Clients

We partner with CEOs, boards, investors, and management teams to accelerate organization performance. We are leadership and organization performance experts and trusted advisors who understand that our clients expect tangible and rapid results in today’s dynamic world. Our clients represent some of the most successful and demanding industry leaders across the globe.

Boards

We focus on optimizing how boards work with the CEO to deliver long-term success for the business. We partner with boards to effectively assess, develop, and transition CEO and C-level executive talent. In addition, we work closely with Boards on their own alignment, effectiveness and impact. Boards count on Summit to provide an objective, informed point of view on the management team’s capabilities to help execute the company’s strategy.

Private Equity Investors

We help increase investment returns by accelerating leadership and organization performance across the investment cycle. We assess and improve talent, management team, and organization capacity to deliver on the company’s investment thesis. We understand the sense of urgency required in value creation. Our PE sponsors trust Summit to operate as an objective catalyst of change with their portfolio companies.

CEO and Management Teams

CEOs appreciate our business focus, pragmatic approach, and leadership expertise to solve their most complex organization challenges. We provide practical yet rigorous talent solutions by deeply understanding their business and ensuring a holistic approach.  Management teams trust Summit to be invested in their challenges and needs.

Our clients

We are proud to have served Boards, Investors, CEOs and Senior Leaders in numerous industries, ranging from middle market to large-cap companies across the globe. A sample of our clients can be found below.

  • 2U
  • A+E Networks
  • Abt Associates
  • Accordion
  • Ally Lending
  • Berkshire Partners
  • BV Investment Partners
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Contentstack
  • Ellucian
  • FFL Partners
  • Fortitude RE
  • HCA Healthcare
  • Implus
  • Insight Partners
  • Ion
  • Jeld-Wen
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Kendra Scott
  • Krispy Kreme
  • Littlejohn & Co.
  • Maersk
  • Mars, Inc.
  • OneOncology, Inc.
  • ONEX Corporation
  • Paychex, Inc.
  • Pharmapacks
  • Renaissance Learning
  • Roche
  • Sealed Air
  • SPX Corporation
  • StoneCastle
  • Summit Partners
  • Sun Capital Partners
  • Sunrise Senior Living
  • Tommy John
  • TPG Capital
  • TriNetX
  • TTTech

100%

of clients

would recommend Summit to others.

95%

of clients

report improved executive team performance as a result of our work.

96%

of clients

report that our talent assessments were accurate and helpful in the hiring decision.

94%

of clients

report that our virtual team assessment and development consulting tools were very effective.

Summit takes a flexible approach and can customize their resources and processes to the given situation.”

Private Equity Partner

Summit is very invested in our company and trusted by our leadership team.”

Chief Executive Officer

Summit has the experience and wisdom we have confidence in, and their senior partners are always available for critical conversations.”

Private Equity Partner

Summit provides a credible, objective outside presence that is critical to influencing a leadership team.”

Chief Human Resource Officer

Summit is very pragmatic, which is critical in the Private Equity world.”

Private Equity Partner

Summit helped our executive team improve trust, decision making, and speed, which helped us increase our revenue growth, and ultimately our stock price rose over the past year.”

Chief Executive Officer

Summit challenges us and creates a safe environment for executives to self-reflect and try new approaches.”

Chief Human Resource Officer

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