Higher Education & Academic Leadership Search

The education landscape is evolving rapidly and recent events have further amplified and accelerated change. We find the right candidates by assessing all areas of fit – culture, performance, leadership, and team.

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AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent

AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent

Artificial intelligence has become a central force reshaping how organisations operate, innovate, and nurture talent. For senior executives, the question is not simply how to adopt AI, but how to integrate it in ways that genuinely enhance culture, collaboration, and...

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With new and emerging technologies, remote learning, heightened focus on diversity, and internationalization, educational institutions are facing unprecedented change. Facing increased competition for students and faculty combined with fiscal constraints, today’s senior academic leaders across school, higher education and universities are being challenged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and collaborate globally.

Bedford Group Transearch knows today’s academic leaders need to demonstrate the necessary thought leadership and agility needed to lead change, deliver academic value and meet student needs. With extensive experience partnering with search committees, Bedford Group brings a world-class, robust executive search process and proprietary leadership assessment tools which enables us to identify and recruit these critical, forward thinking academic leaders that are capable of tackling these challenges.

Bedford Group’s internationally recognized process involves finding the best candidates by comparatively assessing how well they will ‘fit’ with your institution based on culture, performance, leadership and team. This empowers and ensures that search committees choose not merely the best candidates, but the RIGHT leaders.

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AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent

AI, Culture, and the Future of Talent

Artificial intelligence has become a central force reshaping how organisations operate, innovate, and nurture talent. For senior executives, the question is not simply how to adopt AI, but how to integrate it in ways that genuinely enhance culture, collaboration, and...

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More Than Machines: Human Leadership in the Tech Sector

More Than Machines: Human Leadership in the Tech Sector

In today’s hyper-connected, innovation-fuelled world, change is no longer predictable or incremental. It arrives in waves — sudden, often jarring, and rarely linear. For senior leaders across the technology sector, the new challenge isn’t just about managing...

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