Our Principles for Activating Your Values
To thrive today, organizations must navigate change with both intention and agility. Your mission is your North Star. It’s ours as well.
We believe that an executive search is an opportunity to activate, amplify, and strengthen your organizational values. A mission- and values-aligned executive search process paves the way for everyone to get involved in accelerating the forward momentum of their organizations.
As mission-driven organizations adapt to profound transformations while competing for talent in increasingly fluid hiring markets, it is critical that their executive search and talent engagement strategies drive results.
Your mission, vision, and values are the ingredients for attracting, engaging, and maximizing the potential of candidates who will move you forward. Working together, we will bake them into a search strategy and end-to-end recruitment experience that ensures the success of your organization and your new leader.
Principles
Responsibility
A recruitment process grounded in responsibility ensures excellence, integrity, and accountability at every stage.
Responsibility means doing the hard work: conducting rigorous assessments, asking the right questions, and ensuring that every search process is thorough, thoughtful, and balanced. Our clients trust us to guide them through pivotal decisions, and candidates rely on us to represent them with honesty and care. That is why we lead searches with precision, transparency, and a deep sense of duty—because finding the right leader is more than filling a role; results-driven executive search stems from a recognition that the decisions made today shape the future success of organizations, leaders, and the communities they serve.
Respect
A recruitment process grounded in respect leads to stronger, more effective leadership by fostering trust, transparency, and shared commitments between organizations and candidates.
When we integrate these principles into an executive recruiting strategy, we help organizations strengthen the internal bonds that structure the workplace so they can maximize their impact in the world. Trust and authenticity convey the organization’s respect for candidates, staff, and community stakeholders. By being transparent with candidates and seeking meaningful input from staff and stakeholders, we help our clients conduct searches that invite honest conversation, foster accountability, and ensure every candidate—whether selected or not—feels valued.
Reciprocity
A recruitment process grounded in reciprocity attracts and retains the right talent by creating a dynamic exchange where both organizations and candidates engage openly, assess alignment, and build the foundation for a successful, mission-driven partnership.
When organizations acknowledge the reciprocal nature of a search and embrace the opportunity to address candidates’ inquiries, they strengthen their ability to compete for top talent. Mission-driven leaders today seek workplaces where values are lived, not just stated. To gauge values alignment, candidates do their own extensive research, contact staff and stakeholders, and “interview” hiring organizations in return. We create structures for this open dialogue to occur, all the while maintaining our focus on enabling hiring organizations and candidates to make honest assessments and decisive choices.
Relationships
A recruitment process grounded in relationships builds the shared purpose necessary for leaders to thrive, organizations to grow, and missions to advance with lasting impact.
At Lindauer, our relationships shape all of our other values. The strength of these relationships is what transforms an executive search into a shared commitment to advancing a mission. We listen deeply, engage openly, and work collaboratively to shape a search that reflects the unique culture and mission of each organization. A search done well fosters leadership that is rooted in accountability and mutual growth. By co-creating a search process that is thoughtful, rigorous, and aligned with core values, we build the groundwork for sustained, meaningful change.
Maximize the Value of Your Executive Search
The executive search process is not just a means of filling a vacancy but a vehicle for advancing organizational values and aspirations.
By infusing your values into every stage of recruitment, you can cultivate a culture that not only attracts top talent but also fosters collective team resilience and growth. Underlying this entire process is the idea that recruitment is a transformative opportunity—one that has the power to shape the very fabric of organizations.