We are a retained executive search firm specializing in the recruitment and placement of individuals for executive and senior level administrative positions in education.

Deerfield Associates Executive Search, Inc. recruits and places exceptional candidates for senior level administrative positions at colleges, universities and independent schools, both nationally and internationally. Established in 2001, the firm has successfully conducted and completed 500+ searches. Over 88 percent of our 133 clients return to us for additional search work.

Deerfield Associates is a search firm that recruits on a national basis and has offices based in Wellesley Mass, Amherst Mass, Bethany Beach, Delaware, Charlotte North Carolina, and Miami Florida.

Deerfield Associates is named to remind our clients of historic values, a strong work ethic, integrity and the academic foundation of founder Doug Cooney’s upbringing in Western Massachusetts.

Born in Northampton, he grew up a block from Smith College, spent his college years in Amherst and married a woman from Deerfield. Deerfield is a beautiful, historic town surrounded by a hard working farming community, and home to a superb academy. Hence the name Deerfield Associates made perfect sense. It still does.