Executive & Mid-management Search
Companies facing the challenge of a major inflection point require an adaptive leader with a specific blend of temperament, skills, and experiences. We combine direct corporate experience, a lean executive search process, and a proven executive assessment to reliably identify the leadership DNA to successfully navigate these situations. The adaptive executive who consistently aligns individual, organizational, institutional, and cultural factors creates a shared purpose to effect change. We integrate a comprehensive and validated assessment process into our search for a highly reliable and lasting placement.
Initial success of a new leader is highly dependent on how easily they, along with their staff and the board (or direct manager), can adapt to the change of leadership. Our milestone-based Adaptive Leadership Transitions process accelerates team effectiveness and sets up improvement in corporate performance.
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Board Search
Corporate performance is highly influenced by the strength of an effective board. We are trusted advisors to boards that are looking to evolve, assisting them in the recruitment of one or more new directors for succession and to improve strategic alignment.
Ensuring Effectiveness from Search-to-Results
The majority of executive search firms figuratively drop the candidate off the front door to the new company and wish them well. We take success seriously and extend the search process to assist a new executive, their direct manager, and their team beyond traditional onboarding. Under the traditional onborading approach, data shows that ~40% of executive transitions fail to meet expectations within the first 18 months. As we can attest from the outset of virtually every new search assignment, Boards and hiring executives are looking for a new leader to make changes. This means that both the executive and his/her team are managing through the effects of a leadership transition.
Many organizations fail to provide the necessary support to the new executive (and team) during this critical transition period. Our Adaptive Leadership Transitions™ process is validated in practice and accelerates a new leader and his/her team through milestones critical to a successful leadership transition. Our process expands the typical “onboarding” with the most pragmatic and business-relevant approach in the search industry. See more about this process under our Consulting services tab.
Executive & Mid-management Team Build-outs and Succession Pipeline
The lifeblood of an organization is adaptive talent. Most organizations struggle to effectively manage talent and organizational development. Through a strategic partnership with our clients to perform continuous pipeline recruiting, we provide them with a pipleine of talent to build a unique competitive advantage: a continous stream of better leaders. We also excel at working with our private equity clients on complete leadership team build-outs at the start of a newly acquired portfolio company or when necessary at an inflection point.
