Filling vacancies a high priority for O’Neill Consulting

PBN Fastest Growing Companies 2022
4. $250,000 to $5 MILLION: O’Neill Consulting Group Inc.
CEO (or equivalent): Kevin O’Neill, founder and managing partner
2021 revenue: $4.5 million
2019 revenue: $2.6 million
Revenue growth: 74.4%


RECRUITING QUALITY CANDIDATES can be risky business, even in the best of times.

But when COVID-19 flattened the global economy – and many companies’ profits in 2020 – O’Neill Consulting Group Inc. kept clients front and center.

“We ran into the burning building while others were departing,” said Kevin O’Neill, managing partner of the South Kingstown-based firm he founded in 2004. “It was more about getting back to the basics.”

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That meant traveling when no one else was, meeting clients face to face to discuss talent-search needs for senior- and mid-level management roles in various sectors, including private equity and front-line producers such as those in the consumer goods and health care ­industries.

As markets recover, so are revenues. Last year, O’Neill Consulting generated $4.5 million in revenue. Growing confidence is renewing interest in filling vacancies that have been dormant since the pandemic hiring freezes, as well as creating new roles to meet emerging post-pandemic needs.