CS&A Sponsors ISACS 2023-24 Trustee Series


Bob Vitalo kicked off this yearlong series in August.
Read MoreCarney, Sandoe & Associates knows how important these roles are to the long-term health of every school. We are experts at identifying candidates whose skills and experience best align with each institution’s needs.
Our Consultants come from successful tenures as development and business professionals at colleges, universities, nonprofits, and independent schools. They leverage those experiences as recruiters and provide broad programmatic insight and personal hands-on experience throughout the entire search process and beyond.
Our talented development and finance Consultants engage in deep research into the financial history and needs of each school and then build every candidate pool from scratch. We know this is more challenging than spitting out names from a database, but as a consequence our approach yields deeper, more diverse candidate pools. Our approach is to look locally, nationally, and internationally for high-performing, mission-driven experts, drawing from the independent school community, higher education, the nonprofit sector, and even certain corporate and business sectors.
We pride ourselves in bringing valuable new perspectives and fresh candidates to clients. And because we have the benefit of CS&A’s enormous capacity, reputation, and reach, we are able to source broadly and strategically for talent and deliver robust pools of qualified candidates.
We worked with Greg Britton and Sara Shulman on the daunting task of finding the right successor for a monumentally effective (22-year) CFOO. From the start, they paired reassuring confidence with incisive questions that helped us hone our aspirations and focus our recruiting strategy. They presented a dozen varied candidates and supported me and our team as we narrowed the pool to three talented finalists. In addition to the obvious advantages of time saved and nets more broadly thrown, I appreciated Greg and Sara's candor about the ways that candidate personalities might or might not fit the culture of our team and community. They are perceptive conversationalists and honest brokers. Their reference checking was particularly helpful. This is our second leadership search with CS&A. Both processes were smooth, enlightening, successful...and even fun. We are grateful.Michael Ulku-Steiner See More Success Stories