Two colleagues reviewing a candidate profile together
Services

Healthcare Recruitment

Medical mistrust is at an all-time high. Your staff’s responsiveness to patients has to be at an all-time high too. Finding people your clients can trust takes expertise.

Executive Search Frontline Hiring

Every seat you need to fill

Chief Medical Officer, Comptroller, Nurse Practitioner, Outreach Specialist, Front Desk Clerk. You can’t afford to hire someone who doesn’t understand and welcome your client base.

Executive Search

Chief Medical Officers, Comptrollers, executive directors and senior clinical leaders. We vet for the mission as hard as we vet for the resume.

Clinical & Frontline

Clinical and Frontline Teams

Nurse practitioners, case managers, outreach specialists, community health workers and front desk staff. The people your clients actually meet.

Equity-Centered Hiring

Hiring Practices That Hold Up

Job descriptions, interview panels and scoring rubrics rebuilt so the pool widens and the bias narrows.

Ace Robinson
Who leads this work

Meet Who Leads Your Search

Ace Robinson, M.P.H., M.H.L.

Ace Robinson has spent two decades building the teams behind HIV, mpox and public health programs. He serves as Acting Director of Duke University’s Sexual & Gender Minority Wellness program, co-chairs the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership, sits on the UCLA CHIPTS steering committee, and chairs the Brown University Advisory Council to Eliminate Anti-Black Racism. His commentary on HIV policy and leadership appears regularly in TheBody and TheBodyPro.

“Building an exceptional team requires strategy, consistency, and dedication to find the best candidates, get them through the door, and ensure they stay.”

How we handle the heavy lifting

We handle the heavy lifting so you can select from a pool of well-qualified, vocationally focused candidates who’ve bought into your mission and vision. Equity Is the Word takes this most vital component off your hands and puts the best candidates in your palms.

Where we recruit

We recruit across the US, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, for on-site, remote and hybrid roles alike.

Who else supports your search

Collective members who’ve built and kept the teams they’re advising on.

Leandro Maldonado
Leandro Maldonado
Program Management · Rio de Janeiro
MBA. STEM project manager with over a decade of experience leading large teams and multi-million-dollar programs, including logistics for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Português MBA. Gerente de projetos STEM com mais de uma década de experiência liderando grandes equipes e programas multimilionários, incluindo a logística das Olimpíadas do Rio 2016.

What Clients Say

“They go far beyond with their invaluable insights and ability to cut through the noise to get to the heart of a matter. Simply a pleasure to work with.”

Dr. Cheyenne Batista
Founding CEO, Firefly Worldwide, Inc.

“Working with them through their Executive Coaching programming has been a fantastic experience. Our sessions were tailored to me.”

Dr. Miriam Rosenberg

Common questions

Six to twelve weeks for most leadership roles, depending on how narrow the candidate pool is and how many rounds your process runs.

Hiring for a critical role?

Send us the role, the timeline and what this hire needs to deliver. You’ll hear back within a week.

Get in Touch