Executive Search

Our executive search processes are specifically designed to meet the needs of owner managed and family businesses. The difference starts with our 100% success guarantee and our fee schedule which requests the last payment at the end of the first year after hiring, once the hiring executive and the person hired agree that the match is good for both parties.

Like many top search firms, we skillfully locate qualified executives. The elements that set us apart are the efforts we devote, the proprietary process we use to understanding the company culture, our plan for success, and the post hiring coaching we provide to ensure the owner receives the expected success from this significant change.

The typical search firm business model is to provide three qualified candidates, let the hiring executives make the choice, collect a fee, and then leave the scene.

This mode of operations might be right for large corporations used to interchangeable executives, but is lacking for private businesses where transitions are more personal and the impact of failed hiring can be  devastating. (According to published reports, the fact that most search firms do not want you to know is that 40% of hired executives do not last 18 months! READ MORE)

Personal Transition Planning

Running a business requires total commitment which can result in great rewards including prestige, structure, identity, and meaning. No wonder it is so hard for an owner to let go, drop the reins, sell the business, or transition it to successors such as other executives and potential buyers.

In any transition, the owner is faced with this issue: “What will replace the satisfying life I now know?” Rather than a positive vision of life after transition, most owners experience concern and fear because they don’t believe life will be as involving and satisfying after a business transition.

Unless these fears are addressed and replaced with a positive view of a meaningful future, the owner’s emotions will often undermine changes that might build the business or increase his or her wealth.

Personal Transition Planning is a logical, step by step process that helps the owner uncover his or her deeper needs and interests and plan for an exciting new life.

We offer this process when it appears it is necessary for the success of an anticipated executive placement or to plan for the transition to a successor or buyer.