MEET THE FOUNDER
Barbie Adler, Selective Search Founder & President
Barbie Adler left a successful career as an executive recruiter to launch Selective Search, combining her experience recruiting top talent with her passion for helping extraordinary people find love.
Barbie is a national expert on dating and relationships. In addition to consulting on national dating-related television programs, Barbie has appeared in Forbes, Fortune, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and CNN. She is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award nominee, a former Board Member of the Starlight Children’s Foundation, and the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), a global peer-to-peer organization.
A message from Barbie
Nearly 25 years ago, I decided to expand on my career in executive search and apply the proven principles of executive recruiting to personal search by focusing on matters of the heart. After all, to love and to be loved is the most important and powerful of all human emotions.
With this as my goal I created Selective Search, a company where executive search meets personal matchmaking. With over 4,000 happy couples and an industry high 87% success rate we are the nation’s leading boutique matchmaking firm.
What started as a dream designed to improve the quality of people’s lives, has evolved into a substantial practice supported by innovation and an unparalleled staff of world-class professionals. Our Meet Your Future process includes over 225 data points and is proprietary, as is our private network of over 250,000 quality candidates. All of this combined with a sophisticated algorithm and over 150 years of combined matchmaking intuition have created a service that is unrivaled in the industry today.
Every day we receive an outpouring of stories from Selective Search couples who are happy in love; getting engaged, getting married and sharing photos of beautiful babies and blended families. To hear these stories, and to see these pictures is to feel the love that we put into every introduction. It is the most fulfilling and gratifying feeling I could have ever hoped to experience, and I am blessed to feel that every day. It is this feeling that fuels me and motivates our staff to be the very best.
If you are someone that has everything in life, except for what matters most – love; I invite you to call us or start your journey here. It’s time to meet the love of your life.
Barbie Adler, Founder & President
Barbie founded Selective Search, an executive matchmaking service, with the notion of pairing her experience in executive search and became a headhunter of the heart.
The Story of Selective Search
At Selective Search, we believe in the magic of a perfectly matched partnership. Our origin story is a testament to this belief, born out of a desire to transform the landscape of luxury dating and professional matchmaking.
“For me, business is personal. Everything we do is with deep care and integrity. We are creating legacies…we are literally changing lives.”
— Barbie Adler, Founder & President of Selective Search
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