Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. provides executive search and leadership consulting services worldwide. Its executive search services facilitate the recruitment, management, and deployment of senior executives. The company's leadership consulting services include succession planning, executive assessment, talent retention management, executive development, transition consulting for newly appointed executives, culture shaping, and mergers and acquisitions human capital integration consulting. Its customers include Fortune 1000 companies; non-U.S. companies; middle market and emerging growth companies; governmental, higher education, and not-for-profit organizations; and other private and public entities. The company was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.