Barbie Adler, founder and president of Selective Search, an executive-matchmaking firm. Over 20 years ago, Barbie decided to expand on her 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 her goal, she created Selective Search, a firm where executive recruiting meets personal matchmaking. Eighteen hundred marriages (and counting), over 500 babies and countless happy relationships later, Selective Search is North America’s leading boutique matchmaking firm, with an 87% success rate, the industry’s highest.

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Barbie Adler is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Connect with her through LinkedIn.