When clients retain Charleston Partners, they partner with the full resources of our firm. The knowledge sharing between our team helps improve firm effectiveness and the overall client experience. In order to ensure the highest quality standards, we are directly involved with each assignment and closely manage the search process from start to finish, ensuring consistency, accuracy, speed and professionalism.

We are selective about the HR assignments we accept, keeping them to a minimum to ensure high quality service to our clients. We are committed to satisfying our client's human resource hiring needs, while demonstrating integrity, quality and custom fit service that has earned us a stellar reputation in the marketplace.

Fran Luisi has been an executive search consultant since 1987. He has exclusively recruited human resource professionals ranging from Senior Vice Presidents to Managers of Human Resources in both generalist and specialist assignments.

Fran has managed executive search projects in every region of the United States as well as Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Emerging Markets, and the Asia Pacific regions, focusing on progressive organizations across industry sectors.

He began his executive search career with The Adler Group, a Human Resource Executive Search consultancy based in New York City.

Fran was previously the Vice President, National Practice Leader, Human Resources with the Stratford Group, an Executive Search firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and has been the principal of his own executive search firm, where he exclusively recruited human resource professionals for many years.

Prior to entering the executive search profession, he had various assignments with IBM in both divisional and corporate headquarter environments, supporting the personal computer, industrial manufacturing and software businesses.

Fran earned a B.S. degree in Criminology from Florida State University. He has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Human Resource Executive, and Workforce Management discussing global human resource and global talent acquisition issues. He is a member of the Florida State University Presidents Club, Florida State University Foundation, Human Resources Planning & Strategy (HRPS), The Society for Human Resource Management, The Institute for International Human Resources, The International Society for Performance Improvement, The Organization Development Network, World at Work, The Arc of Monmouth County, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Count Basie Theatre, where he Chairs the Human Resource Committee. Fran also Chairs the Advisory Board of Best Buddies-New Jersey.

Fran and his wife Lauren and their two children reside in Windermere, Florida.