President & CEO, Vanderbloemen Search Group

William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and CEO/Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group. In 2016 and 2017, the firm ranked in the top five in Entrepreneur.com’s Top Company Cultures list of all small businesses in the United States. In 2016, Houston Business Journal named the firm the third Best Place To Work in Houston, beating its 2015 ranking of fifth place. The firm was also named twenty-five on Forbes’ 2017 list of America’s Top Executive Recruiting Firms.

He also has experience as a Manager in Human Resources in a Fortune 200 company, where he focused on integration of corporate culture and succession planning.

William is regularly invited to speak across the country, teaching on leadership, staff culture, hiring, firing, and team building.  He holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary. William is a regular writer for Forbes, Entrepreneur, Outreach Magazine, and Fortune Insider, and he has contributed to many other prominent ministry, leadership, and business resources including FastCompany, Inc., Business.com, BBC, and The Washington Post.

He and his wife, Adrienne, their seven children, and poodles, Moses and Pearl, live in Houston. In his free time, he enjoys running, working out, and caddying for his kids, who are now better golfers than he is.