Executive Search Firm for Canadian Nonprofit Organizations
Find your next great leader to advance your cause.
We help leading Canadian nonprofits & charities find, hire and develop their next great leaders.

Guaranteed Fit
Find the Leader You Need
Partnership for Success
Your nonprofit shouldn’t have to compromise when searching for a highly qualified leader.
Nonprofit executive searches are commonly hindered by things like…
Limited Reach
Filling C-level roles in the social profit sector is very challenging. You are competing with other non-profit organizations for the same talent and the for-profit industry that can lure your top talent away.
Lack of Diversity
You’re challenged to find the best leadership talent and need a systematic process to court the ideal candidate who could provide your organization with the balanced leadership it needs.
The best candidates come from positive outreach, rather than passive responses to job postings. We make pro-active connections rather than relying on just the current pool of job seekers.
Limited Connections
At Cause Leadership we believe an exclusive retained executive search and recruitment partner works best for nonprofit organizations.
Unlike other search and recruitment firms that do not understand the charitable sector, we do because we work in the sector all the time. You get first-hand knowledge and relationships with the kind of candidates you are looking for.
Lack of Time & Experience
To advance your mission, you need the best available top candidates from a deep search and proactive recruitment, both of which take time and experience.
Unlike traditional channels, you get a wider and targeted reach beyond the standard search firm networks and in less time.
Why settle for less?
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Find the right leader you need to advance your cause, without compromise.

Everything rises and falls with great leadership. The wrong hire can be costly. For such an important role, your organization deserves to have a list of strong candidates to choose from.
When you work with Cause Leadership, you get a fully managed executive recruitment process that ends with finding the best-qualified leader to help advance your cause.
Guaranteed Fit
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Find the Leader You Need with Confidence
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Exclusive & Retained
Executive search and recruitment with a partner that works exclusively in the nonprofit sector is best for nonprofit organizations. You get first-hand knowledge and relationships with the kind of candidates you are looking for.
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Partnership for Success
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Our Recruitment Services
Fully Managed Executive Search
Your mission-driven organization doesn’t want to deal with the time-consuming old-school process of vetting dozens of unqualified candidates to uncover a few good matches.
Rather, you want a fully managed nonprofit leader search where you’ll get a highly calibrated shortlist representing the top candidates who meet your requirements and share the vision for advancing your cause.
Recruitment Marketing
For mission-driven organizations who want to supplement part of their search for a new executive hire with the marketing assistance of an experienced Canadian executive search firm.
This approach provides you with a pool of candidates to interview without the costs of a fully managed search.
When I originally reached out to Cause Leadership I was looking for some boutique support on a search I was about to undertake.
My time was quite limited as we were in the full throws of the pandemic and a large campaign, so I needed a search partner to work with me to share the work and make is easier to manage the search process.
I appreciate and value the partnership that Cause Leadership brought to our last search. We were able to work together to identify a stellar candidate who’s been a tremendous contributor since joining our organization.

Tania Little, CFRE
We were facing the retirement of an ED who had been with the organization for 20+ years, the entire time our organization had existed.
This presented us with considerable anxiety, as no doubt it would be a big change for our organization, but we also saw it as an exciting turning point. We would be entering a new chapter in the future of our organization, which also presented as an opportunity.
Cause Leadership seemed to be the right fit for us as an organization– their personal style, their understanding of our specific needs, and how the process needed to be adapted to meet that need. Dave who led the search, had experience working on a Board himself.

Janet Morse
Serving Canadian Non-Profits
Leaders who Care
We understand the value of mission-driven organizations. We make it easier to advance your mission by finding the executive leadership you need to succeed.
Results that Matter
For over 20 years, we’ve been placing leaders in their ideal organizations, with revenues ranging from $1M to over $400M in top-line donations.
How we help mission-driven
organizations find their
next great leader.
Consultation
We start building a relationship together, where we flesh out the details, experience, and character of your ideal leader.
Attraction
We do the heavy lifting, attracting the right candidate from our vast network of experienced, social-profit leaders.
Results

Ready to get started?

At Cause Leadership, we know that you are a purpose driven organization that depends on your leaders to continually advance your mission.

The problem is that filling C-level roles in the social profit sector is challenging. Not only are you competing with other non-profit organizations for the same talent, you are also competing with the for-profit sector who can lure your top talent away.
The recruitment process feels overwhelming and it’s made worse by the lack of proper tools and time to do the job well. The stakes are high and you fear missing (or losing) the ideal candidate who could provide your organization with the leadership that it needs.
We understand the value of mission-driven organizations, so we make it easy to advance your executive search by finding the leaders that you need to succeed.
For over 20 years, we’ve been helping prominent mission-driven organizations confidently find their next great leader.
Our process is simple. We start by building a relationship together, where we flesh out the details, experience, and character of your ideal leader.
Then we do the heavy lifting, attracting the right candidate from our vast network of experienced, social-profit leaders.
Finally, with a pool of 3-5 uniquely qualified candidates, you get the traction you need toward hiring the next great leader for your organization.
Book a Consultation and let’s explore what success looks like for you.
In the meantime, download our guide of the 10 points to consider before you begin your recruitment process.
Avoid making a costly mistake with your recruitment process and make sure that your organization will grow the positive impact that you have on the communities you serve.
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