Who we place
Why boards and PE partners choose us
- We reach the leaders who aren't looking. The best executive for your seat is running someone else's right now. We bring them to you, confidentially.
- A senior specialist runs your search. Your seat is handled by a senior consultant who focuses on exactly this specialty, under our US healthcare Sector Head. Not a junior associate and a database.
- Healthcare is all we do. We know the difference between a clinician with a title and a leader who can run a P&L and a medical staff.
- Retained means all-in. We commit the full team to one search and stay until the right person signs. Most of ours close in 30 to 90 days.
- A global bench behind a local search. ISG runs in 50-plus countries with 1,200-plus partners, so no leader is out of reach.
What an addiction-treatment executive search really demands
- Multi-site addiction-treatment operations
- Joint Commission and CARF accreditation command
- SAMHSA and state regulatory compliance
- Clinical quality and outcomes alongside census growth and referral development
- Commercial and government reimbursement fluency
- M&A integration, de novo development, and sponsor-backed value creation
Representative engagements
Representative, anonymized examples. Details and locations changed to protect client and candidate confidentiality.
- A distressed, multi-site substance-use operator was losing money and momentum. We placed a turnaround CEO in the Southeast who returned the programs to profitability.
- A private-equity-backed addiction-treatment platform was scaling fast and short on leadership. We placed the clinical and operating team to match, alongside the operating partners.
- An expanding treatment network needed medical and clinical leadership to keep pace. We found and placed it.
Frequently asked questions
How long does a substance-use executive search take?
A retained search typically runs 30 to 90 days, faster for interim leadership when a program needs stability quickly.
Do you cover PE-backed treatment platforms?
Yes. We partner with operating partners and boards to build and strengthen C-suites across addiction-treatment portfolios.
Can you run turnaround leadership?
Yes. A large part of this work is placing leaders who can stabilize and turn around distressed, multi-site treatment operations.
Meet your search partner
Lee Fossey leads the US Healthcare Executive Search practice for ISG Americas, with a team of senior consultants each focused on a specialty, so your search is run by someone who lives in that corner of the market. Across nearly three decades in search, the practice has helped hospitals, health systems, and private-equity-backed platforms place the leaders who change their trajectory, and on the global ISG platform that reach extends to more than 50 countries. Lee would rather have one honest conversation about your search than send you a proposal.
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Every week a leadership seat sits empty, it costs you momentum, money, and the board's confidence. One confidential call, and you will know quickly whether we are the firm for your search.
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