GUIDING THE ADVISORS WHO SHAPE EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Elizabeth Street Partners is the leading North American executive search and strategic advisory boutique partnering with professional services and consulting businesses.
Elizabeth Street Partners works selectively with a handful of clients and specializes in building capability in the areas of executive search and leadership, talent, organizational, and cultural consulting.
It serves as trusted advisor to those who advise Boards of Directors and CEOs on these critical topics, with a proven track record of driving growth and transformation for the professional services firms it has partnered with.
About The Founder
Chris Duffy, Founding Partner of Elizabeth Street Partners, has advised a diverse range of professional services firms on how to build, scale, and take to market capabilities that enable them to better advise their Board and CEO clients on the leadership, talent, and organizational challenges that they face. He has successfully completed dozens of retained searches at Partner and Principal level in executive search and in areas of the wider consulting market, including leadership assessment and development, Board and CEO effectiveness, executive coaching, succession planning, culture change, employee engagement, organizational design and effectiveness, post-M&A integration, performance improvement, and change management.
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​Before incorporating Elizabeth Street Partners, he established and built the North American presence for a leading global professional services search boutique, relocating to New York City in 2013 with sole responsibility for the development of a client base in the U.S. market. He holds a Master of Science in African Studies from the University of Oxford.
Track Record
Elizabeth Street Partners has advised the leaders of some of the world's most prominent and successful professional services organizations, and completed retained executive searches for clients including:
World Class Strategy Consulting Businesses
Leadership & Organizational Advisory Boutiques
Human Capital Consulting Companies
Executive Search Firms
Private Equity Investors
It has developed an extensive track record of helping these businesses build leadership and talent advisory capabilities that create significant enterprise value both for the Board and CEO clients that they serve, and for their own organizations.
It works with professional services companies in the same way that they engage with their clients, as a strategic growth partner with a relentless focus on service and an unwavering commitment to integrity.