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Search, Staffing & Strategy for the Middle Market
Stature is a talent platform for middle-market companies. We help clients find leaders, deploy interim and contract talent, and solve the business issues behind the people need.
Stand Tall. Think Forward.
Talent problems are rarely just talent problems.
A vacant leadership seat, a stretched finance team, a missed operating plan, or a fast-growing business usually points to something larger. Stature helps companies address both sides of the issue: the people needed to move forward and the business problem those people are being asked to solve.
What We Do
Three jobs. One team. No handoffs.
Search finds the leader. Staffing keeps the seat warm and the business moving. Strategy fixes what no single hire can.
Staffing
We provide interim, contract, project, temp-to-hire, and professional staffing support when the business needs capacity now.
Strategy
We advise leadership teams through periods of growth, transition, pressure, and change.
Who We Work With
Built for the Middle Market
We work with founders, CEOs, private equity firms, family-owned companies, and middle-market operators who need practical help, clear advice, and the right talent in place.
- Outgrowing the team
- Succession ahead
- Cash under pressure
- A portfolio company off-thesis
- A seat sitting empty
- Diligence around the corner
Why One Roof
Pull one thread and the other two move.
The search turns up a strategy problem you didn't know you had. The strategy fix needs an operator who can actually carry it. Staffing keeps the ship steady while you find that person. Most firms handle one piece and leave you to stitch the rest. We own all three.
What you get when it works
You'll know it landed when the company is steadier, better led and worth more than the day we showed up.
The seat
Filled by someone the team and the board actually trust to run it
The cash
Visible, forecastable and no longer the thing keeping you up
The story
One version of the plan that leaders, lenders and investors believe
Who Runs It
Decades of Combined Experience
Dan Ellis
Co-Founder · Search & Staffing
Dan Ellis is a CPA and middle-market talent advisor with experience across executive search, finance, and strategic advisory work. He helps clients assess leadership talent with a practical view of fit, judgment, execution, and the realities of founder-led, family-owned, and PE-backed businesses.
Jeff Addison
Co-Founder · Strategy
Jeff is a turnaround and finance executive who has restructured billion-dollar companies and steered municipalities through some of the largest bankruptcies in U.S. history. He knows how to run a business when the conditions are at their worst.
Common Questions
Straight answers
What is Stature?
A talent platform for the middle market. We do three things from one team: executive search to place permanent leaders, staffing to supply interim executives and project talent, and strategy to advise at the C-suite on liquidity, performance, and high-stakes events. The work connects, so a leadership problem and the business problem under it get solved together.
Who does Stature work with?
Middle-market owners, founders, CEOs and the private equity firms that back them — usually at a pressure point. A company outgrowing its team, an owner planning succession, a business squeezed on cash, a portfolio company drifting from its thesis, a vacant C-suite seat or a sale where leadership gaps will surface in diligence.
How is a talent platform different from a search firm?
A search firm hands you a slate and leaves. Stature covers the whole problem: the permanent hire, the interim coverage that holds the seat until they start and the strategy work a new leader can't do alone. One team, three connected services, no handoffs between vendors who each own a piece.
Does Stature provide interim executives and staffing?
Yes. Our staffing practice places interim executives — including interim CFOs and CEOs — and project talent who start within days to stabilize cash, hold a function through transition and buy time to make the permanent decision well.
The clock started before you called.
Waiting costs more than a wrong turn in this market. If a seat is open or a decision is bearing down, let's talk before it gets made for you.