Our Approach
About Candie
Candie Fisher specializes in working with companies of all sizes to attract, hire and engage talent. A marketer at heart, she applies the fundamentals of marketing to amplify the recruiting and hiring process. She loves working with growing companies and has successfully partnered with scrappy, resource-challenged startup environments to scale their teams, structure and process while retaining the core of their values and culture. She helps companies going through growth, change or transformation with their people strategy, process and development. Her past experience includes:
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- Partner at Notogroup Executive Search, driving change initiatives, advising leaders and bringing outstanding talent to drive mission focused organizations
- CEO of Head Rush Technologies, creating culture, collaboration and accountability in a quickly growing and changing environment. $10m global industry disruptor - 25 employees
- Top 1% of leadership steering Continental Airlines’ transformation from "worst to first," then leading her team through 9/11 and several sales organization restructures. $10B global leader – 50,000 employees
- Transformed Frontier Airlines sales organization to top performance among low cost carriers. $1B national challenger brand – 5,000 employees
Candie Fisher has led organizational change both through exponential growth and times of global crisis. She has a unique lens, having been in the trenches as a functional leader, not just viewing from the sidelines. Candie has the ability to assess, diagnose and recommend a path forward for diverse challenges in teams and organizations.
Candie earned an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at University of Pittsburgh and a BA in Economics and Political Science from University of Rochester. She is an avid volunteer, working with organizations including Meals on Wheels, Camber Outdoors, Junior Achievement and Share Our Strength | No Kid Hungry. She is also a Mentor at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder and has taught Business Communications at the college level.
Candie has served as a board member with the Climbing Wall Association, a Trustee with the Meeting Professionals International Foundation and as the Vice Chair of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau/Visit Houston Board.
Candie lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family and works with clients nationwide.
Our Story
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She “gets” exactly what you are trying to do
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Candie on three important engagements – both hiring and being hired for key positions at a high growth private equity owned consumer company. She’s one of those rare people who not only “gets” exactly what you are trying to do, but gets it done with such speed and precision that it looks easy every time.
If you’re a growth company looking for great leaders, your first call should be to Candie!
On top of the details
Candie managed the search for a new VP of Sales for my company. Our new hire started just two weeks ago and he’s off to a strong start!
Candie did a great job of holding our hands through the process, as this was the first time we’ve used a recruiting firm. We always had visibility of the flow of candidates through the various stages of the process. When one promising candidate backed away, we knew there were more coming down the pipe. I liked that she was on top of the details. As an example, we always had an agenda emailed to us the day before our weekly meeting to make sure all the right topics would be covered. I’d be happy to get her help again in the future!
Delivers high quality candidates
Candie delivers high quality candidates, is highly responsive and adapts to the needs of the client.
I had the pleasure of working with Candie both as a recruit and later in looking to upgrade the talent in my new team. As a recruit, I was extremely impressed with the responsiveness which unfortunately is not the norm. Being on the other side of things now, it is important that every potential hire has a great experience. I also felt that Candie developed a good understanding of what we were looking for in our recruiting efforts and was able to cater to our needs. The progress was always transparent and Candie created the right amount of urgency to help us fill the positions in a timely manner. We were very happy with the process and results.
I would highly recommend Candie.
Extensive experience
I have had the pleasure of working with Candie on a variety of hiring projects. I always appreciate the way she uses her extensive experience to provide direction and clarity as we launch each new search. We happen to operate in a challenging geographic location when it comes to finding great talent for a variety of functions. Candie and her team are always able to locate those hard to find candidates who stay under the radar when using traditional internet search methods.
I look forward to working with Candie on our next project.