Sarah Burley Reid is a senior member of Spencer Stuart’s Financial Services Practice where she advises executive leadership teams and boards across asset management, wealth management and family offices. Within this, she also leads the firm’s Private Wealth Management and Family Office Specialty Practice. Sarah brings extensive experience counseling organizations on talent strategy, leadership succession and culture. In her search work, she focuses on the recruitment of CEOs, other C-level executives, investment professionals, sales and marketing leaders and board members.
Deep experience in executive search and board advisory across asset management, wealth management and family offices
- In her search practice, Sarah advises a diverse range of clients, including institutional asset managers, wealth management firms, endowments and foundations, family offices and family enterprises, private equity firms, hedge funds and OCIO firms.
- Based in the firm’s New York office, she partners with clients across the United States and internationally. She is a two-time recipient of the firm’s annual award for the highest quality client service.
- With more than 25 years of management consulting and leadership advisory experience, Sarah brings deep industry knowledge and dedication to world-class client service. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, she was a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, where she advised senior management of financial services companies on a variety of strategic and operational issues.
- Earlier in her career, Sarah served as head of research for The VIP Forum, a program of the Corporate Executive Board, which provided strategic research services to investment management firms, private banks and trust companies.
Sarah graduated from Harvard College, where she received her A.B., cum laude, in history and literature. She also holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She serves on the board and executive committee of the Harvard Club of New York City. Sarah lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters.