Career Services and Private Job/Board Search

Career Services and Private Job Search are offered for private leadership clients: CEOs/Presidents, Established Leaders, and Emerging Leaders. Board Search Services are offered for CEOs/Presidents.

Our coaching and services focus on both career and leadership development, as we believe leadership success occurs when individual goals and organizational goals align. We provide assessment, strategy, skill building, branding, coaching and promotion services to enhance leadership ability and skills as well as develop each leader’s short and long term career potential for promotability and career fulfillment. We work with Board Members, CEOs, C-Suite, Established and Emerging Leaders.

SOME REASONS PRIVATE 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

Career Leader Branding

Collaborate with experts to ensure your professional message, story and goals are highly visible, give you a competitive edge, and align with your goals

  • Message

  • Story

  • Resume

  • LinkedIn Profile

  • Headshot

  • Board Biography (if applicable)

James Whitemore
Chief Marketing Officer
Technology Industry, Colorado

Private Job/Board Search Preparation

Services to prepare you for a strategic and successful comprehensive job/board search

  • Goal Setting

  • Market and Competitive Intelligence

  • Message

  • Positioning

  • Detailed Marketing Execution Plan

  • Complete Contact Lists

  • Resume, LinkedIn Profile, Marketing Letter

  • Biography

  • Headshot

  • Interview and Networking Preparation

  • LinkedIn Training

Rick Stepien

Chief Executive Officer

Industrial Sector, Michigan

360 Degree Reference Report

To identify unique competitive advantages, validate goals and marketing messages, and confirm reference list for search

  • 8 Reference Calls

  • Summary Report and Consultation

Chris Fay
Executive Vice President
Marketing Services Industry, Illinois

Marketing Execution

Utilize our networks and marketing expertise for your career

  • 12 weeks of introductions for key meetings, leads, opportunities and interviews

  • Strategy Coaching

  • Ongoing Networking Coaching

  • Interview and Networking Preparation

  • Interview Research

  • Navigation coaching to “get to yes”

  • Negotiation coaching

  • Decision Support

Job Search Coaching

10 weeks of additional support and services

  • Interview and Networking Preparation

  • Interview Research

  • Coaching to “get to yes”

  • Negotiation coaching

  • Decision Support

Rick Phillips
Executive Vice President
Entertainment Industry, California

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