Our Approach

Every executive search is different but they all start with us listening to you, so that we clearly understand your business’ needs, goals and culture. Armed with a full appreciation of your organization’s core values we work collaboratively with your executive team and partners to define the ideal candidate. This upfront investment leads to a more focused and successful search no matter how unique the case.

Throughout the search process we keep you informed of our progress and involve you every step of the way. We delve deeply into our local and global networks to ensure no stone remains unturned for the perfect candidates. From first contact, every candidate is treated with the utmost respect and discretion. We also stay committed to providing every individual with fair and equitable consideration.

In the end, finding the right person for an executive position is a balance of experience, due diligence and intuition. Our overwhelming success rate is a testament to our ability to do just that, while effectively leveraging our global reach and innovative search techniques.

We engaged PFM to assist in our CEO search. From the very beginning we felt they listened to us and shaped the search based on our organization and needs. They assisted us in generating a profile that guided our entire search and was incredibly important as we moved through the process of evaluating candidates. PFM generated an excellent list of candidates that, with our input, was reduced to a manageable long list and then a short list. We are delighted with the outcome of our search and I would definitely use PFM again.

Glenn Ives
Board Chair, St Paul’s Foundation

I have such deep regard for all the big and small ways the PFM team have supported me through this process! It has been next level professional and personal!

Paul McKenzie
Incoming Superintendent of Schools, qathet School District

PFM made the process easy, efficient and very effective. Most importantly, the PFM team found us an excellent CEO for JABC!

Paul Geyer
Chief Executive Officer, Nimbus Synergies

I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude for all your assistance and support during the interview process. Furthermore, I would like to seize this opportunity to tell you that my interaction with you and the team at PFM has been truly exceptional throughout the recruitment, interview, and final decision stages. Your team embodies magnificence, trustworthiness, and sincerity, demonstrating genuine care in keeping candidates well-informed throughout the process. Your prompt responses to emails have also been greatly appreciated. Working with you has been an absolute pleasure, and I sincerely hope that this experience will not be the last.

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The Board of Parkinson Society of British Columbia retained PFM Executive Search to replace our retiring Chief Executive Officer.  The search delivery team from PFM did an amazing job of engaging with our key stakeholders to fully understand the organization’s challenges and the important competencies that we were seeking in the next CEO. They sourced a diverse group of candidates and facilitated a professional and thorough selection process that resulted in a fabulous new leader joining our organization. We are thrilled with the outcome and felt completely supported all along the way.

Andrew Davenport
Board Chair, Parkinson Society British Columbia

Engaging PFM Executive Search to recruit my successor was one of our best moves in recent years. Each of your team members are professional, you know the business extremely well, your guidance was outstanding, and you were very generous with your time. Never did we feel rushed in making decisions or hesitate in placing “one more call to you” for advice. We here at Durwest are heading into this next chapter with confidence that our new President will maintain the reputation that our company has built and will take us to the next level. Thank you and certainly where the opportunity presents itself, we will be recommending your firm!

Darcy Kray
Principal, Durwest Construction

The Credit Counselling Society engaged PFM to search for a successor to our founding CEO. PFM’s approach was very thorough, from the initial outreach, to the screening and progress reports, and the final reference checks. We were impressed with the quality of candidates presented at each stage of the process, and appreciated their hands on partnership approach to a most critical decision for our organization”

Jennifer Sondergaard
Board Member, Credit Counselling Society

New Clients

We’re always on the look out for new clients who share our values. To begin a new executive search, feel free to call us directly or simply submit a request for proposal below.

Request for proposal