Deerfield Associates Celebrates Starting Year 25!

This fall DEERFIELD ASSOCIATES is starting year 25! We’re taking this opportunity to say “thank you” for all of your support and encouragement. Yes, 25 years of dedicated search work!

At DEERFIELD ASSOCIATES, we are known for our strategic, proactive, and disciplined approach to solve complex hiring needs. Since starting the firm in 2001, we have successfully conducted and completed 600+ searches. We are a true national search firm working with 162 highly satisfied clients, recruiting and placing top tier professionals at the nation’s best colleges, universities, and independent schools, both boarding and day.

We take great pride that 92% of our clients in education have returned to us for additional search work. In some cases, repeat business from hiring clients has been significant: Yale University (27), Dartmouth College (14), The Taft School (9), Bowdoin College (9), The Spence School (7), Deerfield Academy (7), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (7), Milton Academy (6), The Nightingale-Bamford School (6), The Elisabeth Morrow School (6), Fairfield University (6), Amherst College (6) and Mount Holyoke College (6). Repeat business from hiring clients is the best measure of the highest-quality search work.

Please view our roster of eighty 80 searches completed 2021 – 2025.

Here is what our hiring clients and placed candidates say about us. Deerfield Associates Testimonials 2021 – 2025

Hunt Scanlon names DEERFIELD ASSOCIATES as one of the Top 50 Higher Education Search Firms

Over the past five years, DEERFIELD ASSOCIATES has continued to expand and has teamed up with 36 new clients, along with supporting institutions from our long-term and loyal client base.

We continue to focus on long-term relationships with established hiring clients and our deep talented candidate pool. Our search firm enjoys relationships collectively built over the years with heads of schools, college presidents and trustees. At the same time, we continue to adapt to a new, very complex business climate to hire the right talent for key leadership positions. Our ability to adapt to such changing needs in the marketplace, for both hiring clients and candidates, is essential to our core values.

In closing, I want to congratulate all of my professional colleagues at DEERFIELD ASSOCIATES for their perseverance, grit, and loyalty to our hiring client institutions and successful placements.

With sincere gratitude,

Doug Cooney
Executive Search Consultant