Ferguson Partners

Helps organizations find and integrate leaders suited to their roles, culture, and strategic needs.

Helps organizations build competitive compensation programs that support talent attraction, retention, business alignment, and growth.

Helps organizations develop effective leaders, strengthen teams and culture, and prepare talent for future leadership roles.

Helps organizations gain strategic clarity, improve effectiveness, streamline operations, and strengthen governance and continuity.

Helps organizations compare compensation and practices with the marketplace using industry-specific survey data and benchmarking reports.

Helps rising executive women develop leadership capabilities, expand peer networks, and prepare for greater enterprise responsibility.

Helps family enterprises align generations, strengthen leadership, plan succession, and pursue growth while preserving values and legacy.

Combines global search and consulting expertise to help infrastructure organizations build and support teams across international markets.

Executive & Board Search

Ferguson Partners conducts executive and board searches for CEOs, C-suite executives, board members, and other senior leaders across real estate and related industries. Services include defining role requirements, sourcing candidates through industry networks, assessing skills and cultural fit, supporting CEO succession, and guiding leadership onboarding and transitions. The firm also helps organizations strengthen board composition, build diverse candidate slates, and prepare for events such as IPOs and spinoffs.

Category: Executive Search Services

• Find Senior Leaders
  Supports organizations seeking leadership talent for critical executive and board positions across real estate and related industries.
• Access Specialized Talent
  Connects organizations with leadership candidates through industry networks and talent pools tailored to their sectors.
• Plan CEO Transitions
  Provides guidance across CEO succession, from developing a strategy and evaluating potential successors to supporting the new executive after appointment.
• Strengthen Board Governance
  Helps organizations refresh and build effective boards, respond to governance concerns, and prepare board leadership for significant corporate events.
• Evaluate Leadership Fit
  Combines candidate interviews, assessments, and references with consideration of organizational values and culture to inform selection.
• Broaden Candidate Representation
  Builds diverse talent representation into initial candidate slates, helping organizations consider a broader range of leadership perspectives.
• Support Leadership Transitions
  Helps new leaders understand the organization, its culture, and role expectations as they transition into their positions.
• Align Search Requirements
  Clarifies the role and candidate profile while helping decision-makers align on search requirements.
• Shape Competitive Offers
  Provides advice on executive pay and company structure to help organizations develop competitive offers aligned with their goals.

Compensation Consulting

Ferguson Partners provides specialized compensation consulting to public and private companies in real estate and related industries. Services include pay benchmarking, executive and board compensation, incentive plan design, proxy and governance advice, and transaction-related support. Recommendations draw on proprietary compensation data and are tailored to each organization’s needs, business strategy, and structure.

• Benchmark Pay Against Relevant Peers
  Use industry data and customized peer groups to assess compensation competitiveness and inform pay decisions.
• Design Incentives Around Performance
  Develop incentive structures and performance measures suited to the organization’s business strategy and compensation needs.
• Align Leadership Pay With Business Goals
  Assess executive and board pay in relation to organizational goals, market practices, and investor expectations.
• Strengthen Proxy Reporting And Compliance
  Develop clear compensation disclosures and address governance and compliance considerations for public companies.
• Tailor Pay Plans To Business Strategy
  Shape compensation plans around an organization’s needs, strategy, structure, and business model.
• Navigate Compensation Considerations In Transactions
  Address compensation planning and related matters during IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, internalizations, and deal negotiations.
• Evaluate Enterprise Equity Options
  Explore equity award structures and economics, including cash-flow or enterprise-based approaches and valuation.
• Structure Employment And Severance Terms
  Receive support in negotiating and structuring employment agreements and severance policies.

Leadership Consulting

Ferguson Partners’ leadership consulting helps organizations cultivate leaders who inspire teams and drive results. Its developmentally focused approach combines behavioral and psychological insight, expert tools, data, and customized guidance. Services include leadership assessments and executive coaching, leadership development programs, culture transformation, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, organizational advisory, and succession planning. Assessments support hiring, onboarding, development, promotion, and succession, while coaching focuses on actionable development and measurable behavior change.

Category: Leadership Development Services

• Strengthen Leadership Effectiveness
  Use assessment insights to inform talent decisions and coaching to help leaders make actionable development progress and change behavior.
• Develop Leadership Capabilities
  Help leaders apply their strengths in new ways and understand their values and development opportunities across different contexts.
• Prepare Future Senior Leaders
  Prepare high-potential talent for senior roles through customized planning that considers leadership development and succession risk.
• Embed Values In Organizational Culture
  Work with leadership and teams to define and reinforce values and behaviors that support organizational success and a sustainable culture.
• Strengthen Team Effectiveness
  Address organizational and team dynamics to support more effective communication, conflict resolution, and trust among leadership teams.
• Build Leadership Self-Awareness
  Incorporate stakeholder perspectives to support leaders’ self-awareness and long-term development.
• Build More Inclusive Organizations
  Use tailored strategies and initiatives, including focus groups, leadership engagement, and workshops, to create a culture of inclusion.

Management Consulting

Ferguson Partners provides management consulting to public and private organizations, drawing on experience in real estate and real assets. Consultants use proprietary data, real-time market insights, industry relationships, and client-specific analysis to support strategy and market positioning, organizational design, operational efficiency, governance, and succession planning. Engagements are tailored to each organization and can include strategic planning, growth initiatives, organizational structure and role definition, operational analysis, board formation, and succession plans.

Category: Management Consulting

• Sharpen Strategy And Market Position
  Work with consultants to set strategic direction, define growth initiatives, and identify competitive advantages informed by industry knowledge and market insights.
• Align Structure, Roles, And Talent
  Shape organizational structure, role definition, and talent arrangements around the organization’s strategy, people, culture, and operations.
• Streamline Operations And Reduce Inefficiencies
  Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools, resources, and workloads, and use data-informed decisions to support consistent results and profitability.
• Strengthen Governance And Oversight
  Establish governance practices and board structures that clarify decision-making roles, strengthen shareholder oversight, and support organizational effectiveness.
• Support Continuity And Resilience
  Plan for succession to help ensure business continuity and strengthen organizational resilience.

Survey services

Ferguson Partners conducts surveys on compensation practices across real estate sectors and the industry as a whole, as well as organizational and other industry topics. Subjects include compensation levels and program design, benefits, board practices, hiring trends, and organizational assessments. Ferguson Partners also partners with trade associations on annual industry-specific surveys. Survey reports provide participants with comparative marketplace benchmarks, and findings support the firm’s industry databases and project work.

• Benchmark Compensation Practices
  Use survey data on compensation levels, program design, and positional pay to compare practices with the marketplace.
• Compare Marketplace Standing
  Use survey reports to assess how practices and position compare with the marketplace.
• Benchmark Organizational Practices
  Compare organizational practices using surveys focused on office and industrial, mortgage finance, multifamily, and retail.
• Access Industry-Specific Surveys
  Benefit from annual surveys conducted with trade associations across industry-specific areas, including compensation data and design trends.
• Compare Benefits Practices
  Review survey findings on benefits design and administration as part of a broader view of industry practices.
• Track Hiring Trends
  Review findings on hiring trends and industry sentiment, including through the FPL Hiring Survey and quarterly Real Estate Roundtable sentiment surveys.
• Support Data-Driven Project Work
  Survey findings contribute to Ferguson Partners’ industry databases and project work.
• Assess Board Practices
  Use survey findings to compare board practices with reported industry practices.

Women’s Leadership Development Program

A six-month hybrid program for rising executive women in real estate and real assets preparing to take on greater enterprise leadership. Built on Ferguson Partners’ proprietary Leadership Capability Framework, it combines in-person workshops, virtual application sessions, psychometric assessment, personalized executive coaching, and peer and individual assignments. The program develops capabilities across perspective, people, and performance, with a focus on strategic judgment, leadership effectiveness, execution, relationships, and succession readiness.

Category: Leadership Development Services

• Strengthen Strategic Judgment And Leadership Effectiveness
  The program helps participants develop enterprise mindsets, people-leader capabilities, and knowledge of self, while strengthening strategic judgment, leadership effectiveness, and execution capability.
• Expand Peer Relationships And Industry Networks
  Cohort assignments and shared learning experiences help participants learn from peers and build relationships with senior-level women from diverse real estate organizations.
• Prepare For Expanded Enterprise Responsibility
  Participants develop capabilities intended to prepare them for greater leadership scope and enterprise responsibility.
• Develop Leadership Skills Over Six Months
  Participants follow a structured learning journey combining virtual and in-person experiences to build leadership capabilities over six months.
• Build Capabilities Through Immersive Workshops
  Three in-person workshops give participants focused, cohort-based experiences for developing leadership capabilities.
• Apply Personalized Coaching To Development
  Personalized sessions with an experienced executive coach provide targeted development aligned with participants’ leadership growth.
• Reinforce New Leadership Behaviors
  Two virtual application sessions reinforce accountability and support the sustainability of new leadership behaviors.
• Build Self-Awareness Of Leadership Tendencies
  The psychometric assessment helps participants understand their strengths, motivators, and potential derailers as part of their development.

Family-owned business advisory

An integrated advisory service for family-led real estate organizations and closely held businesses. Ferguson Partners combines executive search, strategic advisory, and compensation design to help families professionalize leadership, plan for succession, strengthen governance, and pursue growth while protecting family values and legacy. Services include strategic planning and capital guidance, leadership and organizational diagnostics, governance and decision frameworks, compensation design, and recruitment of executives and independent board or advisory members. The practice supports family and professional leaders through growth and leadership transitions with actionable diagnostics and a data-driven methodology.

Category: Management Consulting

• Align Leadership, Strategy, And Compensation
  Families receive connected advice across executive search, strategic planning, and compensation design, supporting alignment across key areas of the enterprise.
• Align Generations Around A Shared Vision
  The planning process helps families align family branches and executive leadership around portfolio strategy and actionable plans for the enterprise’s next phase.
• Prepare Leaders For Smooth Transitions
  Families can clarify who is ready to lead and what is needed for leadership handoffs across family and non-family executives.
• Clarify Decision Rights And Accountability
  Families can strengthen oversight and clarify how decisions are made across generations, ownership, and management.
• Align Rewards With Long-Term Performance
  Tailored compensation and incentive plans can support family strategy, reflect family values, and align rewards with ownership and long-term performance.
• Bring In Values-Aligned External Leaders
  Families can access external executive and board talent selected to bring additional perspective in alignment with their culture and long-term vision.
• Guide Capital Allocation Across Generations
  Families can establish a consistent approach to capital decisions by clarifying allocation, diversification, and reinvestment considerations across generations.
• Identify Organizational Changes For Growth
  An organizational diagnostic gives families a view of how well their current structure, leadership, and talent investment fit their growth plans.
• Sustain Leadership And Talent Over Time
  Career pathways, long-term incentives, and ongoing talent development help support continuity in key roles as the organization evolves.
• Define Hiring Needs Before The Search
  Families can clarify the requirements for an executive or board role before launching a search.

Global Infrastructure Talent Management Platform

Created through a relationship between Ferguson Partners and Curzon, the Global Infrastructure Talent Management Platform combines Ferguson Partners’ human capital management and consulting capabilities with Curzon’s infrastructure executive search expertise. It provides executive search, management consulting, leadership consulting, and remuneration consulting for infrastructure organizations, with coverage across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC. The platform supports senior talent recruitment across investment, investor relations, asset management, board, and portfolio company leadership roles, and helps clients recruit, assess, mentor, organize, and compensate teams.

• Access Talent Across Global Markets
  Clients can draw on the combined platform’s presence across EMEA, the Americas, and APAC to access talent and support searches across international markets.
• Recruit Senior Infrastructure Leaders
  The platform helps clients identify senior leaders for infrastructure investment, investor relations, asset management, board, and portfolio company leadership roles.
• Strengthen Infrastructure Management
  Clients can access management consulting alongside executive search, leadership consulting, and remuneration consulting through the combined platform.
• Support Leadership Needs
  Leadership consulting complements recruitment and management advice as part of the platform’s coordinated infrastructure talent management services.
• Develop Teams For Infrastructure Growth
  The combined capabilities support recruitment, assessment, mentoring, organization, and compensation to help clients build teams for infrastructure growth.
• Address Team Remuneration
  Clients can access remuneration consulting as part of a broader offering designed to help organize and compensate infrastructure teams.