Raising the Center of Gravity for Agencies
Boutique executive search for agencies and creative and marketing leadership teams. We help agency leaders elevate decision-making, culture, and long-term direction through transformational executive hires.
Recognized as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms.
We Don't Just Fill Roles—We Raise Trajectories
We help entrepreneurial agencies move from survival-based hiring to future-shaping leadership. Our placements catalyze change, elevate culture, and align leadership with your most ambitious vision.
We help entrepreneurs elevate their leadership, their culture, and their future by placing executives who do more than perform—they reshape what’s possible.
The Right Executive Can Change Everything
We specialize in strategic executive placements for creative and marketing agencies led by founders, second-generation leaders. Our deep experience in CEO, CGO, Presidents, and other C-suite roles gives us a unique lens: we see executive hiring not as a transaction, but as the inflection point where your agency’s future shifts.
F&C Executive Search helps agencies hire leaders who transform what is possible.
We partner with founders, CEOs, second-generation owners, and ESOP leadership teams to place leaders whose impact elevates culture and vision, strengthens operations, and changes the trajectory of an organization. Executive search at this level demands absolute confidentiality and discretion. We protect both.
“What one can be, one must be.”
Why Leadership Matters
Leadership determines the energy, clarity, and direction of an agency. A single executive can elevate culture, steady a team, and clarify the path ahead.
The right leader raises the center of gravity of the entire organization. In practical terms, that means better judgment at the top, stronger alignment across teams, and decisions that support long-term growth rather than short-term fixes.
Agency growth is not linear. Culture shifts. Business conditions evolve. The leader you choose now will influence every decision your organization makes.
How We Search
Leadership choices shift the gravity of an organization. We help agencies choose leaders who pull the future into focus.
We bring a team approach rooted in research, relationships, and disciplined search. But it’s our values—curiosity, grit, heart, and purpose—that guide every step of the process.
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Rooted in a deep understanding of agency models and leadership structures, our process uses insight, research, and pattern recognition to identify leaders who create lasting value.
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We focus on long-term outcomes, not short-term transactions. Every placement is designed to elevate performance, strengthen teams, and support meaningful organizational change.
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We combine rigor with empathy. Our approach blends process, discipline, and intuition to find leaders whose values, drive, and communication style align with your culture and future state.
Who We Serve
We work most closely with agency founders preparing for growth, CEOs seeking directional change, second-generation leaders shaping what comes next, marketing, creative, media, and PR specialty agencies, and ESOP teams evolving their leadership structure.
We support leadership hires across agency disciplines, including:
CEO, President, and Managing Director
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Growth Officer
CFO and COO
Chief Strategy Officer
Chief Creative Officer and Executive Creative Director
Media Leadership (EVP, SVP, VP)
Product, Digital, and Technology Leadership
Public Relations Executives
If you are exploring a leadership hire, you can contact us here to begin the conversation.
“I have seen how the right leader can lift an entire agency. That belief guides every search we take on.”
About F&C
A foundation built on clarity, curiosity, and generational expertise.
Founded by Jill Detwiler in 2010 and rooted in a legacy that began with her father, Jack Fristoe, F&C has always believed that the right leader can lift an entire agency.
Elevate What Comes Next
Our point of difference is focus: thousands of relationships, focused, deep pipelines, all centered on creative and marketing agencies. We don’t generalize, we specialize with precision, insight, and heart.
We go beyond what’s been done before, because we know you’re building what hasn’t been built yet.
Let’s change your trajectory. One transformative hire at a time.