Beau Blanchard builds high-impact leadership teams that drive enterprise value and support sustained performance. Whether evaluating talent for executive roles with high expectations or working with the board and CEO to determine the ideal leader for a complex challenge, Beau’s clients trust in his strong partnership, strategic precision and steadfast commitment.
He is a key member of the firm's Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, specializing in senior executive search within the SaaS, software, data services and AI markets. He advises technology companies at the highest levels, focusing on board, CEO, COO/president and GTM roles for publicly traded, early stage, sponsor-backed and family-owned organizations. With deep expertise in guiding businesses through pivotal growth stages, Beau aligns corporate objectives with the strategic capabilities and leadership styles of top-tier executives, ensuring transformative cultural and business outcomes.
A focus on guiding businesses and individuals through critical inflection points
- In his time at Spencer Stuart, Beau has conducted hundreds of assignments, with a focus on executive search and leadership advisory assignments. His core work is with B2B technology companies, with experience across seed stage, mid-cap and F100.
- As just a few examples of his work, Beau helped one company hire and advise a CRO to guide the organization through hypergrowth and scale to 100%+, has advised multiple clients on CCO searches to help modernize their approach to customer success and has supported several large public and sponsor-backed companies on their succession planning across various leadership roles.
- Beau served as a mentor for underserved youth in the Greater Seattle Area, using athletics as a positive catalyst for improvement in young adolescent lives.
He holds a B.A. in communications and marketing from the University of Washington, where he also served as a member and two-time captain of the nationally ranked men’s soccer team.