Mike Sudermann

MIKE SUDERMANN is an executive recruiter with over ten years’ experience placing top tier talent with companies around the world. He is the owner of the award-winning executive search firm, Ascent Select, which uses a customized search approach to provide top tier professionals to clients in weeks rather than months like most firms, without sacrificing quality.

Before starting Ascent Select in 2011, Mike worked with a boutique executive search firm and built his reputation as an executive strategic search advisor, maintaining excellent relationships with clients and consistently meeting their needs for new talent. Within five years with the firm, he had reviewed over fifty thousand resumes, worked with over fourteen thousand hiring managers, and guided over five hundred executives in career and employment tactics. He became more than just a headhunter; he was a trusted partner to clients and an expert that leaders of industry came to for a wide array of career advice.

With his executive search experience, knowledge, and reputation, Mike set out to start his own boutique search firm. Ascent Select hit the ground running with an initial project that needed to fill forty-five roles in eight weeks, a daunting task even for a large, established firm. Ascent Select completed that project and went on to fill one hundred sixty positions for that client in many different departments.

Mike has now personally reviewed over eighty thousand resumes, worked with over one thousand executives, and made more than three hundred placements. He is the author of The Executive Leap: Breakthrough Strategies to Land Your Next Top Job and has spoken as an industry expert to audiences large and small.

When Mike isn’t working he is running, doing Crossfit, or enjoying family time at the lake.