Education

Leaders Who Can Transform Learning

Education is in a pivotal moment. Colleges and universities are adapting to a new world that’s consumer-focused and digitally driven. This change requires executives who can lead the transformation with an eye toward tradition.

A Worldwide Network

DHR’s Education team is an executive search adviser to clients across higher education, K-12 systems and education-related organizations globally. Our practice serves education clients and their partnerships, affiliates and campuses around the world, and we have the network and access inside and outside of education to attract, assess and recruit diverse talent.

To support your needs, we build highly collaborative teams that include a formidable array of partners, including specialists in finance, law, technology, academic services, student services, health services and sports.

Inside of a college classroom where a professor lectures her students.

Personalized Service, Integrity & Confidentiality

Personalized service, integrity and confidentiality are at the core of who we are and what we do. We’re energetic and passionate about how education cultivates the mind, transforms learning and changes society.

Visionary Leadership for Advancing Education

DHR’s Education Practice serves leading educational organizations across the academic sector:

Non-Profit Education

  • Academic Medicine
  • K-12
  • Foundations/Philanthropy
  • Universities and Colleges

For-Profit Education

  • Education Technology
  • Higher Education
  • K-12

DHR works with search committees, hiring managers and campus and institutional leadership collaboratively and transparently, filling executive roles including:

  • Deans
  • Distance Learning
  • Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
  • Enrollment
  • Faculty
  • Institutional Research
  • Presidents/Chancellors
  • Provosts
  • Residential Life
  • Student Affairs
  • Alumni Relations
  • Communications
  • Development
  • Marketing and Public Relations
  • Center Directors and Institutes
  • Chief Financial and Operating Officers
  • Chiefs of Staff/Deputies
  • Facilities and Campus Security
  • Human Resources
  • Legal and Compliance
  • Senior Vice Presidents of Administration
  • Sports
  • Technology (Chief Technology Officers, Chief Security Officers and Chief Information Officers)
  • Vice Chancellors/Vice Presidents

Connect with Your Next Great Leader

Share your talent needs with us, and we will be in touch.

Education Consultants

50 +

Education Searches Completed Per Year

49 %

Diversity Placements

16 +

Education Consultants

86 %+

Retention Rate | > 3 years

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