CEO of Vanderbloemen Search Group

William Vanderbloemen is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and CEO/Founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group. He is a regular contributor to both Forbes and Fortune, and he is frequently asked to contribute to many media outlets on staff culture and team building.

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.

Prior to founding Vanderbloemen, William studied executive search under a mentor with over 25 years of executive search experience. His learning taught him the very best corporate practices, including the search strategies used by the internationally known firm Russell Reynolds.

William is regularly invited to speak across the country, teaching on leadership, staff culture, hiring, firing, and team building.  William holds degrees from Wake Forest University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He 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.

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