What We Do

We have been helping education companies find top executives and assemble goal-driven teams for over 25 years.

What We Do

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Leadership & Executive
Search Initiatives

“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 the expertise that provides complex business problem-solving, strategic growth aptitude and Education market knowledge or passion. TRN offers over a quarter century of experience placing C-level talent within the Education and Technology sectors. Our extensive reach within Education and EdTech provides our clients with 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.

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Sales & Business
Development Expansion

“With the goal of sustainable 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 education, vocational training, continuing learning, corporate education) 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 wants 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.

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Marketing & 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 results, 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

The Renaissance Network is an experienced search provider with a proven track record of finding diverse leaders and building cross-functional teams for non-profit and for-profit organizations. We provide broad US and International talent for seed, venture, growth and public companies that are striving to impact learners worldwide.

Roles Across Organization

  • Product/Development
  • Finance/Administration
  • General Management
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Operations
  • Leadership
  • Sales
  • Marketing

Education Verticals

  • Early learning
  • K12
  • Higher Education
  • Vocational Training
  • Continuing Learning
  • Corporate Education

Solutions

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • VR
  • AR
  • AI
  • Publishing
  • Curriculum
  • Professional Development
  • Education Services
  • Robotics
Customer Results
“I really do feel like that partnership makes me better – makes me better as a hiring manager, makes me better as a person to support the onboarding of the right candidate, and makes me better even with candidates that we turn down.”