Cooke & White have been an important business partner to JSI by helping us to build our top talent. They have made the extra effort to truly understand our needs and identified promising candidates to fill several of our key leadership roles.
Michael and the team at Cooke & White assembled an incredible pool of candidates for our CTO role. They took the time to understand our unique needs and brought a great group of technical leaders that fit our specific requirements to the table. I’d highly recommend Cooke & White for CTO searches!
— Trace Smith, Chief Executive Officer at Next Glass - Untappd
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Cooke and White has the most unique and effective solution in talent recruitment that I have experienced in 25 years of investing. They truly ‘know’ the candidates and tailor profiles to situations with a precision that is remarkable!
— Laurens Goff, Managing Partner at Stone-Goff Partners
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We have leveraged Cooke and White a few times now, and have been incredibly impressed with Michael and his team. They are a joy to work with and really take the time to understand what we are looking for. In both searches, the team surfaced a wide variety of both traditional and non-traditional candidates, and we ended up with multiple strong options thanks to his team's effort and tenacity.
— Aman Narang, Co-President, Co-Founder, COO & Director at Toast
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Rarely have I worked with a firm as customer-focused and competent as Cooke & White. They listened to our needs and found prospective hires who were equal in their competence and integrity. We have filled three executive positions with the Cooke & White team and look forward to placing many more.
— Gregg Beloff, Co-founder & Managing Director of Danforth Advisors
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Austin understands that a great talent strategy is a key enabler of company strategy. He can both design a robust talent strategy and effectively deliver on it. He continues to be a trusted advisor to me on executive recruiting, organization design, talent development, employee communication and change management. I couldn’t have been successful in my roles as BU President or COO without him. He truly is a game changer.
— Wenda Cebula, President and COO at edX
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Michael and his team spent the time necessary to get to know our company and our culture, and then tailored their search to deliver a truly stellar roster of candidates form-fitted to our specific needs. That small investment of time on their end saved a ton of time and effort on ours.
— Dan Haley, SVP, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer
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Michael successfully led two critical searches for my leadership team and I’m thrilled with the outcome. He was a true business partner throughout, putting in the time to understanding our story, listening to how I was trying to build my team and culture, while also pushing back appropriately. He was fully committed to getting a great outcome, and was an absolute pleasure to work with.
— Emma Barnes Brown, Chief People Officer, Agero
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My company partnered with Michael at both Sapient and Endeca. In the recruiting and human resources fields, Michael is a rare visionary with a real passion for his work. For all the lipservice recruiting gets, the function is too often relegated to a business service and a cost center. Michael views recruiting as talent acquisition and human resources as human capital management. He understands that both are the lifeblood of business. In addition to being a pragmatic problem solver, Michael is an enthusiastic, engaging, and charismatic leader, one of the few 'executives' I have met in our industry that merit the title.