The desk behind Rolodexa · Griffin, GA

Sit down — let me tell you how I actually fill a seat.

I’m the whole firm. I take one retained VP or C-suite search at a time, and I stay with it from the first calibration call to the day your finalist signs. No hand-offs, no sourcing pool you never meet, no drip of half-fit résumés.

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Rolodexa's founder at a walnut desk with a leather portfolio and fanned business cards under violet-edged lamplight

One at a timeYour search gets my calendar.

Why this desk exists

I got tired of watching good roles go to whoever answered first.

For years I sat across from founders who’d been handed five résumés and told to “pick one.” None of them fit the seat. So I built the practice I wished they’d called — slow, on the ground, out of Griffin.

— The founder, Rolodexa

2009

Inside the machine

I started on the agency floor, carrying a phone list and a quota. I learned the market cold — and learned exactly how a hurried shortlist gets built when volume, not fit, pays the bills.
2016

The leadership seats

I moved into VP and C-suite work, where a bad hire costs a year and a reorg. That’s where I stopped reading logos and started reading the decisions people made under real pressure.
2023

The last straw

A founder I respected settled for a “fine” CFO because the search dragged and everyone was exhausted. Fourteen months later she was hiring again. I decided nobody I work with would be rushed into that corner.
2026

Rolodexa, one seat at a time

I opened the desk in Griffin to do it the deliberate way — one retained mandate at a time, billed per engagement, with the person you brief being the person who closes the offer.

What you can hold me to

Three standards I stamp on every search.

I go find them.

The leaders you want rarely apply. I map who’s actually doing the job well in your market and adjacents, then pick up the phone — including the people who aren’t “looking.”

Four to six names, each earned.

Every candidate on the shortlist comes with a written dossier and a structured interview kit, so your panel scores the same things the same way — no gut-feel roulette.

I stay until the ink dries.

Deep references, comp benchmarking, and me in the middle of the negotiation — reading the room so a “maybe” becomes a signed start date, not a lost finalist.

How the desk is run

You get one person, the whole way through.

No account manager to re-brief, no junior sourcer forwarding names they’ve never spoken to. When you call Rolodexa, you get me — and I stay close enough to the work to answer for every name on your list.

I answer the phone.Brief me directly. The person you talk to on day one is the person calling your finalist on day seventy.
One mandate at a time.I don’t juggle a dozen searches. Taking yours means it gets my calendar — which is exactly why the shortlist stays short.
Billed per engagement.A flat retained fee for the search, not a percentage lottery on the offer — so my incentive is fit, not inflating comp.

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Recruiter's desk with a leather notebook, wax seal, card index and desk phone under warm violet-tinged light

The plain facts

What working with the Griffin desk actually looks like.

Search at a time

Your mandate isn’t one of twenty on a spreadsheet. It’s the only VP or C-suite seat I’m working.

~10

Weeks, calibrate to close

A typical retained search runs about ten weeks — mapping to shortlist to a signed offer, with you looped in the whole way.

4–6

Vetted on the shortlist

A short, defensible list — each with a written dossier and a structured interview kit, not a stack to sort.

Griffin & nationwide

Based on McIntosh Trail in Griffin, serving Spalding County and running searches across the country by phone.