Build your best team with Colleague executive search.

 Meet Colleague. We're a NYC and West Coast-based executive search firm dedicated to your business' success: with your customers, stakeholders, shareholders, and employees. We build teams of transformational mid-level and senior leaders who are equipped to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. We quickly understand your priorities and culture, learning your areas of opportunity and your pain points. We'll dig deep to find the right candidates — whether they're on the lookout for new opportunities, or not, yet! — to help you tackle those challenges head-on.

**Marketing, Advertising & Communications**

Game-changing marketing, advertising, and comms professionals are creative dot-connectors with the ability to develop and drive campaigns and platforms that engage fans and stakeholders, enhance consideration and deliver unusually high ROI. They are students of media, politics, culture and business, artfully inserting their clients into the fast-changing cultural conversation.
**Let Colleague help as you seek best-in-class leaders in:**
Public and Media Relations
Marketing and Advertising Account Services
Digital Marketing and Advertising
Brand Strategy
Creative and Copywriting
Design
Content Creation
Brand Ambassadors and Independent Producers

**Water & Power Utilities, Transportation, Parks, Local Government, & Nonprofit Management**

Our deep bench of government, public authority, and nonprofit executives combine policy expertise, creative strategy and aggressive project management to develop and execute campaigns that drive outcomes, shift public perception and cut through regulatory red tape. Top of mind to these leaders is capacity-building, gaining buy-in from the public and their Boards, effectively managing public resources, and, for nonprofit leaders, creative fundraising and donor relations. They ensure that priority projects see the light of day, and have the greatest possible impact.
**Our executives are leaders in:**
Government Agency and Public Utility Management: Commissioners, General Managers, Directors and other senior leaders
City Managers, Supervisors, their deputies, and other executives who answer to City and Town Councils
Nonprofit and NGO governance - Executive Directors, CEOs, Presidents, CFOs, COOs, and their deputies
Infrastructure leaders - engineers, planners, and project managers
Fundraising and donor relations
Communications and Media Relations
Lobbying and Advocacy
Campaign Strategy and Execution

colleague (1).png — **Business Services**

Our portfolio of seasoned business services professionals form the foundation of your business. With excellent judgement and a keen eye for detail, they ensure smooth day-to-day operations and keep current on the financial, administrative and operational trends that will distinguish your business from competitors, promoting talent retention, satisfaction, and overall profitability.
**Let us help you onboard the best in:**
Accounting and Finance
Human Resources
Talent Management and Recruiting
Business Affairs
Operations and Logistics
C-suite Executive Assistance
Chiefs of Staff

Our Leadership

Nina Habib

FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL
Nina Habib, Colleague’s founder and principal, is a former communications executive for the City of New York and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. After handling crisis communications with the media and the public for many years, she transitioned to talent acquisition for organizations and agencies, seeking out qualities in candidates that reflected what she knew worked in the world of media communications - hard work, fast thinking, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for truth and excellence. Nina and her team believe that essential to building a top performing team is building a diverse one, and so inclusion is top of mind for every project we undertake.
Nina is a Queens, NYC native. She attended Hunter College High School, a public magnet school in Manhattan, and graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University with a degree in Political Science. She currently lives in New York City with her husband and a Cairn terrier, and spends time on the West Coast as often as she can.