Agribusiness

Agribusiness offers unique opportunities and challenges for the stakeholders within it. It’s a broad space ranging from protein production to animal nutrition, with products and processes that span long, complex lifecycles and value chains. It’s also a fast-modernizing sector, bringing together massive, iconic players and innovative startups offering cutting-edge agricultural technologies to create value through new partnerships and strategic acquisitions. These trends make finding the right agribusiness leaders paramount, whether for a multigenerational family business moving toward private-equity ownership and nonfamily leadership or an established player seeking digital transformation. In any scenario, it’s about building a deep bench of current and rising leaders and looking within and outside your subsector to identify the best talent for your future.

Heidrick & Struggles has a long history of supporting agribusiness clients of all scales and ownership structures, including in-depth work and strategic partnerships with established and newer players. We have deep experience getting the broader market excited about agribusiness opportunities, with success recruiting a new phenotype of agribusiness leaders from leading technology businesses to drive high-value innovations and initiatives. By partnering across Heidrick practices and global offices, we cover the sector’s value chain end-to-end, bringing a modern take on succession, sustainability, DEI, and other critical topics, with a growing team dedicated to this space. Our guidance, processes, and frameworks stretch across search, assessment, coaching, and training, to provide whatever you need. In short, we’re excited to grow with you, enabling future-ready leadership in this essential, dynamic industry.