As a boutique executive search firm, SEBA doesn’t rely on a high-profile brand name to attract clients. Instead, we earn our business through the repeated success we achieve for our clients. Dedicated to providing a high level of insight and strategic counsel, our reputation is built on quality, not quantity—because when it comes to executive hires, our long-standing global clients know there’s no such thing as an acceptable failure rate.

SEBA’s exceptional performance is driven in part by three core principles which set us apart from conventional search firms.

Strategic Partnership Model

SEBA’s exclusive Strategic Partnership Model ensures that our services remain a strategic advantage for our clients—not a commodity. As part of our commitment to our clients, we choose to work with no more than two clients in any given industry sector. This unique approach engenders long-term relationships, trust, loyalty, and a deep understanding of our clients’ business. It also provides continuity and consistency for each search.

By becoming an integrated part of our client’s corporate culture, we better understand which candidates are ideal. Simultaneously, this commitment maximizes the talent pool for each client by eliminating off-limits restrictions. The results are clear. We achieve retention rates far above the norm—an average of 97 percent over five years—even in industry sectors characterized by high executive turnover.

Executive Ownership

There’s no such thing as a “routine” search; every assignment is unique and demands the close personal attention of seasoned executives from beginning to end. At SEBA, our clients work directly with our Partners and Principals who closely manage and execute every aspect of a search, from preliminary networking and candidate identification to final salary negotiations to facilitating a successful transition into the client company.

By putting our own best talent to work for our clients, we deliver uncommon accountability, professionalism, and confidentiality throughout the search. This deep, senior level engagement also ensures that Partners can readily provide up-to-date information and informed counsel whenever a client requires it.

SEBA’s principle of executive ownership spans the globe. From the Americas to Western Europe to Central Asia to the Pacific Rim, our overseas assignments are handled by the same team that leads domestic searches, leveraging on-the-ground networks and resources to identify and recruit the ideal candidate in any location.

Specialized Expertise for Rapid Results

SEBA’s industry and functional specialization, embodied in our focused network of top-tier executives, makes it possible for us to hit the ground running and deliver qualified candidates quickly and accurately. The successful candidate is typically introduced within the first four weeks of a search, and time to close averages four months.