Craig Stevens is a Managing Partner and Chairman (2021 to 2023) at Boyden. He possess expertise in executive management, management, leadership, start ups, consulting and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Craig is exceptional. I dealt with him consistently since his early days at KPMG and found that he is one of the few recruiters that never walked away from a search. As head of HR for two major financial institutions i found that that Craig was a quick study and was able to grasp our corporate culture much better than most. I would recommend him without qualification." and "It takes three things to be successful in business: a strong business concept, some money, and a great top team. Of these, the hardest to come by is a top team. Too many of us CEOs, do a half-hearted search on our own while we continue to be primarily focused on running the business, not building the team. We end up with whoever happens to be around and free of those our personal networks happen to yield. Hardly the systematic, comprehensive assault on the labor market one would expect from a high-performing organization and the results usually show it. That is, most of the time within a year the newbie is out and the drill starts again. The best CEOs know that professional search is the only way to go but also that retaining a professional search consultant is not a license to check-out until the search is over. It takes concentrated, coordinated, and continuous focused effort on to work with a top search consultant to get the results you need. In my 35 years of experience on both sides of the search equation (i.e., both hiring and being placed) with more than 20 search professionals, Craig Stevens has emerged to be in a class by himself and is now the one and only search professional that I count on to work with me shoulder-to-shoulder from launch to placement. We have worked together on a half-dozen searches over the past decade. His creative approach to research ensures that in addition to the usual suspects you will have some outstanding candidates that others overlook and that turn out to be the diamonds in the rough you need to build a top-rate inner circle. He takes the time and has the ability, bandwidth, temperament, experience, intelligence, patience, support, and emotional IQ to get to know and understand you, your business, your business situation, what you seek to accomplish, who you seek next to bring on next, and then to beat the bushes and attract A-players to build you a first-rate pipeline. Further, Craig has experience with management teams, investors and board members such that I do not hesitate to have him survey and brief my inner-circle, investors, and board members including those that would have most search professionals in way over their heads and quaking in their boots. Craig has organized his operation to be unencumbered by bureaucracy yet with the systems and support in place to net maximum productivity as he mounts and drives a campaign with unfettered access to the market of possible candidates. The result is that Craig consistently comes through with surprisingly good candidates who we are able to attract, retain, and then that help us thrive. If you seek to build a top team of A-players, I recommend without hesitation that you work with Craig Stevens to plan, drive, guide, and complete the effort."