Hodges Partners

Executive search for hospitals, health systems and life sciences

Hodges Partners, based in Dallas, finds senior leaders for healthcare and life sciences organizations across the United States. It describes itself as results-driven and national in reach, and it states that it has made more than 600 placements. Its site is organized around a mission it calls transforming healthcare executive leadership, with sections on what it calls the Hodges difference and on diversity.

The roles it fills

The firm's work covers the top of an organization. It recruits presidents and chief executives, including at an academic medical college, and clinical leadership such as chief nursing officers, as well as finance leadership, where it has filled chief financial officer positions. Its work also covers leadership in academic medicine, where the firm says it has dealt with the process from both sides, as a source of candidates and as a search partner to institutions.

How a search is judged

According to the material on its site, a search is not only about experience and credentials. The firm looks at leadership style and cultural fit, so that a candidate suits the organization's culture and the needs of a critical role over the long term. It also describes approaching people who were not actively looking, with a conversation that matches their motivations to the nuances of an opportunity.

Speed and process

The firm points to searches that moved quickly, including a chief executive and dean search run in about four months and a nursing leadership search from engagement letter to signed offer in under three months. Searches of that kind involve a committee reviewing many candidates, then interviewing a short list, before the board meets the finalists.

Hospitals, health systems and universities as clients

Its searches are commissioned by hospital and health system boards, university medical schools and employers in the life sciences.

Hodges Partners is an executive search firm in Dallas that recruits senior leaders for healthcare and life sciences organisations across the United States. The firm is led by Jannah Hodges, and its website is built around testimonials from hospital, health system and university chiefs.

Products and services

• Executive search: finding and assessing candidates for senior posts.
• Chief executive searches: recruitment of presidents and CEOs, including for a medical college.
• Clinical leadership searches: roles such as chief nursing officer.
• Cultural fit assessment: weighing leadership style and organisational fit alongside experience.

Who it works with

Hospitals, health systems, academic medical institutions and life sciences employers.

Key facts

• Based in: Dallas, Texas
• Track record: over 600 placements, according to its own description
• Coverage: national