Foundation
Executive Positioning
6-Week Engagement
A focused reset of your executive brand and market approach.
- Career assessment & discovery
- Executive resume & biography
- LinkedIn optimization
- Target company list (40+)
- Recruiter outreach playbook
Executive Reverse Recruiting
Your executive search — run for you, by search professionals.
A discreet, fully managed job search service for senior executives. We position your leadership brand, open the hidden job market, engage recruiters and hiring managers on your behalf, and negotiate the offer that ends the search well.
What Is Reverse Recruiting
The recruiter works for you — not the employer.
In traditional recruiting, the search firm is retained by — and accountable to — the hiring company. The executive is one of many candidates being evaluated.
In reverse recruiting, the dynamic is inverted. You retain us. We become your search team. We map the market on your behalf, activate our recruiter and hiring-manager networks, engineer your positioning, and drive the process from first outreach to signed offer.
It is the executive-search discipline turned inward — applied to your career with the same rigor a Fortune 500 board expects for a CEO hire.
Traditional Recruiter
- Paid by the hiring company
- Presents candidates to their client
- You are one of many
- Loyal to the mandate, not you
Reverse Recruiter
- Paid by you, the executive
- Presents opportunities to you
- You are the only client
- Loyal to your career outcome
Who We Help
Built for executives — not for the open market.
C-Suite Executives
CEOs, COOs, CFOs and functional chiefs seeking their next stage — quietly, strategically, and without disturbing current tenure.
Senior Vice Presidents
SVPs and VPs targeting a step-change move: greater scope, better sector fit, or a defining P&L opportunity.
High-Performing Directors
Directors and Managing Directors ready to break into the executive tier and compete for VP and C-suite mandates.
Executives in Transition
Leaders post-acquisition, post-exit, or repositioning after board-level change — needing a discreet, structured re-entry.
Cross-Sector Movers
Executives translating expertise into a new industry, geography, or business model — where positioning is everything.
Global & Return Executives
Repats, expats and cross-border leaders navigating unfamiliar market dynamics and executive search ecosystems.
The Success Roadmap
Twelve stages, one outcome.
A structured methodology refined across hundreds of senior placements — from career diagnosis to signed offer.
01
Career Assessment & Discovery
A structured diagnostic of your leadership brand, career equity, target market and non-negotiables. We define what next chapter is worth pursuing before we pursue it.
02
Executive Resume & Biography
A board-ready executive resume, one-page value proposition, and executive biography — engineered around your strongest evidence of leadership impact.
03
LinkedIn Optimization
Full rewrite of your LinkedIn profile — headline, About, Featured, Experience and keywords — calibrated to search-firm algorithms and executive recruiter behavior.
04
Target Company Strategy
A curated list of 40 to 80 target organizations where your leadership profile is a distinctive fit, prioritized by opportunity, culture and growth trajectory.
05
Hidden Job Market Access
Systematic surfacing of roles never posted publicly — through search-firm relationships, board networks and executive intelligence rarely available to individual candidates.
06
Networking Strategy
A structured, high-yield networking program: warm introductions, targeted informational meetings, and board-level relationship building on your behalf.
07
Executive Recruiter Outreach
Direct engagement with retained search firms and executive recruiters most active in your sector and function — professionally, on your terms.
08
Hiring Manager Outreach
Discreet, senior-to-senior outreach to hiring executives, board chairs and investors — positioning you as a considered candidate before a search is formalized.
09
Application Management
We manage the full application pipeline — tracking, tailoring, and prioritizing — so every submission is intentional and every response is followed through.
10
Executive Interview Coaching
Board-level interview preparation: competency, case, panel and CEO interviews rehearsed with real search-firm frameworks and behavioral rigor.
11
Offer Negotiation
Structured negotiation of the full offer envelope — base, bonus, LTIs, equity, sign-on, severance, board rights — advocated on your behalf.
12
Salary & Compensation Benchmarking
Independent benchmarking against sector, stage and geography — so you enter every conversation with defensible, data-anchored expectations.
The Hidden Job Market
70% of executive roles are never advertised.
The most consequential leadership opportunities move through retained search firms, board networks, private-equity portfolios and investor introductions — long before (and often instead of) any public posting.
Our reverse recruiting practice is built on those same channels. We bring you into them.
70%
Executive roles never posted
40+
Retained search-firm relationships
4-9
Months to signed offer
94%
Client engagement completion
Engagement Packages
Three engagements, matched to your search.
All engagements begin with a confidential consultation and a written scope. Investment discussed privately after mandate alignment.
Signature
Fully Managed Search
6-Month Engagement
Our flagship — we run your search as a retained mandate on your behalf.
- Everything in Positioning
- Hidden job market access
- Recruiter & hiring manager outreach
- Application management
- Interview coaching (unlimited)
- Offer & salary negotiation
Executive+
C-Suite & Board
12-Month Partnership
For CEO, CxO and board-level mandates requiring long-horizon strategy.
- Everything in Signature
- Board-seat strategy & positioning
- Executive coaching (integrated)
- First-100-days integration support
- Ongoing market intelligence briefings
Frequently Asked Questions
What executives ask before engaging us.
Traditional recruiters work for the hiring company. Reverse recruiters work exclusively for you — the executive. We conduct your job search with the same rigor, research and network activation a retained search firm brings to a corporate mandate.
Career coaches advise. We execute. In addition to strategy, we personally run outreach, manage applications, engage recruiters and hiring managers, and negotiate offers on your behalf — a fully managed search service.
Yes — with your explicit approval on every organization. All outreach is senior-level, discreet, and positioned to protect your current tenure and reputation.
Executive searches average 4 to 9 months from engagement to signed offer, depending on seniority and market. Our Signature program is a six-month engagement with defined milestones each month.
Confidentiality is absolute. Every engagement operates under NDA, coded project references, and communication protocols designed to protect executives in active roles.
No credible advisor can guarantee an outcome — but we do guarantee the rigor of the process. Our Signature and Executive+ programs include extension provisions if a placement is not secured within the initial engagement window.
Your Next Chapter
The most important search of your career deserves a team of its own.
Speak with our principals about a confidential reverse recruiting engagement. All first conversations are held under strict discretion.