Beyond an Award

By Scott Berman and Kathy Butler

HawkPartners’ recognition as a Great Place to Work and inclusion on Fortune’s Best Consulting and Professional Services and Best Small and Medium Companies lists highlights how our supportive work culture enhances client outcomes. By fostering meaningful connections and investing in our team’s learning, we strengthen collaboration and deliver deeper insights, benefiting our clients through richer partnerships and innovative solutions.

Over the last several years, HawkPartners has been honored with an array of awards relating to employee satisfaction, including being recognized as a Great Place to Work, one of Fortune’s Best Workplaces among Consulting and Professional Services Firms, and one of Fortune’s Best Workplaces among Small and Medium Companies. While our inclusion on these lists is obviously flattering, and confirms our ongoing efforts to create and maintain a unique and positive workplace culture, it is most important because it benefits our clients.

By fostering meaningful connections and investing in our team’s continuous learning, we strengthen collaboration and can deliver deeper insights and solutions. As a professional services firm, at the end of the day our clients are hiring our people. Being able to attract, train and keep the best consultants means we can provide richer partnerships, more creative and innovative thinking, and better outcomes for our clients.

Recognition of the satisfaction and loyalty of our team has direct implications for how we serve our clients:

  • Better Recruiting – including an ability to find the best candidates from the broadest range of backgrounds
  • Higher Retention – leading to more consistent client teams, strong relationships and deeper institutional learning and knowledge
  • Grater Commitment – a willingness of our team to go the extra mile to meet our clients’ needs
Group of HawkPartners

We take tremendous pride in our strong, values-driven culture.  We continue to strive to be an inclusive workplace where all of our people feel welcomed and empowered in their roles at HawkPartners, and as a firm we continue to evolve and respond to new workplace expectations and generational trends.  We operate as a one-title firm (everyone is a “Partner” at HawkPartners), with a decentralized management structure and emphasis on team-based collaboration. Our hope and expectation is that these same values carry over to how we engage with our clients.  As our co-founder Rob Duboff often says, “take care of our people and the rest will take care of itself.”