Boyden – Global Executive Search Review

Trina Gordon of Boyden World Corp. Baroness Mary Goudie of House of Lords, U.K. Kristin Skogen Lund of Telenor ASA and moderator: Stephanie Mehta, Executive Editor and Co-chair, speaking at Breakfast Roundtable session: SHAKING UP THE BOARDROOM: CAN QUOTA (Photo credit: Fortune Live Media)

Boyden is a top executive search company, operating globally from its more than 70 offices worldwide. Founded in 1946, Boyden is the company which pioneered the field of executive search! Today, its areas of practice include financial services, healthcare and life sciences, technology, consumer and industrial. For many years, they have been able to successfully connect the best people – wherever they might be located – with only the best companies – in every market!


Their goal is to search, source, recruit, and deliver leadership talent on a global scale. That's the reason why is Boyden often considered the world’s only multicultural executive search firm. Boyden combines its global perspective with its local knowledge. That creates teams able to meet any requirement from the client!


Boyden serves a truly multicultural client base encompassing both mature markets and emerging economies, as well as developing markets around the globe. Their clients include transnational, multinational, and global companies. There are also entrepreneur-led organizations, small and medium sized enterprises, as well as not-for-profit organizations. The list of their representative clients is impressive: AIG, BARCLAYS, Bloomberg, JP Morgan Chase, Clear Channel, ATG, SGL Group, Cryo-Save, Mindteck, RICS, CRANE...


Boyden has a unique structure in place in order to realize the level of specialization needed for this purpose, so that it always can anticipate market changes, prepare for the future, and address talent issues. They are flexible as professionals and as an organization, aligned with their clients and their peers. Boyden is constantly addressing new business cycles, disruptive technologies and political shifts.


The president and CEO of Boyden, Trina Gordon, was named as one of the “50 Most Influential Headhunters in the World” in 2008 by BusinessWeek magazine. She was also cited in The New Career Makers — North America’s Top Executive Recruiters, a Harper business publication, and Road to CEO, an Adams Media publication. She has been featured on Nightly Business Report, a national television program, as well as several publications, including FORTUNE magazine, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, WallStreetJournal.com, and Directors Monthly.


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