Chief of Staff Recruiting:

Connecting You With the Best in the Business

Nova partners you with trusted, strategic Chiefs of Staff and Executive Assistants expertly matched to your leadership style and goals, enabling you to excel even when your plate is full.

Our Question to You:

Are you looking for a pathway to elevate your company’s impact, streamline operations, or optimize internal processes?

At Nova, we specialize in connecting business leaders with the ideal Chief of Staff to do just that!

We leverage our unmatched global network of deeply vetted candidates, including those certified through our hands-on CoS curriculum, to execute your vision with the clarity, speed, and precision your workload demands.

Your Go-To Resource for Recruiting a World-Class Chief of Staff

Nova has deep experience in placing certified Chiefs of Staff with CEOs, Founders, and Executives in some of the most innovative companies in the world. We designed our process as a one-stop resource for business leaders who are scaling fast and needed leverage yesterday.

Nova Chief of Staff recruiting guarantees:

  • Together, we’ll review your unique leadership style, business goals, pain points, and where you’d like the most support. Together, we define the ideal Chief of Staff to meet your needs and accomplish your goals.

  • When you work with Nova, you gain access to our community of thousands of trusted Chiefs of Staff from across industries and geographies–all ready to step into complex, high-trust environments.

  • You can trust that every candidate we share with you is carefully assessed for competent execution, EQ, communication skills, and alignment with your specific needs.

  • We move quickly to deliver final-round candidates within four to six weeks, while maintaining our commitment to quality and providing you with only the best talent for the role.

  • With years of experience in scoping, training, and coaching in the Chief of Staff space, we understand what it takes to make this role work well for your organization. With Nova, you’ll not only connect with someone skilled in the position, but someone who will thrive in it.

How a Chief of Staff can support your business:

  • Internal Systems

    A CoS improves organizational effectiveness by clarifying roles, optimizing task delegation, addressing challenges, and ensuring swift responses to priority tasks.

  • Organizational Planning

    By enhancing operational processes, a CoS facilitates greater strategic foresight and establishes a more effective cadence of meetings, reviews, and team check-ins.

  • Strategy & Priority Setting

    A CoS benefits organizational leadership by increasing transparency within the executive team, facilitating better planning and prioritization, and monitoring progress toward goals set by the Founder(s) or CEO.

  • Internal & External Communications

    As an executive’s right hand, a CoS develops communications regarding leadership activities and prepares leaders thoroughly for meetings and other engagements, including opportunities for networking and strengthening stakeholder relationships.

You can think of a Chief of Staff as your most-trusted strategic collaborator, someone who focuses on executing key actions so you can concentrate on leading your business effectively.

Tap into our network of exceptional Chiefs of Staff ready to dive in and drive impact.

We work with you to determine the best fit for your organization, then offer 2-4 final round CoS candidates ready to be interviewed and actioned for your business.

If you're contemplating adding a Chief of Staff to your team but aren’t quite sure what the role entails or how to identify the ideal candidate, Nova is here to support you! We assist in clarifying the advantages of a CoS, defining the role’s scope, and sourcing qualified candidates—so you can get back to focusing on your key priorities as a leader.

How to know when it’s time to bring in a Chief of Staff:

  • You're spending too much time on follow-ups and team alignment.

  • You're leading high-stakes projects without a clear owner and managing senior stakeholders who rely on you for updates/information.

  • You're ready to invest $140-200K+ for the right person and provide a CoS with trust and visibility.

Not sure? Book a discovery call below to chat with us.

Meet the Seasoned Chiefs of Staff Recruiting Your Next Candidate

  • Maggie Olson is the Founder of Nova Chief of Staff, the premier destination for Chief of Staff education, certification, and development. With 20 years of experience in retail, F&B, and tech, she has held leadership roles at Nordstrom and T-Mobile. As the first Chief of Staff to the President of T-Mobile Business Group, Maggie built the Chief of Staff model, establishing a highly efficient team and executive back-office structure supporting the President, SVPs, and over 5,000 employees.

    With a wealth of experience leading in the CoS space, she’s ready to help you find elite talent that can move your business forward!

  • From experience as a Chief of Staff to the CEO of a publicly traded company, to PE-backed organizations preparing for transactions, to building the foundation of a Venture Capital-backed startup, Kristin has experience across the board. She’s served as a trusted hiring partner for leaders ranging from Founders to professional athletes, now helping Nova support companies in finding, vetting, and hiring exceptional Chiefs of Staff.With a wealth of experience leading in the CoS space, she’s ready to help you find elite talent that can move your business forward!

Finding your dream Chief of Staff has never been easier.

When you work with Nova Chief of Staff, you can trust that you’re partnering with experts in the CoS space who bring care, quality, and precision to every candidate search. As leaders of the industry’s top CoS Certification course and coaches to hundreds of leaders building the role inside their businesses, we know exactly what you’re looking for in an ideal candidate and simplify the recruitment process from inquiry to onboarding.

Want to learn more? Let’s talk!

Our team is available to chat with you about your organization, your leadership style, and the process included in our recruiting services. Confidentiality is guaranteed. Click the button below to get started today!

Testimonials

  • “Maggie has the incredible ability to walk into an unfamiliar business and quickly learn and assess how to support the leaders of the organization and their priorities in the most meaningful ways. In less than a year, Maggie built our organization’s Chief of Staff team from the ground up, supporting our President and leadership team with responsibilities including strategic planning, business preparation, communications, employee programs, and events.

    A fabulous communicator and problem solver, Maggie was a huge asset to our team. I cannot recommend her enough, especially to businesses that need an infusion of structure and organization at their most senior level; you will love working with her!”

    — James Kirby, Senior Vice President of Sales, T-Mobile Business Group

  • “Maggie did a great job keeping myself and my leadership team organized and on track, enabling us to drive important business initiatives forward far more efficiently. She immediately brought a level of professionalism, visibility, prioritization, and rhythm to our team using tools and processes that she created just for us based on her assessment of our needs and communication with our leaders.

    Strategic and proactive, Maggie consistently shared recommendations with me for new concepts, roles, and programs to drive the leadership team and the organization’s employee culture forward. Her team had me better prepared for business meetings and events than ever before, which helped me maximize my time and focus on what is most important. I am confident that the addition of Maggie will elevate you and your leadership team.”

    — Mike Katz, President, T-Mobile Business Group

  • “Maggie works with amazing speed, and is able to take in and process a lot of information to help guide where she spends her time and energy. Her collaborative approach and contagious energy make people want to work with her, which allows her to drive change and constant improvement.

    She is genuine and sincere, which when combined with her undeniable intelligence, make her an ideal modern leader. When you work with Maggie, you honestly never know if or when something goes wrong because she always keeps things moving forward. You can trust that no matter what adversity comes along, Maggie will succeed and make sure to bring those around her along for the ride.”

    — Tanner Moxcey, Director, Nordstrom

  • “In the several years I worked with Maggie, she demonstrated a versatility and orientation for action that is rare and valued in any role, but particularly so in her capacity leading business planning for senior executives at T-Mobile. She built her function and team from the ground up, quickly developing sound but flexible processes and systems that enabled one of T-Mobile’s fastest growing organizations to scale quickly and efficiently.

    From communications to org. design, event planning to employee engagement, Maggie can throw herself at nearly any challenge and emerge victorious. But her real superpower is her ability to connect with people in a way that fosters collaboration and inspires action – she brings an infectious positivity and energy to the table, and it amplifies everything she touches!”

    — Alice Williams, Chief of Staff to CEO, T-Mobile

FAQ

  • Absolutely. Organizations across all industries can benefit from a Chief of Staff. Whether in startups, corporate environments, nonprofits, or government, a CoS helps align leadership priorities, streamline operations, and drive strategic initiatives, ensuring the organization achieves its goals efficiently.

  • A Chief of Staff is a CEO or Founder’s right hand, their strategic thought partner, who is focused on the leader’s priorities. A CoS can manage large scale projects, create and implement strategic plans, and facilitate high-level meetings and engagements. Chiefs of Staff are masters of follow through and are highly organized, and depending on the size and needs of the business, they may also oversee functions like employee culture, operations, or HR.

    A Chief of Staff allows a CEO or Founder to stay focused on their vision— the “what,” while the CoS steps in to focus on the execution—the “how.” Chiefs of Staff drive organizational clarity by helping lead an effective Rhythm of Business, removing friction & roadblocks, driving process & efficiency, strategic planning, resourcing, and many other capabilities, all dependent on what the business needs.

  • CEOs or Founders often turn to hiring a CoS when they realize that they are spending too much time on tactical, executionary items like planning, tracking, and follow up tasks, and not enough time on the strategic, visionary items necessary to guide their business. Additionally, CEOs or Founders often feel they are missing the organizational rigor in their operating rhythm, business planning, and preparedness.

    A CoS can step in and take executional and operational items off your plate, drive priorities and transparency, ensure your leadership team is focused in the same direction, and create and lead operating cadence/rhythm of business, all leading to greater organizational clarity and focus.

  • Executive Assistants and CoS both support CEOs or Founders, and at first glance it may be hard to understand the difference: both drive organization and focus, and keeping the CEO / Founder prepared is of utmost importance. However, an EA is focused on highly detailed tasks including expenses, travel, meeting and scheduling logistics, and often personal errands and support for their leader. The CoS is a senior level leader, who is a strategic thought partner to the business leader, and may act as their proxy in certain situations. A CoS can manage complex company wide initiatives, lead large teams, oversee operational aspects of the business, and drive strategic planning at a high level.

    COOs and CoS are both strategic, senior leadership roles focused on major company initiatives, but the key difference between the two is that the COO is focused on the overall health of the total business, where the CoS is a role truly designed to support the CEO or Founder and their specific priorities. This includes CEO communications support, priorities alignment and driving, and more. The CoS role is more behind the scenes than the COO, which is more of an outward facing role.