Roberts & Ryan is a retained executive search firm with a national reach. Clients entrust us to land the transformative talent needed for their most crucial leadership positions.

A search firm right in your sweet spot

Roberts & Ryan strikes a perfect balance. We have the scale, industry breadth and cross-functional expertise to take on your most senior leadership recruitment needs; and we are structured to provide a boutique level of service, with hands-on partner involvement and accountability for fully transparent searches.

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Swift yet thorough

Our exhaustive search process converges on the best candidates with unmatched efficiency and precision. This rigor empowers clients to hire with confidence, cementing longstanding relationships.

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Different in the best way

We’re a gritty, hardworking team that gets the job done on time and on target. But it’s how we go about our business that sets us apart. We’re an open book. We tell it like it is. We live by the golden rule.

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Here for the long haul

Roberts & Ryan was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Chicago. By consistently delivering results, we have earned trust of a wonderful roster of clients and team of dedicated employees. Our performance has helped us stand out and thrive in a cluttered, shifting search industry, despite the ebb and flow of economic markets.

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