, MA 02657

Lincoln Leadership

Lincoln Leadership is uniquely positioned to influence the organizations that push society forward. We acknowledge this privilege and commit to transcend diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and deliver leadership capable of expanding opportunities. We encourage leaders closest to the problem to advance meaningful solutions.

1025 S. Farragut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19143

National Student Clearinghouse

The mission of the National Student Clearinghouse is to serve the education and workforce communities and all learners with access to trusted data, related services, and insights. Our Vision is to be a premier resource in serving and supporting the opportunities created by lifelong learning. We are a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization and the leading provider of educational reporting, data exchange, verification, and research services.

2300 Dulles Station Blvd. Suite 220
Herndon, VA 20171

​NES Search Firm

NES, a national higher education search firm, focuses on recruitment and placement of enrollment professionals in admission, financial aid, andmarketing leadership roles. We align searches to strategically match the goals of each institution. Established in 2014 as Napier Executive Search, NES consists of seasoned enrollment professionals with considerable consultative experience. The mission of NES is to build on our national reach, demonstrate excellence in enrollment searches, and work with synergy as a team to provide results to institutions.

801 Hanover Road
DeLand, FL 32724

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Registry for College and University Presidents

Founded in 1992, the Registry is the "Gold Standard" interim leadership firm in higher education. The Registry has contracts with over 600 former college and university presidents and senior administrators, in over 49 states, all of whom have been selected for membership based upon nominations and pre-screening evaluations. Experience confirms that the Registry interim function increases the probability of success for the permanent president or senior administrator. Specialties: ADV, CAO, CEO, CFO, CIO, CS/PA, DEAN, GC, SPO, VP.

3 Centennial Drive
Peabody, MA 01960

Russell Reynolds Associates

Founded in 1969, Russell Reynolds Associates quickly became a predominant international leader in executive recruitment. We are a private firm with 46 offices and nearly 1,500 employees globally. In addition to recruiting exceptional candidates and managing a comprehensive, equitable search process, we become trusted advisors who help universities think through challenging leadership issues and build out their leadership teams. Our Higher Education Practice specializes in recruiting senior leaders to research universities, small colleges, and academic and scientific research institutions.

1700 New York Ave NW #400
Washington, DC 20006​

SAS Institute​

 At SAS, our mission is to align with education leaders and provide trusted analytics to transform education, drive student success, andbuild a global community of innovators. We work with higher education institutions across the country to leverage analytics and data-informed decision-making to benefit nearly every area of the campus community, from student success to academic research.

100 SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC 27513

Spelman Johnson

Spelman Johnson is a premier executive search firm serving higher education. Recruiting talented leaders, Spelman Johnson's success is strengthened by their deep, diverse relationships and their investment in the development of a leadership pipeline.

3 Chapman Avenue
Easthampton, MA 01027​

SPH Consulting Group

SPH Consulting Group assists college and university governing boards and executives as they consider major future-oriented institutional restructuring strategies. SPH Consulting Group is a team of experienced higher education experts who have managed to success the many major restructuring events institutions of higher education face in today’s climate. We help higher education leaders consider all strategic options for major institutional transformation, and when it is the right decision, we ensure the successful execution and implementation of the chosen strategy.

2461 Mountain Vista Drive
Vestavia Hills, AL 35243

Summit Search Solutions, Inc.

Summit is a boutique executive search firm dedicated to serving the higher education and non-profit sectors nationwide. In addition to offering traditional comprehensive search, Summit offers sourcing-based models where clients can select components of the search process at an hourly rate or fixed fee. All searches include strategies to identify and attract passive candidates and diverse candidates. Based in Asheville, NC, Summit has a team of experienced recruiting consultants in locations across the country including CA, OR, NY, KS, and NC.

P.O. Box 9824
Asheville, NC 28815

TIAA

The TIAA-CREF family of companies is a prominent financial services organization dedicated to providing lifetime financial security to those in the healthcare, academic, cultural, and research fields; for people whose work serves others.

730 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017​

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WittKieffer

For 50 years, WittKieffer has been the nation's leader in executive search for education and healthcare. WittKieffer specializes in senior-level executive search assignments for higher education, healthcare and not-for-profit organizations. Our mission is to identify outstanding leadership solutions for organizations committed to improving the quality of life.

2015 Spring Road, Suite 510
Oak Brook, IL 60523 ​