by Max Snyder | Aug 26, 2026 | Search Partner Evaluation
Executive headhunters can feel like an expensive go-between, or they can show up like a steady extension of your leadership team. In our experience at Sonar Partners, the difference is rarely the firm’s logo or the deck. It’s what you share upfront, how candid you are... 
by Max Snyder | Aug 24, 2026 | Role-Specific Playbooks
Executive recruiters Chicago are easy to find. Choosing the right one is the hard part, especially when you are hiring a CEO, CFO, CHRO, or General Counsel and the stakes are not theoretical. A mis-hire shows up as stalled priorities, messy decision-making, and a... 
by Max Snyder | Aug 18, 2026 | Search Partner Evaluation
Executive recruiting firms can look the same on a website until you are living through a search and realize you are getting noise instead of signal. One week you are optimistic. The next week you are staring at a stack of resumes thinking, “Do any of these people... 
by Max Snyder | Aug 7, 2026 | Assessment & Onboarding
Executive culture fit is the thing you do not think you are hiring for until it is the thing that breaks the hire. You can bring in a leader with the right logos on their résumé and still watch priorities stall, trust thin out, and the team quietly brace for another... 
by Max Snyder | Aug 4, 2026 | Compensation & Incentives
Executive compensation confidentiality is the detail that can quietly make or break a confidential executive search. You might be planning a leadership change before it’s public, running board & succession planning in parallel with fundraising, or hiring a new...