
Executive Search
“A successful leader connects people and strategy to drive an organization to reach its full potential”
When investing in executive talent for the Education and Learning space, The Renaissance Network (TRN) has observed that organizations often seek expertise that provides complex business problem solving, strategic growth aptitude and Education market knowledge or passion. TRN offers almost 25 years’ experience placing C-level talent from both the Education and Technology sectors. Our extensive reach within Education and Education Technology provides our clients a trusted network of international executive talent.
The TRN custom-by-role, data-driven assessment has identified critical traits associated with evaluating strong leadership including:
- Assertiveness - A natural tendency to take action or control in most situations
- Logical Problem Solving - The ability to apply a step-by-step approach to solve problems
- Structure - A natural tendency to seek order and correctness
We partner with our clients to place CEOs/Executive Directors/Presidents, Board Members/Trustees, C-suite/senior leaders across all disciplines, and emerging leaders.

Sales and Business Development Talent Search
“With the goal of substantiable impact, the sales team increases revenue flow, grows existing and new territories, and builds a network by establishing and strengthening connections”
Building repeatable sales growth within the Education markets (early learning, k-12, higher ed, workforce) relies significantly on building authentic networks and delivering successful, solution-led customer engagement. Organizations looking to increase revenue, establish territory growth and impact end-users require a sales methodology enthusiast with an understanding of customer value propositions, and a devotion to pipeline growth. Whether an organization is looking to achieve rapid growth or enter a new market, partnering with TRN to build a sales team provides an efficient talent solution that draws on a quarter century’s experience placing Education and EdTech sales and business development talent.
Our custom-by-role, soft and hard skill assessment prioritizes certain traits most associated with evaluating strong sales talent including:
- Rapid Problem Solving - The ability to quickly and intuitively recognize patterns from information
- Assertiveness - A natural tendency to take action or control in most situations
- Intensity - Propensity related to emotional vigor when overcoming challenges
We partner with our clients to place CROs, Vice Presidents, Directors, Sales/ Account/Customer Success managers, Sales Development Representatives and all revenue driving positions.

Marketing and Growth Talent Search
"Marketing is the growth engine for a company and should own the mandate to develop a unique brand positioning that provides customer connectivity, organizational alignment and strategic guardrails”
Developing healthy and consistent growth requires organizations to combine analytics-driven marketing and growth roles into more integrated positions that focuses on driving lead generation, developing a deep connection with the end-user and monetizing touchpoints. When hiring marketing talent, TRN evaluates a candidate’s ability to monitor and evaluate, create and execute against a go-to-market strategy and be a marketing technology expert.
The TRN custom-by-role, data-driven assessment identifies critical traits associated with evaluating marketing success potential:
- Vocabulary - A measure of how easily and quickly a person picks up and learns new concepts and ideas
- Logical Problem Solving - The ability to apply a step-by-step approach to solve problems
- Structure - A natural tendency to seek order and correctness
We partner with our clients to place CMOs, Vice Presidents, Directors, Marketing/Growth managers, Marketing Analysts, Product Marketing Managers and digital growth positions.

Other positions TRN recruits
- Product/ Development
- Finance/Administration
- General Management
- Human Resources
- Information Technology
- Operations
The Renaissance Network is an experienced search provider with a proven track record of building teams for non-profit and for-profit organizations. We provide leading US and International talent for seed, venture, growth and public companies that are striving to impact learners worldwide.
Education Verticals
- PreK
- K12
- Higher Education
- Workforce Learning
- STEM/ STEAM
- Language/ Literacy
- Social and Emotional Learning
Solution
- Hardware
- Software
- VR
- AR
- AI
- Publishing
- Curriculum
- Professional Development
- Education Services
- Robotics