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WE ARE A COMPREHENSIVE CAREER COACHING, SOLUTIONS, AND SERVICES COMPANY

With the support of our career marketing team, our clients stay ahead of the competition and achieve their personal career agenda without sacrificing other work demands and personal goals.

When setbacks occur, clients come to us for help with course correction and get back on track quickly.

With the private and confidential Waterman Hurst team by their side, our clients have expert guidance and resources to overcome constraints and limit the stress that comes along with driving career success.

OUR FULL SERVICE OFFERINGS INCLUDE

OUR CLIENTS ARE CEOs, BOARD MEMBERS, C-LEVEL AND EMERGING LEADERS 

Hear our clients talk about their career experiences, outcomes, and journey during and after their engagements with Waterman Hurst   

SOME REASONS LEADERS HIRE US:

Design or redesign their career strategy and/or career marketing communications 

  • expertise to build their strategy and message given new goals

  • help on building plans and obtaining research

  • help to rewrite their resume, profile, biography and marketing letters

  • image and/or communications analysis for expert refinement

Execute a strategic career/job change.   

  • move from private to public or reverse

  • change roles

  • change size of company

  • change geographies

  • obtain their first CEO or C-level role

  • change industries

A previous job search didn’t generate the results that they wanted.

  • want more viable options and offers

  • a shorter search

  • a broader network

  • coaching and intelligence to make the right decision

  • learning on how to best promote themselves

Attain the next level of responsibility and wealth.

  • expert advice on what it will take to get to the next level

  • a comprehensive plan to achieve goals

  • internal navigation and negotiation support

  • external options – understand what is possible

Accelerate career momentum.

  • need root cause analysis and private feedback

  • expert and authentic advice

  • coaching to try out new behaviors

  • support to make change happen

  • learning on how to best promote themselves

Career repair is required.

  • find themselves on the outs or in between and want to understand why

  • put a plan in place to change opinions, rebuild and recover

  • understand how to manage the message

  • get beyond their existing reputation

Obtain a board role from a position of strength.  

  • prepare for a very different kind of search

  • build a plan to land their first board position

WE ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS OUR CLIENTS’ SUCCESS*

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achieve their defined goals

rehire us

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refer friends and relatives

 *These numbers are based upon the success rate of clients over the last 5 years. We cannot guarantee or predict future individual outcomes.

See more client milestone and success rates on our FAQ page

SOME OF OUR CLIENTS WORK HERE:

CLIENT INTRODUCTIONS AND A SOURCE OF TALENT FOR MANY

Allen Austin
Advantage Capital Partners
Allergan
American Securities
Arsenal Capital Partners
Aurora
Bath & Body Works
Boston Consulting Group
Bridgepoint
Capstone
Charter Communications
Chrystal Calital Partners
ClearChannel
Cognizant
CVC Capital Partners
Diageo
Disney
ExxonMobil
Fox
General Atlantic
GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)
Herbert Mines Associates
Hitachi
IBM
Insight Venture Partners
Invacare
James and Company
Johns-Manville
Kohlberg and Company
Lyondel Basel
Marlin Hawk
McCann-Erickson
McDermott & Bull
MeadJohnson Nutrition
Morgan Samuels
NetApp
NFL
Nike
Norwest Venture Partners
OmnicomGroup
Peak Rock Capital
PerkinElmer
Platinum Equity
PolyOne
Red Herring
RSR Partners
Salesforce
Scientific Atlanta
Sony
Starbucks
Sterling National Bank
Sybase
The Blackstone Group
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Time Warner Cable
TPG Capital
Unilever
Verizon
Warburg Pincus LLC
ZRG Partners
Accel-KKR
Advent International
American Capital
AOL
Associated Press
Avon
Battalia Winston
Boyden
Brookfield Asset Management
Cardinal Health
Chartwell Partners
Cisco
Cleversafe
Comcast
Deloitte
Dick’s Sporting Goods
Diversified Search
Facebook
Francisco Partners
Greylock Partners
H.I.G. Capital
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HomeAdvisor
IDG Capital
Intel
Isaacson Miller
JM Search
Juniper Networks
Korn Ferry
Madison Industries
Martin Marietta
McCormick and Bull
McKinsey & Company
Microsoft
Myers Industries Inc.
Netflix
NGS Global
Nokia
Oak Hill Capital Partners
ON Partners
Pepperidge Farm
Philips
Platte River Equity
Providence Equity Partners
Riviera Partners
RTI Surgical
Samsung
Sheffield Haworth
Spencer Stuart
Starz
Summit Partners
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
The Carlyle Group
Thoma Bravo
TJX
Transearch
University of California, San Francisco
Viacom
Westwood Partners
Zsi-Foster

Accenture
Aegis
American Indsutrial Partners
Apax Partners
Audax Private Equity
Bain Capital Private Equity
Berkshire Partners
BrandSafway
Caldwell
Cerebus Capital Management
Chiquita
Clayton, Dublier and Rice
Coca Cola
Crist/Kolder Associates
DHR International
Dish Network
Egon Zehnder
First Reserve
Gartner
Gryphon Investors
Heidrick & Struggles
Hewlett-Packard
Howard Fischer Associates
Imagination Worldwide
International Data Group
ISS
JMI Equity
Kaye/Bassman
L Catterton
Major, Lindsey & Africa
Mattel
McCormick Group
Mead
Mizuho
NBC
New Mountain Capital
Nielsen
Nomura
Odgers Berndtson
Paccar
Pepsi
Pinterest
Polycom
Red Bull
Royal Bank of Scotland
Russell Reynolds Associates
Savvis
Silver Lake
SPMB
Sterling Group
Sun Capital Partners, Inc.
TD Bank
The Stevenson Group
TIME
TowerBrook Capital Partners
TritonExec
VeriSign
Vsita Equity Group
Ziff Davis

 

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40 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897
Telephone: 203-761-9400