Peter D. Leffkowitz
CEO
Since 1986, Peter Leffkowitz has trained 60,000 recruiters worldwide and has been invited in-house, to evaluate, gut and reposition 700+ search firms, into what many consider to be the Who’s Who of the staffing industry. In addition to leading Morgan 20/20 Search, he is the Founder and CEO of the Morgan Consulting Group (www.morgancg.com), the most respected international training firm to the world of high performance contingent and contract consulting firms, having mentored some of the highest billing producers in the executive search industry.In 1986, after 5 years of record breaking performance at one of the largest Midwestern search firms, Peter developed Morgan Methodology. He realized that techniques in the placement industry were primarily based on “pitching people jobs”, rather than gathering honest candidate opinions and career wish lists, prior to exposing them to an opportunity. It was “bait and switch”, rather than listen and fulfill. He did the same thing on the client side, developing empathy for the long term goals of a department head, then bringing them the human tools necessary to reach their personal managerial goals inside their firms. It was all about “healing” personal career and corporate wounds. Blending this with his reputation of brutal honesty and acute people reading skills, he magnetized a group of clients, now 2,700 staffing firms, strong.
He is the first and only consultant to the industry that has established a training campus designed for corporate and 3rd party recruiters and their management. Tall Pony Ranch, on the outskirts of Kansas City, hosts a 75 acre executive retreat visited by an average of 1500 Talent Acquisition specialists per year. For 3 days, they are trapped in log cabins buried in an oak forest and don’t come out until they are meaningful recruiters. From that point on, their success depends on their companies’ managerial follow through.
Now, at 54, Peter has decided to return to the front lines of search and has let the industry know of his intentions. Some of the strongest players in the industry have come out to become a part of his legacy team. He has chosen his partners in Jennifer Spicher and Phillip Guillen to launch Morgan 20/20 and support them in the building of a totally unique offering of advanced skills to our clients.
Peter is one of the most sought after speakers for corporate Talent Acquisition teams in North America and Japan and offers his training services to the search clients of Morgan 20/20, as a compliment to their trust in Morgan 20/20’s search services. He has the ability to razor sharpen the interviewing edge and non e-boarding sourcing skills of a corporate recruiting team, allowing them to skillfully compete with the 3rd party world.
Peter and his wife, Cindy, parents of 3 sons and a daughter, live in Kansas City, Missouri, on their 75 acre Tall Pony Ranch. Peter has had a lifelong commitment to training and selling, gaited, mountain trail horses and enjoys working his ranch with teams of draft horses.