Heidrick & Struggles Careers, Benefits, Review

Diversity and inclusion are not just words at Heidrick & Struggles. D&I is embedded in everything we do, from executive-level searches and culture change services to how we operate within our own firm. It’s evident in our collaborative approach, our connections to diverse leaders who can excel in senior roles in every industry, and our partnership with organizations that support progress in diversity and inclusion around the world.

In a marketplace that connects across cultures and continents, access to a diverse workforce is essential. We recognize our diversity as an employer strengthens our ability to bring a full range of perspectives to our clients. Our workforce reflects those we serve at all levels of the organization.

WE CREATE. We create a culture of inclusion where everyone is valued and respected. We create a culture that embraces differences and encourages authenticity. We create innovation by maximizing the contributions of our diverse populations. We offer services to our clients to help them do the same.

WE INVEST. We invest in the advancement, experience and success of diverse talent within our organization. We invest in leaders both internally and externally who are inclusive and empathetic and champion diversity. We invest in our communities, specifically targeting those groups who have been historically underrepresented and disadvantaged.

WE BUILD. We build talent pipelines for our clients and ourselves that intentionally target and develop diverse talent. We build diverse and inclusive teams to best represent our clients and their interests. We build innovative solutions to enhance the success of diverse individuals. We build quantifiable measures that define and track diversity statistics to create accountability.

An inclusive culture where every individual is valued, respected, and supported expands opportunities for everyone to achieve their potential. At Heidrick & Struggles, affinity groups for women, professionals of color, and LGBTQ are giving people a chance to share experiences, mentor, advocate, and engage internally as well as with external networks. Our regional diversity councils are charged with identifying critical issues on a local level and creating solutions tailored to each challenge and culture.

Women's Inclusion Network

Providing education tools and resources, such as mentors or coaches, to allow women to navigate careers and reach their full potential.

Professionals of Color

Addressing cultural challenges faced in the everyday work environment for employees of color, while serving as a resource for mentorship and development.

Ethnic Diversity Engagement Network

Like-minded individuals who believe ethnic diversity is to be celebrated, supported, and lived within our European network.

Pride@Heidrick

A network for the firm’s LGBTQ employees and allies to advance and transform inclusion, visibility, education, and leadership for LGBTQ people and issues, as well as to demonstrate our commitment to proudly working with diverse candidates and clients to provide an enhanced perspective on the value LGBTQ identity brings to leadership and business.

 Honor Equality and Inclusion for Disability

HEID was founded to support the needs of current and future employees with disabilities and their allies. Our mission is to help Heidrick & Struggles achieve its collective goal of being a fully inclusive work environment where all employees are able to achieve their professional aspirations.

Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of senior-level executive search, culture shaping, and leadership consulting services. We serve more than 70% of the Fortune 1000, with clients in virtually every industry and sector around the globe.

Across all our offerings, we employ data-driven methodologies honed over decades of engagements with the world’s leading organizations. Our insights enable clients to find the world’s best leaders, build diverse, inclusive cultures, and transform their teams to achieve new levels of performance.

Our global network of search professionals and leadership consultants are guided by five primary values serving as the firm's foundation. These five values build on the principles that have guided the actions of the people of Heidrick & Struggles for more than 60 years. They have led us to success, earning the respect of both our peers in the industry and leaders of the organizations we serve. These values will continue to be at the core of everything we do to help our clients build the best leadership teams in the world.

Respect and value each individual

Grow with our clients

Win as one firm

Always act with integrity

Own the results

Diversity and inclusion are not just words at Heidrick & Struggles. D&I is embedded in everything we do, from executive-level searches and culture change services to how we operate within our own firm. It’s evident in our collaborative approach, our connections to diverse leaders who can excel in senior roles in every industry, and our partnership with organizations that support progress in diversity and inclusion around the world.

In a marketplace that connects across cultures and continents, access to a diverse workforce is essential. We recognize our diversity as an employer strengthens our ability to bring a full range of perspectives to our clients. Our workforce reflects those we serve at all levels of the organization.

WE CREATE. We create a culture of inclusion where everyone is valued and respected. We create a culture that embraces differences and encourages authenticity. We create innovation by maximizing the contributions of our diverse populations. We offer services to our clients to help them do the same.

WE INVEST. We invest in the advancement, experience and success of diverse talent within our organization. We invest in leaders both internally and externally who are inclusive and empathetic and champion diversity. We invest in our communities, specifically targeting those groups who have been historically underrepresented and disadvantaged.

WE BUILD. We build talent pipelines for our clients and ourselves that intentionally target and develop diverse talent. We build diverse and inclusive teams to best represent our clients and their interests. We build innovative solutions to enhance the success of diverse individuals. We build quantifiable measures that define and track diversity statistics to create accountability.

An inclusive culture where every individual is valued, respected, and supported expands opportunities for everyone to achieve their potential. At Heidrick & Struggles, affinity groups for women, professionals of color, and LGBTQ are giving people a chance to share experiences, mentor, advocate, and engage internally as well as with external networks. Our regional diversity councils are charged with identifying critical issues on a local level and creating solutions tailored to each challenge and culture.

• Women's Inclusion Network
  Providing education tools and resources, such as mentors or coaches, to allow women to navigate careers and reach their full potential.
• Professionals of Color
  Addressing cultural challenges faced in the everyday work environment for employees of color, while serving as a resource for mentorship and development.
•  Ethnic Diversity Engagement Network
  Like-minded individuals who believe ethnic diversity is to be celebrated, supported, and lived within our European network.
• Pride@Heidrick
  A network for the firm’s LGBTQ employees and allies to advance and transform inclusion, visibility, education, and leadership for LGBTQ people and issues, as well as to demonstrate our commitment to proudly working with diverse candidates and clients to provide an enhanced perspective on the value LGBTQ identity brings to leadership and business.
• Honor Equality and Inclusion for Disability
  HEID was founded to support the needs of current and future employees with disabilities and their allies. Our mission is to help Heidrick & Struggles achieve its collective goal of being a fully inclusive work environment where all employees are able to achieve their professional aspirations.

Our full-time employees in the U.S. are eligible to participate in medical, prescription, dental, and vision benefits, including options with telemedicine. We offer Flexible Spending Accounts to help our employees reduce their taxable income while paying for expenses such as co-pays, deductibles, orthodontia, over-the-counter medicines, and more. We provide employees with basic life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and supplemental life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage. Critical illness, long-term care, and hospital indemnity insurance are also available voluntarily. Our 401(k) Profit Sharing and Retirement Plan provides a generous dollar-for-dollar company match up to the greater of $6,000 or 6% of eligible compensation. As part of our benefits offering, employees also can opt into a legal plan, commuter benefits, and pet insurance. All employees have access to an employee discount program and to membership in Care@Work, which includes subsidized adult, child, and pet backup care as well as access to the Care@Work platform. We offer generous paid time off and wellness programs like Gympass and EAP, which focus on physical and emotional, social, and financial wellbeing. Some of these benefits are also provided globally and we provide competitive, equivalent benefits in each of the markets where we operate.

Executive Search firm Heidrick & Struggles’ growth demands that we attract exceptional people. Managing talent isn’t just our business. It’s our passion. If you share that passion, Heidrick & Struggles is the place to start or grow your career.

WE HELP OUR CLIENTS CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE LEADERSHIP TEAM AT A TIME®

Founded in 1953, Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of senior-level Executive Search, Leadership Consulting and Culture Shaping services. In our more than 60 year history, we have conducted some of the most high profile C-suite and board-level searches in the world. Today, we work with client organizations across 30 countries to build and strengthen leadership teams in every industry.

Managing talent isn’t just our business. It’s our passion. If you share that passion, Heidrick & Struggles is the place to start or grow your career.

We look for top candidates who have the aptitude to partner with the most innovative and influential leaders in the world to drive and cultivate change. This takes ambition, resilience, intelligence, and dedication. Do you have what it takes to join the best team in the business?