Economic Policy Institute President
Physicians for Human Rights Executive Director
Colorado Behavioral Health Commissioner
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Executive Director
Vermont Law School President
Greenpeace Executive Director
Public Citizen President
MetroWest Health Foundation CEO
Planned Parenthood Federation of America President
American Friends Service Committee Executive Director
Free the Slaves Executive Director
Nonprofit Quarterly Editor in Chief & Publisher
Home for Little Wanderers Executive Director
Washington State University President & Provost
Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute Executive Director & C Team
Human Rights Watch Executive Director
Indian Law Resource Center Executive Director
Democracy North Carolina Executive Director
Gay Men's Health Crisis Executive Director
Seattle City Light CEO
Women Against Abuse Executive Director
Public Welfare Foundation Executive Director
Clean Water Action Executive Director
American Humane CEO
Amigos de las Américas Executive Director
Nebraska Environmental Trust Executive Director
Western Governors' Association Executive Director
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund Executive Director
Washington State Department of Transportation Secretary
United for a Fair Economy Executive Director
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Executive Director
Puget Energy CEO
Afro American History Museum Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Executive Director
Constitutional Accountability Center President
Acumen Fund COO
Vermont Electric Power Company CEO
American Public Human Service Association CEO
Grassroots International Executive Director
Martha’s Vineyard Community Services Executive Director
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Executive Director
Peninsula School of Art Executive Director
Physicians for Social Responsibility Executive Director
Endicott College President
Oregon Public Health Director
NYC Department of Correction Director
Casa Myrna Vazquez Executive Director
Smart Start Executive Director
Public Welfare Foundation CEO
Pennsylvania Department of Public Health Secretary
Goddard College President
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families Executive Director
Fenway Community Health Center CEO
North Carolina Smart Start Executive Director
Washington State Board for Community Colleges Executive Director
National Employment Lawyers Association Executive Director
India Foundation Executive Director
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee President
Grassroots International Executive Director
Children's Home Society of Washington CEO
Poverty and Race Research Action Council Executive Director
Friends of Farmworkers Executive Director
MDRC President
Nicholson Foundation CEO
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Executive Director

WHO WE ARE

Ford Webb Associates is a national executive search firm that provides a unique blend of top-level management consulting and strategic search capabilities.  Our role and contribution extends beyond that of a typical recruitment firm and is distinguished by our emphasis on organizational analysis, strategic assessment and client counsel.  Our experience successfully managing hundreds of chief executive transitions of nonprofit, government and corporate organizations and movements at the international, national, local and grassroots levels continues to inform our work.  The integrity of our approach attracts the strongest, most discerning and diverse candidates, the result being a new leader, shared values and a united strategy.

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Testimonials

“I have known Ted (along with many other transition consultants) for decades and have enormous and unique respect for his unusually thoughtful approach. He has the ability to size up even the most complex situation. He readies the organization for its own specific future by helping it understand what it needs to do next while valuing where it has already been. We provide the complications and he makes sense of and simplifies the road forward!”

National Media Organization

Founder

"They are the best. Multidisciplinary experience. Geographic exposure in all US regions, confidential, tactful, thorough. Skillful at engaging the Board, the existing management team, and candidates in a way that gets great results and highly satisfied stakeholders."

National Child Welfare Organization

Board Chair

"Your counsel, recruitment and professional support in our search for a President was key to our success. I enthusiastically recommend you to any institution that is faced with a critical search for leadership."

Pac 10 University

Board Chair

“I can say unequivocally that Ted is the best search professional I’ve ever worked with. He is far more than a “transactional” search person. He approached the work as a partner to the search committee. His refreshingly consultative approach to the issues surrounding the search, his equally refreshing candor with board members, staff and candidates and his sparkling intellect and his humanity shone through every day.”

Physicians for Human Rights

Board Chair

“Your patience allowed you to gain the confidence of five difficult and independent politicians. Your astonishing creativity and your gentle way brought us to a remarkable result.”

Governor

I think of most people in your field as loud, clunky motorboats. They throw off a big wake, rock back and forth and finally get you in to port feeling a bit queasy. You, on the other hand, are like a fine-tuned sailboat. You got the wind at our back, steered us through the journey and smoothly up to the dock, where we stood to marvel at the beautiful sunset, ready for a new day.

National Nonprofit

Board Chair

I have worked with every major search firm. Every time I am left wondering, was this worth the cost and effort? For the first time, I do not think that. You made an incredible contribution to this process. Now I understand the difference.

National Union

President

The cabinet officers you recruited for my administration have made all the difference, not only in their leadership of their agencies but also in the quality of thinking and problem-solving we have accomplished as a cabinet group. Our state has been confronted with enormous challenges and you put us in a position to respond effectively. I want you to know that I know what you have given us. On behalf of our state, thank you.

Western Governor