Ethos Consulting, LLC is a management consulting firm dedicated to improving leadership teams.

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In 1992, Conrad co-founded Ethos Consulting and evolved it into a management consulting firm. In 2006 he first became associated with Vistage International as an approved speaker. In 2008 he became a Vistage Chair in the Phoenix Metro area. He now focuses on group facilitation of CEOs and Presidents for Vistage. In addition he provides board facilitation and top management strategic consulting as it pertains to organizational performance. Specific services include advising companies on the “value stream” in integrating the processes of recruiting, on boarding, and retaining great talent. He also coaches C-level executives (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMOs, etc.) seeking to make career transitions. He is the innovator behind the “Management by Expectations” model which is at the core of all of the Ethos Consulting-based advisory services. Only on a select basis will he collaborate with Amy Frink in the management of retainer based executive searches focused on top management.

Prior to Ethos Consulting, Conrad was a Managing Partner with Heidrick & Struggles, a major global search firm. In addition to managing the San Francisco office and his personal search practice, he served on the Executive and Operating Committees. As Chairman of the Asia Task Force, he was responsible for opening and managing the Tokyo office as well.

The first four years of Conrad's search career were with Arthur Young Executive Resource Consultants, a subsidiary of Arthur Young, where he rose to Managing Director of the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest Practice. In the course of his career since 1982, he has been retained on more than 300 searches in more than a dozen industries. Earlier in his career, he was a strategic management consultant with Booz•Allen & Hamilton in San Francisco and an investment banker with The First Boston Corporation, now Credit Suisse, in New York.

Conrad has a Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. In addition, as a Rotary International Fellow he earned certificates from the University of Zurich and the Graduate School of Public Administration in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He speaks English, German and French.