MIKE SUDERMANN is a highly accomplished executive recruiter & career transition specialist who places top tier talent with companies around the world. He is the Founder and CEO of the award-winning full-service executive search firm, Ascent Select Executive Search & Outplacement. He has personally reviewed over eighty thousand resumes, worked with thousands of executives, and made more than three hundred placements.

ASCENT Select Executive Search helps companies hire great talent quickly without sacrificing quality.  ASCENT Select specializes in Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain within the Retail and Food Industries.

Unique to ASCENT Select is our team of veteran executive recruiters located domestically and Internationally, enabling our teams to provides search services literally 24-hours per day. This reduces the time our clients need to fill a position by 50% compared to other search firms, savings companies tens of thousands in position vacancy costs. Additionally, we provide a unique candidate presentation guarantee and a 99% Candidate Acceptance rate. 

In addition, Mike founded and created Advantage Outplacement Academy a market-leading career transition program for professionals at all levels. This enables companies to provide outplacement services to employees that are downsized to help them land quickly while at the same time, substantially reduces the company's risks for wrongful termination lawsuits, reduces insurance costs, reduces potential bad press and improves productivity and future talent acquisition. 

Mike is an Amazon best-selling author of The Executive Leap, is an industry speaker, and has a daily podcast called The Executive Leap.