ABOUT THE FIRM
FirstWave Talent Strategies
Elite talent. Strategic leadership. Purpose-driven impact.
FirstWave Talent Strategies is an elite talent recruitment firm dedicated to placing leaders who demonstrate strong character, competence, and sound judgment. We partner with organizations that see leadership as a strategic advantage and understand that leadership placement affects performance, culture, and long-term credibility.
Our work extends beyond placements. We operate at the intersection of leadership judgment, organizational complexity, and execution. We invest in the growth of both veteran and civilian professionals and hold ourselves accountable for the quality and consistency of every engagement. Everything we do is grounded in our mission to Recruit Leaders That Move Industries.
Our Values
Faith - Leading with conviction, humility, and purpose.
Trust - We do what we say. We protect what we build. We earn trust every day.
Leadership - Setting a standard through accountability, discipline, and discernment.
Excellence - Done right. Repeated consistently.
Our Purpose
FirstWave Talent Strategies exists to recruit leaders who move industries by connecting visionary organizations with elite professionals who execute with discipline, display sound judgment, and deliver results at scale. Who you place influences performance, culture, and credibility long after the contract is signed.
ABOUT ME
Dr. Anthony C.
Jones
Dr. Anthony C. Jones is a strategic leader and retired U.S. Air Force veteran with over two decades of experience leading, advising, and developing organizations in high-stakes, mission-critical environments. His career spans executive leadership, organizational development, and talent strategy, with a disciplined focus on trust, accountability, and excellence.
Dr. Jones earned his Doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University’s School of Business & Leadership, where his work centered on leadership judgment, organizational culture, complex problem-solving, conflict negotiation, and effective decision-making.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Jones has taught, developed, and advised hundreds of leaders and professionals. He has led teams through transformation and uncertainty and designed high-trust remote and hybrid operating models that maintain accountability, decision quality, and performance.
Through this experience, he has observed how leadership insecurity and poor judgment can quietly diminish talent. He has seen capable individuals overlooked or constrained—not due to a lack of ability, but because those entrusted to lead were unequipped to lead them. These experiences shaped a firm conviction that leadership carries a responsibility to recognize, develop, and protect talent.
FirstWave Talent Strategies was founded to bring that conviction to practice by creating environments where individuals are placed intentionally, evaluated fairly, and positioned to perform, grow, and endure.
Beyond his executive role, Dr. Jones serves as a strategic advisor to a nonprofit organization. He stays actively involved in professional leadership and executive communities and applies his leadership philosophy in youth sports, focusing on discipline, accountability, and character development at the grassroots level.