Kimberly Ehler

Kimberly is the founder of Archer Field Associates (previously known as Ehler Search Partners. Inc) and has more than 20 years of executive search experience building and guiding executive search, talent acquisition and HR solutions at top-tier companies. As an accomplished corporate executive recruiting and human capital professional, her vision and expertise in aligning next gen talent acquisition practices with business needs and strategic objectives has driven notable return to the organizations she has served.

Kimberly is a long-time advocate for changing the executive recruiting game. She was an early pioneer in offering more creative, transparent and cost-effective solutions to executive search and has earned a distinguished reputation for providing customized search services tailored to each client’s individual needs. Kimberly has worked on engagements for some of the world’s most highly regarded employers. For one major financial institution, she successfully placed more than 150 leaders across its Commercial, Retail Banking and Credit Card Services. Her flexible, collaborative, and consultative approach to relationship building and customer service has not gone unnoticed, as is evidenced by 15 years of business produced exclusively by long-term, repeat client engagements and professional referrals.

Kimberly’s flexible approach has included both the management & execution of executive search engagements and also the partnering with corporate in-house recruitment organizations to augment their internal talent acquisition activities. A few examples of these assignments include establishing the executive search function for T-Mobile, managing executive search activities for the R&D division of Research-In-Motion, acting as Executive Recruiting Principal and establishing the executive search function at Intellectual Ventures, and partnering with Washington Mutual’s executive search services across a variety of technology, business intelligence, financial and shared services organizations.

In addition to her experience running Archer Field Associates, Kimberly’s career has also included corporate talent acquisition and human resource leadership roles at large, high-growth, domestic and international companies such as Amazon, T-Mobile, and Starbucks