Elevation Partners Information

Elevation Partners is an executive search and leadership advisory firm. We help boards, CEOs, and investors solve their top talent and strategic challenges, from finding the right leaders to building the strategy, plans, and teams needed to succeed. Two decades of relationships across energy, banking, and private capital give us reach into leaders who are rarely active on the market and often before a search is formally opened. That depth is where we started. It is not where we stop. We work with private equity portfolio companies, family-run businesses, and financial institutions navigating growth, ownership change, and leadership transitions, wherever the stakes are high enough that a wrong hire is expensive. Our leadership advisory practice, run by an ex-Mckinsey practice leader, works directly with CEOs and executive teams on their top strategic and leadership challenges, from developing a bold ambition for the future of the company to helping a top team realize its full potential. The work is forward-looking: getting clear on what’s actually possible, building the strategic roadmap to get there, leading the organization through the transformation that follows, and equipping the leaders with what it takes to execute on the vision. The result is measurable: stronger performance, a healthier organization, and leadership that can sustain both long after the engagement ends. Three things shape how we work. We act as partners, not vendors, combining search and advisory to drive both performance and organizational health. We reach people through relationships, not databases. And we give straight counsel every time, including when the answer is one a client doesn't want to hear. Elevation Partners is based in Houston and led by Peter Wessel, Alex Papo, and Whit Albrecht.