Drive Talent

Drive Talent is a boutique executive recruiting firm based in Chicago that delivers high-touch, relationship-driven search for placement of CFOs and Finance teams within small to mid-sized businesses. They specialize in creating strategic inflection points through hiring, fueling growth, loyalty, and lasting alignment between people and business goals.

Drive Talent operates as a boutique executive recruiting firm that goes beyond resumes and algorithms to uncover the stories that shape exceptional leadership, ensuring every placement is purposeful and impactful. Their process is consultative, thoughtful, and tailored to the unique culture of each client, designed to uncover what matters most in both candidate and company.

The firm offers three core service offerings: Retained Search with a flexible structure that blends traditional search rigor with milestone-based accountability; Fractional Search for short and long-term Finance resources who act as embedded partners; and their proprietary TREASR.AI™ tool that adds insight to executive search by uncovering what drives candidates and aligns with company culture.

Drive Talent provides particular impact to organizations experiencing aggressive growth or leadership transformation, working with full-time and fractional Finance talent from CFO to Director level. They have notable success in completing executive-level searches for Private Equity clients and placements within portfolio companies post-investment.

Their approach is built on core values of Service, Respect, Integrity, and Teamwork. The firm prides itself on boutique flexibility with tailored solutions, relationship-driven approach built on authenticity and trust, hands-on search where the selling team delivers the work, and pattern recognition ability to match people to suitable roles. They maintain genuine partnerships and long-term relationships with repeat clients, driving referral-based growth.