Egon Zehnder International is global executive search firm. With revenues of 644m USD in 2011, the firm ranks among the top three worldwide.
The firm was founded in 1964 by Egon Zehnder (a 1956 Harvard Business School graduate) and operates in 38 countries with 64 offices.
Currently Damien O'Brien, Paris, serves as CEO and Chairman. The firm has some 1200 employees, including 410 consultants.
The firm claims to offer services and expertise in the fields of Executive Search, Board Consulting and Leadership Strategy Services.
Academic research by the Harvard Business School has examined Egon Zehnder International's history, reward culture and the creation of different practices in the mid 1990s. One of the principles that the firm claims for itself - operating as a single profit center - was described in an article by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky in the Harvard Business Review (July 2009).
In his book "Working with Emotional Intelligence", US business author Daniel Goleman introduced his theory of emotional intelligence. In the chapter "The emotionally intelligent organization" he describes various firms, including Egon Zehnder International.