Defining the Best in Executive Search
Executive talent drives organizational success, so every hiring decision you make is critical to collective performance.

The search for talent - finding the ideal candidate and ensuring a perfect fit - is both an art and a science. It integrates the latest search methods, assessment technologies, online tracking tools and international databases. And combines the experience, wisdom and industry knowledge of specialized consultants.

This is how StoneWood Group defines excellence in executive search, and we are proud to have built exceptional client relationships on the strength of our services. Our consultants look forward to finding the very best leaders for your organization.
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The Five Mistakes Companies Make When Hiring September 1, 2010
It was all coming together for the young start-up: innovative technology, successful customer trials, an emerging market, and now a fresh round of venture funding tucked safely in the bank. Next up was hiring a high-powered sales executive to unleash the firm into the market. It was agreed they would settle for nothing less than the ‘best of the best', someone deep in their markets, with a rolodex of contacts and a track record of building successful sales organizations.
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Five Rules for Working in Family Businesses March 2, 2010
Family businesses have been employers of choice for generations of executives. They are seen as more benevolent, personal, stable and loyal than the faceless, soul-less entities that serve as their corporate or public-sector alternatives.
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The Transition Master July 16, 2009
An Interview with Robert Glegg, CEO of 2Source Manufacturing. Robert Glegg founded Glegg Water Conditioning, Inc. in 1978. Over the next two decades he built the Guelph, Ontario-based water treatment firm to a $150mm per year powerhouse before selling it to General Electric in 1999.
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Never Ever Quit! June 28, 2009
An Interview with Castek Founders Fay and Yung Wu - Castek Software was founded in 1990 by siblings Yung and Fay Wu, along with a third partner who exited the business in 1999. Initially funded with $60,000 in credit card debt, the partners nurtured the firm into a successful and profitable international enterprise software company, with revenues approaching $40mm, and double that in committed order backlog. The founders risked it all and raised $70mm over three major financing rounds in an effort to become the leading insurance software vendor in the market.
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An Abject Failure in Due Diligence and Judgment August 10, 2010
There are few shortcuts when it comes to hiring senior-level executive talent. And when firms are not careful, the price they pay can be exorbitant. Consider the true story of a company that paid a big price.
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One Reason Interviewing Candidates is So Difficult July 13, 2010
I was browsing in my local bookstore on the weekend when I came upon a small book titled ‘Toughest Interview Questions'. Always interested in this subject I quickly leafed through it and put it in the pile to buy.