About the practice · Turtle Lake, WI

A small desk. We run one search at a time and we run it ourselves.

No account team, no research pod handing you off after kickoff. The person who scopes your mandate is the person who calls the finalist and sits in on day 90. That constraint is deliberate.

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01Why the firm exists

Started to fix the handoff.

Retained search sold well and delivered thin — the pitch partner disappeared and a research desk you never met ran the job.

The problem we kept watching

Growth-stage founders would pay a full retainer for a VP or C-suite hire, sit through a polished pitch, and then never speak to that person again. The mandate got worked by a rotating research bench measured on submittal volume, not fit. Shortlists arrived padded. References got skipped. The onboarding a leader actually needs to hold their seat wasn’t in scope at all.

What we built instead

A deliberately small practice out of Turtle Lake, Wisconsin — a desk that takes one senior mandate at a time and runs it end to end. Calibration, market map, structured scored panels, triangulated references, offer and equity support, and a first-90-days brief are one continuous engagement owned by one person. The scale is the point: fewer searches, each finished properly.

Who we’re a fit for

Series A through C companies and founder-led firms hiring at the director-through-C-suite level, where a single wrong seat sets the year back two quarters. If you need forty coordinators filled fast, we’re the wrong shop and we’ll tell you on the first call.

02What we hold to

The rules the practice runs on.

Scorecard before sourcing

No name goes on a list until the competency, comp band, and reporting lines are written down and signed off.

Every name is traceable

A shortlist you can defend to your board — each finalist tied to a scored panel, not a hunch or a warm intro.

We say no on the first call

If a retained search isn’t the right instrument for the role, we tell you before you commit a cent.

The placement has to hold

We stay through day 90 and back it with a 180-day replacement guarantee — closing isn’t the finish line.

“You’re not paying for a bigger network. You’re paying for one person to carry your search to close and stand behind it.”

How we describe the work to a first-time client

03The people on the desk

Who actually runs your mandate.

Consultants mapping a candidate slate against a scorecard

Two consultants, no bench behind them.

Between the two desks we’ve run functional-director through C-suite mandates across SaaS, healthcare services, industrial, and fintech. When you engage us, you get one of those two people from calibration to onboarding — the same voice on the phone the whole way. There is no research team you never meet.

(715) 205-4396

Hours: Mon–Fri 9:30am–7pm · Sat 9am–5pm · Sun closed
Email: contact@alabastertalent.com

Based in Turtle Lake, working wherever the seat is.

Our office is on 145th Ave. We calibrate in person when it’s worth the drive and over video when it isn’t, and we source nationally — off-market and passive candidates included. Come in with the org chart and the comp band and we’ll draft the scorecard on the whiteboard the same afternoon.

82 145th Ave #T
Turtle Lake, WI 54889

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The Alabaster Talent office in Turtle Lake

04How an engagement is shaped

The commitments we put in writing.

180 Days of replacement guarantee on every placement — sourcing and interview stages re-run at no additional engagement fee if the fit fails inside the window.

10 Business days from kickoff to a calibrated longlist, including off-market and passive candidates who aren’t applying anywhere.

4–6 Vetted finalists on a shortlist, each run through the same scored panel so your board compares like for like.

Retained search · Turtle Lake, WI

Now you know how we work. The rest is one call.

Tell us the seat you need to fill. We’ll scope it, price it to the dollar, and give you a realistic timeline before you commit anything.

Call (715) 205-4396