External School Partner Search Services

A customized, streamlined, and outsourced procurement process for school leaders looking to engage an external school partner with ease.

School Partner Search Services

LeadTeam Partners’ School Partner Search Services allows independent school leaders to outsource their external partner searches to a procurement expert, all tailored to each school’s procurement process.

School leaders can rest easy knowing that LeadTeam Partners is:

  • Designing a search process that aligns with their school’s needs and stakeholders

  • Recommending a preliminary pool of external school partner candidates

  • Tapping into a network of experts in the independent school sector from firms large and small

  • Drafting and finalizing a request for proposal

  • Setting search timelines based on their school’s desired start date

  • Inviting external school partner candidates to submit proposals

  • Conducting preliminary interviews in partnership with their team

  • Making recommendations on finalists to their key decision makers 

  • Scheduling interviews and pitches

  • Serving as a liaison between their staff, Board, and external school partner candidates

Your Return on Investment

Clients who engage LeadTeam Partners to design and manage a customized search receive:

  • time savings in the procurement process, 

  • access to a curated community of experts who know schools inside and out, and

  • an advisor who has the backs of school leaders.

School Leader Wins

St. Anselm’s Abbey School

St. Anselm’s Abbey School in Washington, DC faced an important moment. The School needed to fill several critical leadership roles, including the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Development positions. 

After receiving over 100 resumes and spending countless hours in candidate conversations, school leaders decided they could not lead the search on their own. They also could not dedicate time to vetting search firms and turned to LeadTeam Partners instead. 

With clear criteria from St. Anselm’s leadership, LeadTeam Partners vetted 10 potential search firms, reviewed proposals, coordinated finalist calls, and analyzed the similarities and differences in their approaches, all in under three weeks. Upon completion of this work, St. Anselm’s received a vetted list of LeadTeam Partners’ top three recommended firms. 

The school went on to hold these three conversations, select a finalist, and seamlessly fill their leadership positions. What’s more, school leaders, especially the Headmaster, were able to protect their time for advancing the mission of St. Anselm’s and the students the school serves.