Who We Are
Buffkin / Baker is a partner-led team of executive search professionals recruiting leaders who impact and transform organizations. We provide a high-touch, tailored search process based on deep sector expertise. Our team delivers outstanding outcomes for clients through professional candidate interactions and exceptional search execution.
Executive Search
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Our Areas of Practice
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Healthcare
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Non-Profit
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Entertainment & Media
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Digital
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Higher Education
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Private Equity
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Our Areas of Practice
At Buffkin / Baker, our work focuses on recruiting executive talent for healthcare, higher education, private equity, technology/media, digital transformation, and non-profit industries. We are truly a firm that is an inch wide and a mile deep in our practice area. Each of our partners has over 20 years of executive search experience and are leaders in their respective practice fields. They have the industry knowledge and understanding needed to provide our clients with the most qualified talent for their organization.
Our Healthcare Practice focuses on academic medicine, healthcare systems/hospitals, healthcare services, and technology. Our partner-led healthcare teams are specialized in the three different verticals we serve. Headquartered in Nashville, the “Silicon Valley” of healthcare, the practice is a pillar of the firm.
Leadership in the non-profit industry requires traditional management and strategic skills, plus a genuine passion for the mission. Buffkin / Baker has successfully worked with non-profit to match their needs and cultures with executive talent. That success, coupled with outstanding client service and a proven process, makes us the right choice to assist non-profits, big and small, in their quest for visionary leadership.
Technology, media, and telecommunications have become key influencers in driving change across multiple industries. We understand these changes are critical for today’s leaders as they reshape business models and strategies to fit the new landscape. Staying abreast of industry trends is a top priority in helping us give our clients the most value in finding the right talent. We have the experience needed to have unparalleled access to executive leadership that excels in technology, media, and telecommunications.
The media and technology worlds are converging towards omni-channel customer engagements, leading to new digital media ecosystems. Established companies need senior executive talents to enable transformation and disruption, and new digital enterprises need mature senior talents to enable the profitable scaling of their businesses. As a cornerstone of the firm, our Digital Transformation Practice partners with global brands and agencies to place senior-level leaders in the digital transformation roles.
Our Higher Education Practice is one of the most prominent in the country, having conducted more than 650 searches for universities and colleges. Our team has recently conducted searches for a number of leading liberal arts colleges, regional private and public colleges and universities, large research universities, HBCUs, AAU institutions, and athletic conferences.
Buffkin / Baker has been working with Private Equity and other institutional investors for over two decades. Our work is focused on building executive leadership teams for Private Equity portfolio companies to drive the growth required by investors. We understand the nuances of institutionally backed companies and the demands on their executive teams.
Why Choose Us
Our partners are experts within their practices, a secret to our success in finding the right talent for our clients. We have a deep industry knowledge and know what it takes to be successful. This understanding, partnered with our extensive network and proven process, allows us to effectively help our clients with their important hiring decisions.
Coupled with our extensive network and proven process, our partner-led team thoroughly evaluates the client’s company culture and specific needs, allowing us to quickly deliver outstanding leadership talent who is an ideal fit.
Our data-driven research focuses on diversity and is customized to meet your specialized requirements. Our cloud-based, mobile accessible LeadersFirst platform provides 24/7 transparency to the search process.
We are proud of our 99% completion rate, 100% retention rate after 1 year, and 92% retention rate after 3 years.
Testimonials
LeadersFirst Career Portal
As a retained, specialty boutique search firm leader, each partner in the firm has expertise in their respective fields and each has over a decade of retained search experience. Combined, our partners have over 200 years combined executive search experience and 210 years of operating experience with our partners. Our job as search professionals is to recruit leaders in Healthcare, Higher Education, Private Equity, Digital Transformation, Technology, Media & Telecom, Entertainment, and Non-Profit.
Panorama Leadership
Being part of the Panorama community allows us to learn best practices from some of the most elite firms across the globe. Panorama is a global community of over 400 leadership experts working together to promote a diverse perspective of leadership, embracing creative thinking and sharing our expertise and experience with each other to bring our clients the very best results.
News & Thought Leadership
We believe it is important to provide not only successful leaders to our clients, but also relevant and beneficial resources and information to the industries in which we operate. Our partners are experts in their fields, and we prioritize the leading of panels, organization of industry-specific events and presentations, authorship of relevant articles, and other such activities to help impact these industries and the world around us.
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Talk to Our Team
Contact our partner-led team of executive search professionals. We are a boutique recruitment firm connecting leading organizations with trusted professional candidates who have the experience to lead your vision.
From my first call with Roland Lundy of Buffkin / Baker, I gained a sense of confidence that he had my best interest at heart and desired for me to experience an excellent fit in my next nonprofit management leadership role. I developed a trust with him throughout the process to ask questions, share my honest thoughts and professional goals. He navigated the hiring process well by providing me timely communication and insightful feedback. I am extremely grateful and highly recommend Roland and the Buffkin / Baker team to nonprofit organizations seeking its next leader and current CEO's ready for their next leadership opportunity.
Linda Leathers, President of The Operation Andrew Group