Ferguson Partners

Ferguson Partners is a professional services firm that recruits executives and board members and advises on compensation, leadership and management. Its clients are concentrated in real estate and real assets, with further depth in hospitality and leisure, infrastructure, engineering and construction, and healthcare and senior housing.

The firm works across four business lines. Executive and board search covers C-suite, other senior business leaders and director seats. Compensation consulting covers benchmarking, executive and board pay structures, incentive plan design, proxy-related services, shareholder engagement support, compensation risk assessments and transaction-related advisory. Leadership consulting covers executive assessment and coaching, 360-degree stakeholder feedback, CEO and senior executive succession planning, and team effectiveness. Management consulting covers strategy and market positioning, organizational design and role definition.

Ferguson Partners has been in business since its founding in 1989 and describes itself as independent and employee-owned. It has offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. Its recruitment practice conducts in excess of 200 searches globally each year, and its compensation practice completes more than 250 projects per year, working with more public REITs than any other compensation consulting firm by its own account.

Fees are not published, so ask how search and consulting engagements are billed. The work described is senior hiring and organizational advisory, not property-level or junior recruiting.