Founder & CEO, H Two National
Leo Turley is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of H Two National, a commercial real estate executive search firm placing senior leaders across multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and hospitality portfolios nationwide. Over a 42-year career in executive recruiting, he has completed more than 5,000 placements and built a proprietary candidate database of 254,000+ commercial real estate professionals.
Four Decades in Executive Search
Leo entered the recruiting profession in 1984 at the age of 24 and learned the craft through traditional retained search. In 1991, he founded Huntington Partners and served as President and Managing Partner for 27 years, building a national reputation for direct-outreach recruiting in commercial real estate. In 2018, he dissolved Huntington Partners to launch H Two National with a tighter focus on senior CRE leadership mandates and a refined search methodology.
CRE Asset-Class Expertise
Leo personally leads searches across every major commercial real estate asset class:
- Multifamily & affordable housing — C-suite, regional, and asset-management leadership for portfolios of 1,000+ units
- Office & industrial — leasing executives, asset managers, acquisition leads, and portfolio CFOs
- Retail & mixed-use — development directors, leasing VPs, and property operations heads
- Hospitality — general manager, regional director, and corporate development roles
- Property management & services — division presidents, regional VPs, and senior operations leadership
Search Methodology
Leo built H Two National around a direct-outreach methodology that consistently produces qualified candidate shortlists within seven days and average placement timelines of 60 to 90 days. Each search is led personally rather than handed to junior recruiters, and every candidate is screened against the client’s specific mandate before presentation. The firm’s RecruitPlus subscription model gives ongoing-hire clients a continuous pipeline rather than transactional fills.
Industry Affiliations
H Two National holds active memberships in the National Affordable Housing Management Association (NAHMA), the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks (NAIOP), the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). These affiliations support direct relationships with the asset-class trade bodies that govern H Two National’s recruiting verticals.
Recognition & Voice
Leo is the author of the firm’s annual Commercial Real Estate Compensation Guide, the only CRE-search-firm-published benchmark covering base, bonus, and total compensation across multifamily, office, industrial, retail, and hospitality roles. He has been quoted on CRE talent strategy in industry conversations on the Art of Storytelling podcast series and contributes original analysis on retention, executive culture fit, and the future of CRE leadership hiring.
Contact
Direct line: 724.640.5118
Office: 704.275.3300 ext. 2
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/leoturley
Beyond the Office
Leo and his wife of 46 years live in Waxhaw, North Carolina, and are the proud parents of four children and seven grandchildren. When he’s not running searches, you’ll find him on the screened-in patio when it’s raining, behind the wheel of his Duramax diesel, or out on his Yamaha FJR1300ES in Liquid Graphite. He still hasn’t figured out what he wants to be when he grows up — but after 42 years, the chocolate hasn’t run out and neither has the work.