Esmina brings unparalleled project management and relationship building skills to every client engagement at Pearl Street Collective and Hollander Search. She executes tailored recruiting processes to identify Deans and faculty members for academic nursing clients. Her work extends to select nonprofit clients in education and foreign relations as well.

Given her entrepreneurial nature, Esmina has been instrumental in the successful launch of several boutique firms during her twenty year career in executive search. Her accomplishments include building and leading a team of account managers and researchers for corporate clients across consumer products, chemical, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and professional services; and creating and deploying diversity hiring initiatives for Fortune 500 clients. 

Esmina received her bachelor’s in English from Loyola University. Originally from Montenegro, she is fluent in Serbo-Croatian and lives with her family in a Chicago suburb.