Advice from people who’ve been in the room.
ETA was built on a simple premise: the decisions about who leads (who gets hired, who gets promoted, who gets coached through a hard transition) deserve more rigor than they usually get. Too often they happen under time pressure, with incomplete information, filtered through people who have something to gain from the outcome.
We work differently. ETA is independent by design. No bench of junior recruiters, no volume incentive, no conflict between advising the company and advising the executive. Every engagement is led directly by an advisor with real, senior-level experience in identifying and developing leadership talent, not handed off once the contract is signed.
Our Approach
We start by getting the decision right, not the process fast. That means understanding what a role actually requires before we go looking for who might fill it, and staying engaged past the handshake, because a leadership decision isn’t finished until the person is actually succeeding in the seat.
ETA is the executive advisory practice built by the team behind CapitolWorks, a search firm trusted by organizations across the public affairs, policy, and advocacy landscape for nearly two decades.